Apr 30
Boston-based architect, Preston Scott Cohen has designed a stunning new library building in Datong, China. Description from Preston Scott Cohen: Datong Library aims to resolve the tension between the two major roles of a central library: as a place of community promenade and gathering and as an archive of knowledge and quite place of study. The form of the …
Apr 21
Green School Stockholm is a new type of school with a modern approach to sustainable living. By actively educating about locally grown food, and by creating a multitude of green exterior public spaces, the building encompasses a full lifetime of sustainable living: from kindergarten to high school, college dorms to senior apartments. The building is …
Apr 16
College of Media & Communication by Antoine Predock in association with Executive Architect Burns & McDonnell in Qatar is a forum for technological innovation, education and cultural exchange. The building is divided into three sections: The crescent on the west, the curved arc on the east, and the bar on the north. The curved arc contains several programme elements …
Apr 13
Designed by UAP Principal, Daniel Tobin, with Matthew Tobin and Jamie Perrow, the Breakwater Beacon has become a symbol for the King Abdullah University for Science & Technology. Responding to a brief from the client and project architects HOK, Urban Art Projects created a contemporary interpretation of a lighthouse. The work drew inspiration from ancient Arabic …
Apr 07
New research center designed by Lyons Architecture as a world-class facility for molecular science, biotechnology and nanotechnology research, teaching and learning. This new $55m, 6 storey building provides approximately 2700m² of learning space – including wet and dry labs – on the lower three levels, and 18 research labs on the upper floors.
Apr 05
National Winners of the MEED Quality Awards for Projects, in association with Ernst & Young have been announced check below the list of 2013 National Winners and you can find the Leisure and Tourism Project of the Year, here And on 14th May 2013, at a Gala Awards ceremony taking place at the Jumeirah, Etihad Towers, Abu Dhabi; the GCC …
Mar 26
Dinkoff Architects have sent us images of their project BIBLIO-Centrum, a green-roofed solar-powered library for Helsinki’s city center. It is a cultural hub unite several of Helsinki’s most prominent facilities: Parliament, the Helsinki Music Centre, the Finland Opera House, the Kiasma Museum, Sanoma House, and the central railway station. Check out below the project description and images. Description from Dinkoff …
Mar 09
Kengo Kuma in collaboration with local architects Studio d`Architettura Martino Pedrozzi has been unveiled the design for a two-phase addition of a mendrisio-based campus to La Scuola Universitaria Professionale Della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI), an institute of higher education for applied sciences in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland.
Mar 03
Henning Larsen Architects, COBE, and SLA have won the international architectural design competition for the European Spallation Source (ESS), in Lund, Sweden. ESS will become the world’s largest andmost advanced facility for neutron-based research. The team also includes the engineering comapniesBuro Happold, NNE Pharmaplan and Transsolar. The architecture is inspired by one of the most important elements in the …
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