Internationally recognized practice RMJM Architects have recently announced their groundbreaking $1 billon mixed-use complex for the Atasehir district, the growing residential and business area of Istanbul, Turkey. RMJM’s complex will allow the new business center to flourish by serving 20,000 people and providing for a variety of their needs. The project will be revolutionary for Turkey as it w..
S-Project – Built 2008-2009 Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS Location: Lebanon, Broumana Type: Residential Project Total Area: 250 sqm Land Total Area: 22.000 sqm Type: Residential Construction Fees: 500.000 $ Architects in Charge: Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS Architect: Youssef Tohme Project Architect: Anastasia Elrouss www.yousseftohme.com Photographer: Joe Keserouani Structural Consultants for Children Cabanas: Nabi..
German architect Ole Scheeren of Office for Metropolitan Architecture has designed a skyscraper for Bangkok in Thailand. Called MahaNakhon, the building consists of a 77-storey glass tower. A band of shifted, box-like elements breaks up the surface and creates terraces and balconies. There will also be a public plaza, retail space, 200 homes, a hotel, bar and restaurant. Building is due for comp..
Architects: ODOS architects Location: Dublin, Ireland Construction: SHALE Construction Constructed Area: 140 sqm Design Year: 2006 Construction Year: 2007-2008 Photographs: Ros Kavanagh and Barbara Corsico This new residential development, for a motorcycle enthusiast, adjacent to No.10 Grangegorman Villas, Grangegorman, Dublin 7 is an alternative reaction to the more traditional city centre infi..
Project data: > Client: University of Plymouth > Gross floor area: 12,600 m2 > Construction Value: 22 mill. GBP > Type of assignment: 1st prize in open international competition UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH - ARTS FACULTY The vision for the new arts building is to create a center for arts and culture that fuses both city and university campus as a core for activity and learning. A central cross point ..
We just received this from OMA: After almost 12 years in the boards, OMA announced that the De Rotterdam complex will enter construction during December 2009, expecting completion in 2013. Tree stacked towers with a total height of 150m, will result on a gross floor area of approximately 160,000m2, making De Rotterdam the largest building in the Netherland, with a total cost of €340m. The mixed-..
Architect: Epstein | Metter Studio Location: Hoffman Estates, Illinois, USA Principal Designer: Andrew Metter, FAIA Design Architect: Daesun Park, AIA|LEED AP Interiors: Epstein Interiors Landscape Architect: Jacobs/Ryan Engineer: Epstein Engineering General Contractor: G.A. Johnson Constructed Area: 8,360 sqm Project year: 2009 Photographs: Mark Ballogg This project is a 90,000 s.f. Corporate H..
But not any kind of history, or at least not the scientific history of experts, which does not always leave room for imagination and almost always exhausts itself. We like to think of a history to call our own, and which never ends, because it lives on in each small or large finding, and in the eye of the observer, a whimsical eye that relies on what it wants to see, rather than on what it actua..
Nestled among the Forest Hill neighborhood in Toronto, Paul Raff Studio’s latest sustainable residence is “a marriage of environmentally responsible building strategies and elegant architectural composition.” The 353m2 residence, entitled the Cascade House, is designed in an I-formation around an outdoor swimming pool and offers a high quality of aesthetics in addition to environmentally friendl..
Danish architects C.F.Møller and Norwegian practice Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter have won a competition to design three office towers in Oslo. Called Crystal Clear, the winning design features towers composed of consists of stacked glazed boxes. Here’s some info from C.F.Møller: – C.F.Møller Architects and Norwegian Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter cooperate to design a new landmark for Oslo C. F. Mølle..