Author: Jayakrishnan Ranjit

A tantalizing snowcap nestled amidst snowy peaks in North-Eastern China echoes in scintiallting waves. Yabuli Entrepreneurs’ Congress Center by MAD Architects decodes a thrilling exposition of form and structure embodying the entrepreneurial spirit. The shape evidently reminisces the formation of a tent. The design blends wooden walls, stories, thoughts and ideas, surrounded to evoke the undulating terrain. The design features a curved silver shell with wooden interiors exuding a warm ambience. Large glass skylight in the interiors subsequently drives in natural light filtering through the glazed surface. The Center composes an exhibition hall, meeting rooms, and a television hall as…

A series of recurring sloping roofs define the new Nelson Airport Terminal designed by Studio Pacific. An enhanced gateway experience for travellers, the building, reflects the region’s locally sourced timber elements framing the compelling structure. They are crafted as a unique structure elating the concept of flights taking off. Nelson Airport meets the requirements of the airport’s anticipated growth. The new terminal engages with the travellers and the aeroplanes in visual connectivity. Subsequently, The surrounding landscape with the thrilling sky and mountains add to the emotional aura generated in the spaces. Also, it resonates with the folded roof rising up…

The Musée des Confluences museum recognizes itself as a public gateway to the knowledge of our time designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au Wolf D. Prix & Partner ZT GmbH in Lyon, France. The intriguing structure stimulates directed and active use of its setting, not only as a place of observation but also as a place to meet in the urban environment. The glazed and framed facade located in the construction site confluences eponymous to the Rhône and the Saône inspired superposition in urban space. These two complexly linked architectural units, crystal and cloud, envisage the form. The cloud suspends on pillars,…

A striking red bulbous bubble in the Huadu District of Guangzhou, China is the ‘Sunac Guangzhou Grand Theatre’ designed by London based design practice Steven Chilton Architects. The recently completed enthralling structure inhabits 2000 seated purpose?built theatre. The theatre can be its own performer as well, where architecture and engineering blends to showcase the marvel. Since the Han Dynasty, Guangzhou has been a prominent centre for the arts and trading. It is also the birthplace of ‘Silk Road on the Sea’. Artist Zhang Hongfei derives the concept for the theatre from illustrations in silk embroidery inspired by traditional and contemporary…

The new Shenzhen Science & Technology Museum in Guangming Science City, China is a spectacular vision forged by Zaha Hadid Architects. The pebble-shaped envelope with cascading terraces will rise as an iconic landmark institution in the city. The museum invites to awaken the exploration of science and technology in breath-taking magnitude and performance. Envisaged in 125,000 square meters, the Shenzhen Science & Technology Museum subsequently derives a U-shaped plan intuitively oriented and navigated. The concept indeed showcases a series of interconnected public spaces, galleries, and educational facilities summoned to a central atrium courtyard. Furthermore, it enables an adaptability scheme to…

Magnetically attractive loop visualized by Left Angle Partnership in collaboration with PADA Labs, and Mariana Cabugueira, is the new Hyperloop campus proposal in Nevada, United States. The structure resonates along the abstract lines of an infinity symbol, knitting the arid desert landscape. The new campus titled ‘Nucelus’ imagines rising above being a mere building to an aficionado sanctuary of science. The voluptuous and bodacious image of the Hyperloop Campus revokes ‘the impossible’ to become possible. The design intends to celebrate the ancient and always-de-renewed race in light of the most heartfelt and irredeemable ambition of our species: progress. Crossed by…

The hyperbolic paraboloid shapes mounted atop the cape of Prairie Basin Park are a sight to adore. Designed by Volkan Alkanoglu, the Phantom Pavilion located at Stapelton, CO is conceived as a light-weight curved structure. Aesthetically assembled with two cross-laminated layers of aluminum acting as the structural shell. The sculpture assembled with 1,162 painted cross-laminated aluminium elements creates a vibrant hue on the visitors. Following each independent structural shell, with its dynamic shape and silhouette, appears to be in motion. Simultaneously altering its visual look. The pavilions especially follow a symmetrical language of three iconic vaults hovering 16 feet at…

In the outskirts of a national forest park in Chengdu, the world’s leading research institute on panda preservations widens their campus in the abstract shape of pandas snooping around. Illustrative design by EID Architecture, as such a synthesis of fluidic circular rings, nurtures the wonderful pandas. They cherish and treasure them in their own landscape in Chengdu National Giant Panda Research and Breeding Center. The illustrated design conceived by the principal architect Ping Jiang visualized a group of four panda pavilions. Approved by the city park district administration. They became the research lab to house and study pandas’ behaviours and…

ILLUSORR Launch Event – The World’s First Design-Oriented Virtual Platform Virtual reality has given us the ability to create an experience that goes beyond spacetime, for the first time ever. We are now able to exist, interact with others, and perform activities, in a completely simulated realm. It is quite literally a dream come true. We can have parties, host fashion shows, and conduct classes all in a space that is not physical. To contribute to this, ILLUSORR is transitioning the design disciplines from the physical to the virtual world. It is creating the world’s first design-oriented virtual platform. Architects…

VTN Architects exhibits the Huong An Vien Visiting Center, harmonized within a lush green natural landscape. The pure bamboo structure, as part of a cemetery area, is located about 10 km southwest of Hue, Vietnam. The picturesque setting leaves an indelible sentiment on each one of us who visit this burial ground. The structure soars in bamboo slats sprouting from the ground to embrace an undulating roof. The cemetery lands usually brew a hefty resonance of death, loss and grief. As they lift and hurtle a sense of melancholy. The client and the architect mutually agreed to recuperate these emotions…