Datong Sports Park by Populous

Tuesday, August 3rd 2010
Datong Sports Park by Populous

The win for Populous, which has its Asian base in Queensland, comes as its first sports park in Nanjing celebrates five years of successful operation. Populous won an IOC/IAKS Gold Award for the design of Nanjing, built for the 2005 China National Games, and the catalyst for a major city centre development. The Sports Park in Datong will provide work for 10 professional staff in Populous’ Brisbane... 

MAXXI, The National Museum of the XXI Century Arts by Zaha Hadid Architects

Tuesday, June 8th 2010
MAXXI, The National Museum of the XXI Century Arts by Zaha Hadid Architects

The design by Zaha Hadid is woven into the city’s fabric with an architectural arrangement based on the idea of an urban campus. In the MAXXI, the idea of a “closed” building gives way to a broader dimension, creating both indoor and outdoor spaces that become part of the surrounding city. The two museums – MAXXI Art and MAXXI Architecture – are located around a large... 

Dutch Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 by John Körmeling

Thursday, May 27th 2010
Dutch Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 by John Körmeling

The Happy Street is the answer on the question Better City Better Life. I think that origins in a GOOD street. with mix functions, different forms of buildings . A street mixed with different types of buildings like a house, a shop, a factory, an office, a farm, a petrol station, a sportfield , a garage, forms the condition for a social life. The people can just gaze at it, it is a wunderfull steel... 

Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art by Igor Franic of studio za arhitekturu

Thursday, May 20th 2010
Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art by Igor Franic of studio za arhitekturu

At a place that at the time of the competition had no urban characteristics, Igor Franić of studio za arhitekturu (SZA) took into consideration the strongly stressed orthogonal matrix of Novi Zagreb, from where he continued to develop the project. For Franić, the context is the entire Novi Zagreb, both in the sense of the heritage of modern city-planning culture and the area with specific ambiance... 

Centre for Restoration by UTArchitects

Thursday, May 20th 2010
Centre for Restoration by UTArchitects

The workshop is designed as a building which opens up towards the yard and the farmhouse. The external geometry of the workshop strongly references the old farmhouse but is lower in height, thereby allowing the farmhouse to remain recognised as the lead building of the ensemble. The new building retreats to the background and appears as an open shell with the interior connecting to the yard. The facade... 

Quay Apartments Zierikzee by Kingma Roorda architects

Friday, May 14th 2010
Quay Apartments Zierikzee by Kingma Roorda architects

This first building (the second is to be built later this year) is part of a newly built neighbourhood where we designed a number of individual dwellings earlier. The design for the apartment buildings departs from a reinterpretation of typical commercial warehouses. Fully clad in aluminium, both buildings distinguish themselves by their vivid colour and specific treatment of the facades.

Italian Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 by BiCuadro Architects

Friday, May 14th 2010
Italian Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 by BiCuadro Architects

The Italian Pavilion for Shanghai is the representation of this “spatial circumstance which still produces and give the birth to the excellence; It is a prototipe that espresses the stratification of the social and urban italian soul and gives the idea of historical continuity. The interior exposition spaces are influenced by this spatial scan and are organized between the planes as different themes... 

Korean Pavilion Shanghai Expo 2010 design by Mass Studies

Friday, May 14th 2010
Korean Pavilion Shanghai Expo 2010 design by Mass Studies

The Korea Pavilion is situated in Zone A, directly neighboring the Japan Pavilion and the Saudi Arabia Pavilion, and in close proximity to the China Pavilion. The site is around 6000m2, and it is one of the largest lots within the Expo compound. Located on the perimeter of the zone, the site takes advantage of the views out towards the Huangpu River and the Shanghai skyline in the distance. With land... 

Solar City Tower for Rio Olympics 2016

Monday, May 10th 2010
Solar City Tower for Rio Olympics 2016

The aim of Solar City Tower for Rio 2016 Olympic Games project is to ask how the classic concept of a landmark can be reconsidered. It is less about an expressive, iconic architectural form; rather, it is a return to content and actual, real challenges for the imminent post-oil-era. This project represents a message of a society facing the future; thus, it is the representation of an inner attitude.... 

Ironbank Building Auckland by RTA Studio

Thursday, April 29th 2010
Ironbank Building Auckland by RTA Studio

The building is located in an historic area on the edge of Auckland’s (New Zealand) CBD. The front of the site addresses the high street which is dominated by a rich mixture of Victorian and Edwardian buildings. Most of these buildings have fallen into varying states of disrepair over recent decades. The building presents a glass reinforced concrete (GRC) façade as a ‘veil’ to the high street...