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Lien Residence by Ministry of Design

Area : 600 sq m
Location : Singapore 2009.
Design Consultant – Architecture &Interiors : Ministry of Design
Lead Designer : Colin Seah
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Image courtesy SHL Architects

schmidt hammer lassen architects wins the competition for the International Criminal Court in The Hague

After years of accommodation in temporary premises, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has revealed its design for new permanent headquarters by schmidt hammer lassen architects (SHL).  The Danish office was selected in a prestigious architectural design competition with a twenty strong international shortlist including David Chipperfield, Mecanoo Architecten, OMA/Search, Ingenhoven, Wiel Arets, and Kengo Kuma & Associates. Read the rest of this entry »

I just found  the presentation vdo of the Petra inspiration work from Zaha Hadid Architects that we posted last week. Please enjoy.

© KieranTimberlake/studio amd

U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis B. Susman, and Acting Director of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Adam Namm, announced today that KieranTimberlake of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has won the design competition for the New London Embassy. Read the rest of this entry »

Holographic Architectural Imaging by Zebra from Core77 on Vimeo.

Photo©Mr Albert Lim KS of Albert Lim KS Photographer

This is the work from Unit One Design sdn bhd led by John Ding and Ken Wong. The project recently received WAN AWARDS 2009 for residential category. It’s called Leisure Farm Villas located in  Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
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Photo©Ryota Atarashi

Architects: Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Location: Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
Site area: 177.27 sqm
Building area: 106.33 sqm
Total floor area: 259.72 sqm
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Photo courtesy of Tony Owen Partners

Australian architects Tony Owen Partners have designed a house overlooking Sydney harbor. They called it Moebius house.They applied the Micro Design parametric modeling software in the design process to achieve the best site responsive architecture. Read the rest of this entry »

Image Courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects

At a ceremony in the Jordanian capital, His Excellency Omar Maani, the mayor of Amman, announced the new King Abdullah II House of Culture & Art by Zaha Hadid Architects – a performing arts and cultural centre that includes a 1600-seat concert theatre, 400-seat theatre, educational centre, rehearsal rooms, and galleries.

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4 Collective Housing Units, rendering courtesy of LAN Architecture

A new, ecological and social living space geared to the 21st century. It is a competition winning designed form LAN Architecture.

The project’s richness and major interest lie in the possibility of inventing an urban lifestyle set in a highly experimental framework enabling the affirmation of new ecological and contemporary architectures. The diversity of architectural propositions and communal and private spaces had to ensure and enhance this specificity. Read the rest of this entry »