Solar Powered Masdar Institute by Foster + Partners
Foster + Partners officially inaugurated the solar powered Masdar Institute. The net energy positive institute represents Abu Dhabi’s contribution in pioneering sustainable technologies, and it showcases a multitude of efficient systems and design strategies that allow the development to run without carbon based fuels. The building incorporates a lot of solar electric arrays to be [...]
Gorgeous Blooming Skyscraper for Dubai
The Blooming Tower by Mekene Architecture are design to responds to environmental changes with a kinetic facade that opens and closes throughout the day. The mixed use recreational facility combines playgrounds, a library, a conference space and picnic areas under a lightweight tower covered in sail cloth material. The 170 meter tower designed for Dubai [...]
Stunning Bangaroo Sky Village in Sydney
Designed by Australian architecture student Josephine Turner, she proposed a skyscraper complex network of skylinks that connect elevated urban plazas for the Bangaroo district of Sydney, Australia. Her design, the Bangaroo Sky Village, incorporates the elements of the skyscraper that Turner would like the public to rethink. For example, her towers are designed as stacked [...]
New Singapore University of Technology and Design by UNStudio
UNStudio’s design for the new SUTD campus directly reflects SUTD’s curriculum, using the creative enterprise of the school to facilitate a cross disciplinary interface; interaction is established between the professional world, the campus, and the community at large. The design for the campus offers an opportunity to embrace innovation and creativity through a non linear [...]
Las Vegas Veer Towers Gets LEED Gold
The new CityCenter, which opened this past summer, diverges from the standard Las Vegas fare with some more sophisticated buildings that make significant green strides. Six of the CityCenter buildings have been awarded LEED Gold certification, including the Veer Towers residential development, designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy Jahn. Fortunately, Jahn’s residential towers aren’t burning [...]
New Central Business District in China
Designed by Henn StudioB, the Berlin design and research studio of Henn Architekten, the Central Business District is located where the Ou Jiang river meets the East China Sea and will comprise five towers of differing heights. The towers will be situated in a staggered row to provide views of the river, while at street [...]
Fascinating World of Living Tree House in Germany
Located in Rheinau Baden-Linx, Germany, World of Living Tree House is a rather unusual type of establishment. It was conceived to show off WeberHaus‘ homes, but in a fun, interactive way and you know we can’t be mad at that. Designed by Baumraum, the tree house’s main body rests on a structural system of seven [...]
Spanish Double Skin Tower by Hoz Fontán Arquitectos
Design by Hoz Fontán Arquitectos, this striking new tower in the town of Irun, Spain features a double skin and series of rooftop gardens to set it apart from other mundane office buildings. It is built over an existing underground parking garage and it rises above the complex to offer vast views of the surrounding [...]
Salvaged Cedar Longhouse by Alfred Waugh Architects
Designed by Alfred Waugh Architects, the First Nations community has a new place to gather and celebrate in their beautiful, new center at the University of Victoria, B.C. Christened the First People’s House. The design construction inspired by traditional Coast Salish longhouses. Clad in salvaged western red cedar and partially topped with a green roof, [...]
Jean Michel Cousteau Resort in Fiji Island
The Jean Michel Cousteau Fiji Islands Resort is a gorgeous little resort on peninsula next to some amazing diving and snorkeling in a marine reserve. Traditional Fijian architecture coupled with an organic garden, a plan to restore the surrounding eco system, and a community foundation that gives back to the local people are just a [...]
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