This well proportion-stacking wooden box form resort turns out to be a winning design for the Crown Resort Motafon. It was designed by ATP Architects and Engineers, the followings are their statement;
This new interpretation of the once so successful type of alpine GRAND HOTEL is based on the LEED criteria and focuses on the reduction of the physical footprint by the use of a compact form and an intelligent energy concept with the use of renewable energies as well as favouring traditional methods of construction and the local materials (pine in the sleeping areas, etc). Read the rest of this entry »
Design Combines Functions of Library, Life-Long Learning Center and Music Center
NEW YORK, August 4 — REX and Principal in Charge Joshua Prince-Ramus have been named the winner of the BibLLLiotheek competition to build a “Library of the Future” for the city of Kortrijk, Belgium. REX partnered with landscape architects Bureau Bas Smets in entering the competition, which included both a building and master plan. Read the rest of this entry »
Canadian architectural firm Diamond + Schmitt Architects has been nominated to design the 4-million new Mariinsky Theater complex’s 2000-seat opera and ballet house in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Canadian firm has been chosen from among five international and Russian competitors like Dominique Perrault. The budget for the new Theater is €295,000,000, with a projected completion date of 2011. The New Mariinsky will complement both the existing Mariinsky Theater located in Teatralnaya Square directly across the canal from the site of the new theater, as well as the new Mariinsky Theater Concert Hall, a 1,200 seat facility two blocks west which opened in 2007.
Business Centre Miramare is a winning competition project by 3LHD. The competition program is placed on a crossing of two streets, Miramarska and Bednjanska. It is a point of colliding two urban city concepts: north part with classical city blocks of the Zagreb’s lower city enclosed by the railway and the south part primarily along the Vukovarska Street, outlined with modernistic dominant character of mostly public and social buildings. Read the rest of this entry »
Spanish firm herreros arquitectos won first prize forin the international architectural competition for the munch museum in Oslo, Norway. Following is the jury verdict;
Lambda ( Herreros Arquitectos) creates a generous invitation both to the museum and to the public access of the area in general. the location of the museum on paulsenkaia leaves the area south of the opera open to a public park and recreational landmark in the middle of the bay overlooking the fjord, in close contact both with the opera and the museum. the project strengthens the river mouth, opens the landscape and gives public access to both sides of the river all the way out to the fjord. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s the promo VDO of World Architecture Festival 2009 at Barcelona during 4-6 Nov 2009. You can enter “World Building of the Year award by register and submit on-line the completed work up to 15 building categories. This year there will be award for Future Idea, Interior and Fit-out, Structure Design as well. Check out the official site here http://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/index.cfm
Iconic design and state of the art technology create dynamic mini-city in the UAE
Leeser Architecture, an internationally recognized design firm, has won an invited competition for a five-star luxury hotel in the Zayed Bay in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Called the Helix Hotel for its staggered floor plates, it rests in the bay, partially floating in the water and adjacent to the serpentine Sheik Zayed Bridge currently under construction by designer Zaha Hadid. With the Helix, Leeser Architecture has devised a new way to consider hotel culture in the Emirates, highlighting elements that are usually unseen, and playfully enlivening those parts that traditionally remain static and mundane. Read the rest of this entry »
“Car Experience” is a project for a building to be dedicated to the automobile: the car as an object of desire, a world to explore, a technology to study, an article to display and a means to travel around the building.
Here the world of the automobile intersects with the human and organic world creating a new tectonic structure with methods differing from the usual flat open spaces, squares… all on a human scale. Here everything is geared to the automobile – the car is the point of reference.
Lanzarote’s new concert and congress hall has been designed by Henning Larsen Architects in collaboration with the local architect Carlos Morales. The 15.000 m2 large cultural building will be located in Arrecife, the main city of Lanzarote. Read the rest of this entry »
Awarding-winning practice schmidt hammer lassen architects (SHL Architects) has won an international competition to design “Urban Mediaspace”, the largest public library in Scandinavia. The € 228 million scheme, located in Aarhus, Denmark, will become a new visual and cultural focal point for the city whilst pioneering the next generation of library
design. Read the rest of this entry »
