In 2001, the announcement that Beijing would be host of 2008 World Olympics was made and so the journey to prepare Beijing for the 16-day event began. There was an
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Not so far from Dallas City‘s concrete jungle, shimmering lights and labyrinthine expressways is the Trinity River Audubon Centre, located in the largest urban hardwood forest in the United States.
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One World Trade Center an all defying glass tower that literally pokes through it’s sky line as the tallest building in New York City and the fifth tallest in the
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The City of Mons, looking to breathe life by the addition of a convention centre, enlisted Jewish Museum architect: Daniel Libeskind. With a site located in proximity to the 17th
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The Neugebauer House is located in Naples, Florida, in the luxurious residential area of Fort Charles Dr. Overlooking the Doubloon Bay, this house was designed on a wedge-shaped site with
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Controversial starchitect Frank Gehry has over the years developed tough skin. He has been accused of creating buildings that are objects of spectacle rather than functional spaces. He has been
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The Kaleidoscope is an interesting invention coined by Sir David Brewster in 1817. The word ‘Kaleidoscope’ is a combination of ancient Greek words which would all come to refer to
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Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall is a world-class performance venue to the privileged people of Los Angeles and a tribute to Walt Disney’s devotion to the arts, an idea
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Elite architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group was called to propose a mixed-use development at the intersection of Howe and Beach streets in downtown Vancouver. Canada‘s premier real estate developer Westbank,
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The New Acropolis Museum was designed to express the imposing nature of the Acropolis, a town at the very top of the city of Athens and one of the most
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Public facilities play a major role in setting the mood of a city. Most often than not; libraries, museums and other public amenities lack the spirit or oomph to inspire
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Cidade das Artes is a massively impressive concrete building standing in the middle of two busy highways in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The architect took over a site in the
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Birthed as a vision of Por-Shih Lin, Chairman of Shihlien Chemical Industrial (Jiangsu) Co. Ltd. – the Building on the Water is a 11 000 sqm office complex that “floats”
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When you are travelling into London, one of the first buildings to strike your eye will be the Gherkin no matter which direction you are getting in from. Officially referred to
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Following a high-profile international competition (that included high profile names like Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Richard Rogers) lasting for six months, Foster + Partners was appointed to design the first full-block
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Pier 55 is a public park and performance space on Manhattan’s lower west side commissioned by a new non-profit organisation, funded primarily by the Diller – von Furstenberg family, which
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The Sleuk Rith Institute, a new institute and genocide memorial in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, brings together a museum, research centre, graduate school, document archives and research library.
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When it comes to religious architecture, most designers agree that the form has an obligation to be symbolic. We see this in civilisations gone by – from the Mayan ziggurats
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This mixed-use project, Marina + Beach Towers by Oppenheim Architecture + Design, suggests a fluidity that merges sky and water, responding to the built environment and the landscape. This is
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The Dune House, half-sunk into the dunes on the northern coast of the island of Terschelling, rises over the landscape and overlooks the dunes providing a breath-taking view of the
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In 2012 the Autostadt in Wolfsburg received a new addition, the Porsche Pavilion; which has rendered a characteristic silhouette that has grown to be a striking icon within the theme
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This community masjid, or mosque by HOK, is the spiritual centre of the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre’s residential development. A series of outdoor courtyards provide a formal
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This seafront house by Duangrit Bunnag Architects is situated on an overgrown forestland of pine trees that has been uninhabited for 10 years. The client was enthusiastic about a vacation
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Makoko is a cluster of communities living on water in Nigeria’s most populous city, Lagos, at the heart of a lagoon that’s existed for the past 100 years. The settlement now
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Snohetta’s design for the Clarion Hotel Energy was completed and opened for guests on August 20th 2014. Located in Stavanger, Norway, the hotel stands as an architectural landmark and one
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As part of the former Soviet Union, the urbanism and architecture of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan on the Western coast of the Caspian Sea, was heavily influenced by the
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Located towards the Southern edge of Chaoyang Park, one of the largest parks in Beijing and China in general, Chaoyang Park Plaza is a result of the conception of the
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MVRDV is set to oversee the construction of a new “spatially-flexible” tower with a twisting “hourglass figure” near Vienna’s world famous Gasometers. The 110-meter “Turm mit Taille” (Tower with Waist)
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In an expo in 2010 at the center of China’s largest city, Shanghai, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) was commissioned to design the Pavilion that would be the be all and end
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It’s not every day you come across architects daring enough to investigate and design tall wooden structures – Tham & Videgård Arkitekter are doing just that. Planned for a site
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