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 edge screening the site’s interior. This screen... 

Contemporary Sky Residence Luanda by Risco

One of the most ambitious projects of Risco architects is the concept design for the future new towers – Sky Residence II + Sky Business – located in Luanda Sky Center. Two towers with great programmatic diversity, aiming for high urban density and encouragement of further developments around this so-called Sky Center, the future new town. Sky Residence II, a tower with 22 floors, create apartments of great comfort to make the most magnificent... 

National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion by Snohetta Architects

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... 

Rive Gauche Rotterdam by morePlatz architects

Spangen is defined by a classical symmetric urban layout and its circular borders – uneasily to transgress. The centre of the neighbourhood is lacking liveliness and atmosphere. Points of interest – Sparta Stadion, Marconi towers and Van Nelle Factory – surround the area outside its boundaries. The linear array of leisure programm reaches from tabletennis to rowing club, BBQ to openair pool, sports to recreation. Close to the Design... 

Burj Khalifa Tower, Dubai

‘Burj Khalifa’, developed by Emaar Properties, is the world’s tallest building according to the three criteria of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat: ‘Height to Architectural Top’, ‘Height To Highest Occupied Floor’, and ‘Height To Tip’. The tower is 320 metres taller than Taiwan’s Taipei 101, which had held the title of world’s tallest building since 2004, the year when... 

Urban Aqualoop by Work Architecture Company

Urban Aqualoop is public space created from infrastructure and natural cycles, creating spaces for lounging, eating, playing and physical relaxation in combination with a living, working hydroponic fish farm. Urban Aqualoop celebrates the cycles of organically feeding, growing and eating fish through an exchange of nutrients with plant life – all within a sinuous loop of a soft that bends around itself to create different spaces for lying upon,...