‘Scientific Center,’ Project by Kois Associated Architects
Kois Associated architects goal was to create an artificial elevated dreamy landscape which combined functionality with aesthetic poetics, a centre which will be the landmark and the backdrop to the city. The emirate of Umm Al Quwain is located just 40 kilometres from Dubai, and is a place of rich history full of ancient villages and archaeological sites, which contrasts Dubai’s architecture.
The project site, located at the fringe of the proposed master plan.The program of the project called for a hybrid of a scientific centre and a conference centre. The scientific centre would promote the sciences and inform about the latest advancements in technology. The conference centre would accommodate conferences and conventions from all over the emirates and the rest of the world. The centre includes conference rooms, library, planetarium, learning centre, lecture theaters, science exhibition spaces, restaurant-bar and shops. The concept was the fusion of three iconic phenomena associated with the dessert, the oasis the whirlwind and the mirage. Read More…
BIG St. Petersburg Pier Concept by West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture
Wave Pier is one of three shortlisted proposals for the St. Petersburg Pier International Design Competition. The Wave tries to connect the water and the city of Petersburg by emphasizing the possibility of achieving unity through physical contact. The programmatic concept includes a museum, observation deck, playgrounds and green areas. The loop-shaped structure mimics the physiology of the water wave: it goes underwater and rises in order to frame a swimming pool and holding areas for kayaks, canoes and small boats.
Tai Pei Art Museum by Kois Associated Architects
Greek firm kois associated architects has sent us their proposal for Tapei Art Museum.
When we started the design process we noticed that the site was a so-called terrain vague, urbanistically speaking a no man’s land with remnants of industrial installations. While it had some elements of exterior design like the sculpture garden on its west boundary with the prominent sculpture feature, on its south east boundary the amphitheater and on the north east boundary the art resource center. These facilities although present within the strong boundaries of the site appear disconnected and the site gives the image of a vacant land. According to the established schedule the site was to become a part of the architecturally organized and well defined city. Our aim was to convert this area into a prominent and recognizable district within the urban landscape of Tai Pei. For that reason we decided that we wanted a building that will act as landmark within the city and could become an icon for the new image of Tai Pei.
We decided since the beginning that we did not want to merge the two programs in one but instead we wanted two separated programs consecutively two separate museums that will develop a dialectic relationship between them.
We followed different patterns of organization for the two museums. The children’s art museum is organized and structured in a free fluid manner in comparison with the more rigid ortho-kanonic organization of the art museum located below it. The reason is that we felt that it was more appropriate to give its users the children the freedom of exploration and the spontaneity of discovery.
Mario Cucinella’s One Airport Square in Ghana
On September 8th, Mario Cucinella Architects will break ground on his One Airport Square project in Accra, Ghana’s capital city. Accra, capital of Ghana is swiftly becoming one of the strongest economic hubs in West Africa. The Italian design studio Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA) has been commissioned to envision a 17,000 sq m mixed use complex to be situated in the heart of the city.
Actis Boston & laurus development partners commissioned a 21,000 sqm mix used development with retail facilities and an office bock. According to the particular topography of the site, the project is organized in order to create a public square towards the north east side of the area, concentrating the building mass on the opposite side. Read More…
Garden of the Bay, Singapore by Wilkinson Eyre
Architects Wilkinson Eyre and structural engineers Atelier 10 reveals the master-plan for the Singapore’s garden project alongside the Marina Bay. This is a £350 million project on a 54 hectare site on Singapore Marina front. The scheme is a combination of buildings, conservatories, structures and gardens.
With a total covered area of 16,500m2, they will be among the largest climate-controlled glasshouses in the world, employing low-energy and renewable systems. Each has its own distinct character, but both explore the horticulture of those environments most likely to be affected by climate change, the Mediterranean zone and tropical cloud forests. The cool-dry biome will tell the story of ‘plants and people’ in the Mediterranean zone, and how the plants cultivated in these regions will gradually become endangered as temperatures rise.
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Tena Tower Project at Tena Lakes, Burkina Faso by Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
Tena Tower Project by architect Manuelle Gautrand is mainly up-market residential, and proposes to mix different type of housings with a hotel, offices and a lot of equipments like a swimming pool, some restaurants, a SPA-fitness place, a conference center, sports facilities (Golf and tennis club).
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Water Box by Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe and Associates
Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe and Associates recently won third place in the Miami Water Box competition for their roaming proposal. The construction of the water cube uses traditional steel structure and the not so traditional cladding of water. The water cladding is achieved with small reservoirs made of structural Plexiglas along the edge of the structure and laying flat across the top of the structure. These reservoirs are constantly being filled with pumps that bring water up from the bay and keeping water constantly flowing over the edge.
