Archive for November, 2009
Ring for a science
This science centre, assemble from 10 blocks, that are connected together to the ring shape designed for quickly changing Hamburg by OMA contains exhibition rooms, aquarium and theatre. The building is going to be a new symbol of connection between the harbour and the city and at the same time represents city´s interest […]
Kahn’s Exeter Short Film by Alex Roman
CG Shortfilm about Louis Kahn’s Phillips Exeter Academy Library. Footage from “The Third & The Seventh” project for illustrating Mundos Digitales 2009 conference. Done with 3dsmax, Vray, AE and Premiere. Main theme soundtrack it’s The Divine Comedy’s “Laika’s Theme” from “Absent Friends” album.thedivinecomedy.com
Xeritown
X-architects, architecture office from Dubai, have design huge blocks for new city in the city Dubai. Main difference is that this project is not vertical, but is classical horizontal town. This multifunctional space is also minimising energy consumption. So this project is try to bring to Dubai something new with principles of old.
Mexican architects in Dubai
The competition for a residential and office buildings in complex Marina Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, enters also by Rojkind Arquitectos (Michel Rojkind) with Office for Urbanism (Antonio Gomez-Palacio). The focal point of their program are central high rise buildings, that are the gateway and the landmark. Their design reminds dynamic and roughness of […]
The station as a city block covered by dunes
Grimshaw Architects won prestigious Lubetkin Prize (gave by Royal Institute of British Architects – RIBA) for Southern Cross Station finished last year in Australian city Melbourne. Central huge hall is surrounded by vistas in every direction with entrances from every street, which made space easily obvious. The concept based on a wavy roof, that is […]
OMA and a mega project in Persian gulf
Rem Koolhaas had created a huge tourist village called Jebel al Jais Mountain Resort, on a mountain in the United Arab Emirates. The concept rised from analyses, that in UAE, the relaxation has become the ubiquitous condition and it has to be attractive. So OMA decided not to convert the nature, as it usual in […]
Zaha Hadid replaced keen to curved shapes
The largest investment and construction in Russia, of these days, are exhibition halls with residential skyscraper, Expocenter, located in a centre of the Moscow, designed by Zaha Hadid. The main aim of the horizontal space is to house the exposition and conference halls. In the ground-floor author created open, but cover place […]
Zebra Imaging 3D Prints (holography)
Success of Norwegian architects Snøhetta
Architectural office Snøhetta stands after this year´s summer Serpentine gallery in London´s Hyde Park, won the competition for a new complex of buildings, „gateway“ for Ras Al-Khaimah, the new capital city of the United Arab Emirates. The confidence trick became a central construction, a weightless-act tower, that resembles a cobre as a symbol of that […]
Multifuncional indoor space integrate classical urbanisme of Berlin
New building called The James Simon Gallery designed by David Chipperfield is orientating to elements of classical styles with his conception. The building create by architect as a main gate to an island of old museum in Berlin, Germany, it is a demonstration of a conceptual work generating since 1998. Object will be entrance […]