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41 Cooper Square - Morphosis Architects
The Cooper Union’s new building at 41 Cooper Square—a technologically advanced academic facility – is located on the east side of Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets. In September 2009, 41 Cooper Square will house the college’s Albert Nerken School of Engineering and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences along with additional facilities for […]
New Acropolis Museum by Bernard Tschumi Architects
New Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, designed by Bernard Tschumi Architects will open in June.The museum will provide a permanent house to archaeological treasures from the Acropolis. Top image: main entrance lobby. Photo by Nikos Daniilidis. Above: exterior. Photo by Christian Richters.Glass walls will allow exhibits to be viewed in natural light, as they would […]
Ford Calumet Environmental Center | Studio Gang Architects
The City of Chicago Department of Environment and the State of Illinois partnered to develop a new environmental center in the Calumet area just south of Chicago. Ford Calumet Environmental Center, demonstrating the sustainable principle of reuse, cost-effective and innovative design, designed by Chicago-based architect firm Studio Gang Architects. A very good attempt of using […]
Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec
Denmark-based architecture firm BIG teamed up with Fugere Architectes to create this proposal for the Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec competition. The main feature of the design is a grand green roof that slopes at quite a precarious angle, but is accessible for people to walk on. The sweeping form surrounds two […]
Centre Pompidou Metz by Shigeru Ban
Inspired by the technical properties of Chinese hats and bridges, the nearly complete Centre Pompidou-Metz will be a satellite branch of the Centre Pompidou modern art museum in Paris.Architects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines designed the building to have a “superstructure” - a curved roof made of wooden hexagonal units supported by a central […]
Manitoba Hydro / KPMB Architects
Manitoba Hydro is the major energy utility in the Province of Manitoba, the fourth largest energy utility in Canada and offers some of the lowest electricity rates in the world. Owned by the provincial government, nearly all of its electricity comes from self-renewing water power. Its new headquarters tower, Manitoba Hydro Place, is the first […]
New icon for London
Close to the „gherkin“ (author: Foster and Partners) or Lloyd´s bank (author: Richard Rogers), in prestiqious london bussines district will soon rise up smaller ecological skyscraper, that so soon has also a nickname derived from his typical shape, „can of ham“.
The real hight of the building was a lot reduced, because the view from the […]
„Millenium Eye“ in Beijing
Chine want to be the top one in everything, so nobody will be surprise that they will have another the biggest. Yes there will be the biggist wheel, will be tall 208 metres, which is an extra 73 metres more than Millenium Eye in London. Name is The Great Wheel of China and it should […]
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THE 2007 ‘LIVE’ ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION
COMPETITION
This year’s project is theoretical with a practical cause. We are asking for a study of ametonymized object in the midst of ‘rupture’. For this we require 2 drawings/panels: The first is the ‘changed’: Design of the Center of Metaphysical Techniques. The second is the metonymized or ‘rupted’ object: The interrupted act of the manifestation […]