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The Eco-Wine Cube by Michael Jantzen
The Eco-Wine Cube from American designer Michael Jantzen is a concept proposal for a wine bar that will only serve sustainably grown wine. Based around sustainability, the materials, construction and continued practices of the interior are all environmentally friendly. Inside the Eco-Wine Cube, visitors can watch LCD digital display windows projecting images from the surrounding countryside. LCD screens are embedded in the tables that offer wine selection information along with other interactive entertainment.
Eco-Silicon Valley in Bejing, Project Eriksson Architects
This is the design by Helsinki-based design studio, Eriksson Architects for an Eco-settlement in the Mentougou Eco Valley in China. Currently awaiting permission from the Chinese government, the project still has to step over legal red tape. Once done, this will be an Eco-Silicon valley in itself and will use different types of raw materials, unlike the conformist architecture, making the city unique.
The city will span a 100 square meters and will include nine environmental research institutes and companies, one city center and several smaller residential villages with enough roof for 50,000 people!
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Department Store in Uppsala, Project by Tham & Videgard Hansson Arkitekter
Building permission has been granted for Tham & Videgard Hansson Arkitekts‘ new department store in Uppsala, Sweden. Read More…
Coral Reef, 1000 Passive Houses by Vincent Callebaut Architects
The Coral Reef project by Vincent Callebaut Architects plans a matrix to build a three dimensional and energy self-sufficient village from one and only standardized and prefabricated module in order to rehouse the refugees from such humanitarian catastrophes. This basic module is simply made of two passive houses (with metallic structure and tropical wood facades) interlocked in duplex around a transversal horizontal circulation linking every unit.
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Underground City in Diamond Mine, Eco-City Project 2020 by AB Elis Ltd
Eco-city 2020 is a proposal for the rehabilitation of the Mirniy industrial zone in Eastern Siberia, Russia designed by the innovative architectural studio AB Elis Ltd.
Eco-city would be constructed of multiple levels, with a huge central core. The main floor would hold parks and recreation areas, with residential areas terracing up around the walls of the mine. Underneath would be space for vertical farms and forests, subsiding on light piped down the central core. An estimated 100,000 people would be able to live in Eco-city, and architects are hoping that it would help to attract tourists to Eastern Siberia. Read More…
GEOtube by Faulders Studio
Geotube is a building proposal designed by the California based architecture Firm Faulders Studio for the unique environment of dubai. Born from unique environmental conditions, GEOtube is a new kind of urban sculptural tower. Gravity-sprayed with adjacent Persion Gulf waters, its building skin is entirely grown rather than constructed; is in continual formation rather than fully completed; and is created locally rather than imported.
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Proposal for a New Prison in the City Center of Gothenburg by Maria Poll and AnnaKarin Stråhle
Two young Swedish architects, Maria Poll and AnnaKarin Stråhle have made a proposal for a new prison in the city center of Gothenburg suggesting that architecture can be a helping tool in the rehabilitation of prisoners. And that a central location of the prison can help the prisoners get in contact with the society and vice versa, creating a mutual trust between the citizens and the prisoners.
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Urcomante House at Solar Decathalon Europe
“URCOMANTE,” House has been built by the team group of dedicated students and teachers from the University of Valladolid, Spain. The project has been presented at the Solar Decathalon Europe 2010. URCOMANTE is a word composed of the various individuals to whom the living spaces of the house can be adapted to(urbanite, cosmopolitan, manager, immigrant, and dilettante).
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Casa JE by Humberto Hermeto
The JE House designed by Brazilian architect Humberto Hermeto set on a hill overlooking a vast valley. The JE House boasts walls of floor-to-ceiling glass and integrates outdoor living spaces into its light.
Communication between the various levels of the residence is made by a central core that contains an elevator. It connects directly the first level of the gallery to the residence level. In an intermediate level, it connects the service and garage floor, the mezzanine of the gallery.
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Alpha Project by Xavier Vilalta Studio
Architects Xavier Vilalta Studio have won the competition with the theme : tower for Doha, Qatar. Called Alpha Project, the design is based on tha patterns of ancient Arabic tiles.
It would be designed as an independent ecosystem to ensure stable living at places with harsher climes with the use of sustainable renewable energy measures.
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Ark House by Axis Mundi
New Yorker architects from Axis Mundi created this sustainable citadel in the Montana plains called Ark House. They filled the request to design a home for a 100 acre site in Madison Valley, that feels contemporary while still related to the ancient landscape.
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