Browsing: Architecture

“Gantry Crane,” the winner of the Cuntan International Cruise Center design competition, is a project designed by MAD architects collaborating with the China Academy of Building Research (CASR) by an impression from the giant orange gantry cranes of the freight terminal. These cranes look like surrealist aliens, providing insight into designing a futuristic city.

Horizontal and vertical frames lace a farmhouse, a research center, and a display arena. Sanya Jinmao Farm Lab designed by CLOU Architects presents a striking structural composition of grids and guides in Sanya City, Hainan Island. Nanshan Co-life Pavilion and Nanfan Exhibition Hall in the Nanfan High-tech Park exposes two multifunctional spaces with 6,900 square meters of total construction.

STERLING PRESSER Architects+Engineers envisioned the new construction of the ‘Sport Arena Wien’ to create a new sustainable landmark with the theme of ‘Green Architecture’ for the city of Vienna in Austria. The project aims to find a high-quality architectural solution that presents the arena with the outdoor space in an overall ensemble.

Wind Pavilion, designed and woven by Tongji CAUP, presents a bamboo-structured pavilion at the Longshanyuan in Anji City. The abode serves the tourists as a place to rest. The shelter can accommodate a small group for performances and team-building events. The curvaceous design enfolds various landscape characteristics from diverse aspects and integrates bifurcated herringbone sheds as the spatial prototype.

When concepts, dreams, and visions take solid form, it knits a zeal of triumph. Masary?ka building presents one such iconic development convened by Zaha Hadid Architects in Prague. The construction has taken shape up to level three, with retail levels on the ground and first floors. The higher floors gather office spaces, cantilevered and terraced with roof gardens.

Sienna Apartments showcases an exquisite array of exposed brickwork, laying a curvy pattern designed by Sameep Padora & Associates. In the city of Hyderabad in India, the site encloses a small apartment building in the Jubilee Hills check post area.

Megapark unveils a geometric exposition immersed in natural vegetation. Designed by Architectkidd in partnership with landscape architects’ Landscape Collaboration, the Megapark infuses a recreational and retail centre for a shopping complex in Bangkok.

The doubly-curved roof and latticed structural membranes knit by integrating advanced systems and human inputs, shape the next evolutionary step to sustainable construction. HiLo presents the attractive architecture woven by the combination of energy-resource saving construction and execution. Hilo designed atop Empa’s and Eawag’s NEST research and innovation building implemented by ETH Zurich’s Block Research Group and the Architecture and Building Systems Group in collaboration with many industrial partners take the giant leap of sustainable creations.

It’s a calm oasis immersed within a grove of trees! Cambridge Mosque draws inspiration from local architecture and traditional Islamic principles conceived and designed by Marks Barfield Architects. The building echo geometric patterns of infinite symbolism defining a devout character. Injected as a landmark building to the Cambridge community, the mosque revels in weaving an experience for its devotees that truly reflect purity and serenity.

Architecture is a performance, an expression composed to elevate and enhance the drama it portrays. Duett Düsseldorf stands strikingly tall as two iconic towers – dancing. Designed by Snøhetta, the world-class opera house exposes a lavish and inviting setting. A generous public roof garden steps upon its podium, capturing magnificent views all around. The vision of Duett Düsseldorf promises to bestow the German city a new cultural epicenter.