A Directory of Great Architectures
A Directory of Great Architectures
The new faculty building for the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan has been awarded as the first World Building of the Year at the inaugural World Architecture 2008 in Barcelona last week. According to the Festival director Paul Finch, the…
Foster + Partners has won the best ‘New and Old’ category for its Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard during WAF (World Architecure Festival) 2008 in Barcelona, Spain. The judge mentioned the Smithsonian Institution as ‘an exquisite example’ of the insertion…
Situated in New York City, the 23 East 22nd Street Residential High-Rise building is the first OMA’s tower in the city. The construction is expected to be completed in 2010 and it will rise to 107m high which offers views…
Designed by Morphogenesis, the Pearl Academy of Fashion is created as a sustainabale building by combining traditional technic and modern technology. From the outside, the building look simple with cubic shape. It’s located in Jaipur, India and adopting the traditional…
Jægersborg Water Tower was converted into a mixed-use building, an interesting idea. The architect who had responsibility to design the project was Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Aps as a result of a competition in 2004. It’s sited on 5,370 sqm of…
Designed by Todd Saunders & Tommie Wilhelmsen with “nature first and architecture second” of design concept, the Aurland Look Out is a dramatic bridge sited 640m over Aurland, Norway. The structure is 4 m wide, 30 long, and 9m high…
A special committee of the Library’s Board of Trustees has chosen Foster + Partners to design New Central Library for New York City. The project aims to transform The New York Public Library’s historic building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd…
Sited at Pittsburgh, USA, the Three PNC Plaza will be the next green skycraper in town. It’s designed by Gensler and expected to open in early 2009 as a sustainable mixed-use tower in the U.S. complete with its LEED crertification.…
