designed by cai yongjie, the 'wenchuan earthquake memorial museum' takes the form of a cracked landscape.
This post is brought to you by Figueras International Seating. Katowice, a city of 300,000 inhabitants in the South of Poland, wants to leave its past of mining industry behind. In the heart of the city, and on what was formerly a mine and its inevitable mountains of mining residue, today we find...
In the breathtaking lansdcape along the Paiva river in Portugal, engineering studio Trimétrica designed a walkway in dialogue with nature, morphology and panoramic views.
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The winners of the 3rd International Holcim Awards competition for sustainable construction projects and visions from across Latin America have just been announced. A total of USD 300,000 was presented to eleven outstanding projects at a ceremony in Buenos Aires. The winning...
Often people make the mistake of thinking of art as something that is to do only with the senses and nothing to do with practicality. People who think like
Wuhan Huafa Capital ParkWuhan Huafa Capital Development is located in […]
eschewing the conventional role in traditional architectural hierarchies, this project acts as a catalyst to an overcrowded favela by bringing in social infrastructure and a connection between top-down and bottom-up initiatives.
San Berillo Master Plan :The neighbourhood of San Berillo in Catania, Sicilly has always had a negative reputation. An ample demolition took place here in 1
High-density cities are waking up to the benefits of verdant walls, as the lack of green spaces on the ground are leading to vertical urban gardens running up and down building façades.
An 85,000 sq m Eco-Park for sustainable research and technology that will promote small and middle-sized enterprises is planned for OSTIM – one of Turkey’s largest formal industrial zones. The holistic concept responds to the challenging sloped topography: Workshops, warehouses, and test labs are housed within a hillside terraced wing. The green roofs add natural insulation and can be used for outdoor experiments and as recreation areas for the building occupants.
With their project for the Sancaklar Mosque, Istanbul, Emre Arolat Architects aim to address the fundamental issues of designing a mosque by distancing itself from the current architectural discussions based on form and focusing solely on the essence of religious space.
Completed in 2012 in Büyükçekmece, Turkey. Images by Thomas Mayer. Sancaklar Mosque located in Buyukçekmece, a suburban neighborhood on the outskirts of Istanbul, aims to address the fundamental issues of designing a...
sou fujimoto's 'taiwain café' is a 'three-dimensional alleyway', encouraging social activity in areas normally considered as places of transition.
柔和的几何元素，自然生长形成。
Baan Plai Haad is a sea-side condominium in Pattaya by Sansiri. TROP design the landscape. Steven J. Leach, Jr. + Asso ciates Limited (SL+A) is the architect. Photography team » W Workspace Photogr…
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Completed in 2009 in Hong Kong (SAR). The “Bye Saan” Tradition. In the old days, people went up hills twice a year to pay respect to their ancestors at their graves. They brought along...
THE LAHOFER WINERY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC HYBIK + KRISTO…
This beach house villa is the family home of Stefan Antoni, director of SAOTA Architects, perched on Lion's Head in Cape Town, South Africa.
San Vicente Ferrer Community Center by Planb arquitectos.
Image 16 of 48 from gallery of Xianghu Xiaoyao Manor / goa. Courtesy of GOA
Zorlu Center is located in Levent / Istanbul a central location, close to the bridge and important districts of the city. It rests on a total area of 105000m² and with its floor gardens; it is coming up to 100000m² of designed landscape areas. As a result of its settlement on possibly the highest profiled site in Istanbul, it has the chance to have an excellent Bosphorus and the city view. Zorlu Center shelters a base structure that is also the substructure of the landscape topography and four towers rising on it.
Image 4 of 33 from gallery of LAND Community Center / EID Architecture. Photograph by Yike Studio
The institute building extends the university's existing main circulation axis westward, past the new library designed by Ortner and Ortner, and is incorpora...
Land art or Earth art is an art movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked. It is also an art form that is created in nature, using natural materials such as soil, rock (bed rock, boulders, stones), organic media (logs, branches, leaves) and water.
architectenbureau wil-ma's project 'faith that the sky is not falling' provides a series of sanctuaries below a civic plaza within london's urban fabric.
