ICRC Logistic Complex | group8
The ICRC Logistic Complex, designed and built from 2008-2011 by group8 in Geneva, Switzerland is a tame, mundane building made interesting and new by the implementation of a facetted design and the ...
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The Martian Embassy | LAVA
This is quite an interesting project. Of that, there is no doubt or denying. The Martian Embassy, by LAVA, seems to me a bit like the Zany Brainies of my childhood. It is embassy, school, and shop ...
Shan-shui City | MAD architects
Designed by the Chinese based firm, MAD architects, The 'Shan-Shui City' concept dates back to ancient times of the mountain-water worship, of locating cities by observing the earth and examining the ...
Taipei Pop Music Center Proposal | A. Asadov Architectural Studio
Monumental projects have a long history and place in architectural discourse and investigation. Of this there is no doubt, whether one looks to the Memorial of Isaac Newton or the skyscrapers which ...
The FRAC Centre | Jakob + MacFarlane Architects
A french-based firm, Jakob+MacFarlane, has dedicated its work to explore digital technology both as a conceptual consideration and as a means of fabrication, using new materials as a possibility to ...
Saxo Bank | 3XN
In 2004 Saxo Banking initiated an international competition for the design of a new bank to be constructed in Copenhagen, Denmark, which was won by 3XN. Four years later in 2008, the structure was ...
Pavilion 21 MINI Opera Space | Coop Himmelb(l)au
Reminiscent of a tame, unassuming stone laced with crystalline outgrowths, the Pavilion 21 MINI Opera Space by Coop Himmelb(l)au is a smart little building. The major design challenge faced by the ...
Peace Pavilion | AZC
As part of ArchTriumph, AZC (Atelier Zündel Cristea) have designed the Peace Pavilion in London, in the Museum Gardens in Bethnal Green, London E2 9PA. The Pavilion highlights the importance of Peace ...
Helsinki Central Library | OODA
In response to the competition held by the city of Helsinki in 2012 for a new central library, OODA summited this proposal with a total area of 10,100 square meters. When designing this building OODA ...
Little Shining Man | Heather and Ivan Morrison
In 1902 Alexander Gram Bell figured out a way to craft a large-scale flying machine that was light enough for air travel. His invention, the tetrahedral kite, never became a form of air travel, but ...
Dorobanti Tower | Zaha Hadid Architects
Another one of Zaha Hadid Architects’s controversial project proposals, Dorobanti Tower shows a different side of Hadid’s work that strays from her usual futuristic and sculpturesque elongated ...
Bar Oppenheimer | Tobias Rehberger
Bar Oppenheimer, an intricate and at times confusing array of stripes- going every which way- and objects transported from somewhere else ,make quite an impression on initial glance as one first ...