architecture buzz!!

Photo courtesy Nigel Young_Foster+Partners

First time for me to buzz on the Shanghai Expo 2010, sorry for a bit delay : ). First project is from Foster+Partners‘s Sand dune pavilion of the UAE. Read the rest of this entry »

Images courtesy of N+B architects,©Paul KOZLOWSKI

High school Albert Einstein, Brassens site, in France, was recently restructured and extended by French firm N+B architects . The project took into account the notions of flexibility, educational project, and environmental use functionality and to enable the programmatic entities, to be linked together around exterior spaces. Read the rest of this entry »

Photo ©Louise Billgert

Only ten minutes from Stockholm centre lies this piece of surprisingly un-touched natural landscape hidden. The lot is directly on the Drevviken lake with its own little cove. The crescent of the cove follows the slightly bowl-shaped land that also gave the shape of the house. The house is itself a kind of up-turned crescent with foundation and roof lines in parallel curves. With three different floor levels inside, the land could be left un-touched for the building. So the sculptural quality of the house follows the nature of the site rather than being a gesture. Read the rest of this entry »

Image courtesy SHL Architects

schmidt hammer lassen architects has won the competition to design a 54,000m2 concert, congress and hotel complex in Malmö, Sweden. The competition, where Snøhetta, Baumschlager Eberle and Daniel Libeskind participated, also included the development of additionally 35,000m2 for housing and commercial use. This is the second competition won by schmidt hammer lassen architects in the southern part of Sweden in 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Photo©Albert Lim

Project Title: Water-Cooled House
Location: Bukit Timah, Singapore
Project Completion: 2009
Architect: Wallflower Architecture + Design (www.wallflower.com.sg)
Design Team: Cecil Chee, Robin Tan & Sean Zheng
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Photographer/Artist: Tim Griffith

Akerselva Atrium, Downtown Oslo, Norway

The NBBJ-designed Akerselva Atrium is a new 17,600 SM mixed-use project in the Akerselva neighborhood in downtown Oslo—a mere five-minute walk to the city’s opera, central train station and harbor. Surrounded by historical industrial, office and apartment buildings, it is among the first contemporary and innovative designs introduced to the area in recent years. Read the rest of this entry »

Image courtesy OFIS

Here is the residence project from a very productive architects offices from Slovenia and their work is also look interesting. They are OFIS sending us with the Rose Garden Islands as following description;

The project is located in the prominent green residential area of Ljubljana just on the edge of city centre. The main request was to develop 100 quality housing units with terraces surrounded by green. Read the rest of this entry »

Photo courtesy Marcus O’Reilly Architects

Located on a highly desirable street two blocks from the beach in the Melbourne suburb of St. Kilda, this extension grafts on to an Edwardian home in a dramatic yet sensitive fashion.

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Photographer/Artist: Tim Griffith

The design of the award-winning Sail @ Marina Bay derives inspiration from Singapore’s port environment—the air, wind and water—and its diverse international population. Viewed from across the bay, the 63- and 70-story glass-clad towers rise from a sculpted base to resemble wind-blown sails. At 245 meters tall, the Sail @ Marina Bay prominently carves out the leading edge of Singapore’s emerging new skyline.
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