An interesting and unique building designed by an architect in the pavilion Surabaya – Indonesia, in principle, this building form Contertainer, when viewed in the outside appearance was interesting because in addition to the unique structure has seemed a wide range of colors so that radiates a natural beauty. Contertainer precisely located in Batu, East Java Province of Indonesia. Contertainer are public facilities, consisting of a clinic and...
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 construction, made by a very good structural designer...
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 streams. Walking inside the building is like going...
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 culture (China) and sea culture (Japan) surrounding...
The new headquarters for Clare County Council provide 8,600 sqm of offices for ca. 300 staff, configured around a public concourse, as well as meeting rooms, staff canteen, a laboratory, Council Chamber and 320 car parking spaces. The building takes the form of a 4-storey spine block of office accommodation running north/south in the centre of the site, at the furthest point from the surrounding houses. To the west and perpendicular to the spine,...
Construction workers and organizers in Shanghai, China are busily completing tasks ahead of the planned opening of the 2010 World Expo on May 1st – planned to be the largest World Expo in history. The theme of the Expo is “Better City, Better Life”, and is scheduled to run until October 31, 2010. In recent months, large construction and renovation projects have dominated much of Shanghai, in preparation for becoming the World’s...
The facility is composed of two buildings that form a common public space between them that is both a gateway to the river and a staging terrace for the boats. The smaller of the buildings is a glass pavilion that houses the singles shells. Its transparency allows for a unique perspective on the boats during storage and can be viewed from the adjacent footpaths and roadway. The larger, main building holds 4-person and eight-person shells on the ground...
During the four years of working with the project, the program has changed several times, however it has remained a cultural facility that is dedicated to visitor comfort and orientation. The current design, which has now completed the contract document stage, is scheduled for completion in 2011. The design for the building embodies a careful reaction to the horizontal character of the memorial design while also providing the area with a lively organic...
The pavilion’s design has been the product of a architectural / engineering collaboration between Arup and Carmody Groarke. Holding the 3mm plate stainless steel canopy aloft 8m, extremely slender vertical elements stand without any cross-bracing, joined only at the top with a decorative structural lattice. Extensive testing of prototypes was undertaken on full size mock-ups at the Building Research Establishment as part of the design development...
In 2001 the city of Roosendaal decided to ban cars from the New Market in the centre of town by building a huge two storey underground parking. In order to create a new public square the city of Roosendaal asked the urban design office Quadrat to make a proposition. In their scheme they proposed to pave the square with red and brown brick, plant 15 trees, make three exits for the underground parking and as the most visible and important element they...