Bamboo Skyscraper | CRG Architects
Architect’s Village - Singapore A skyscraper built entirely with bamboo? Weird but true. Bamboo Skyscraper is an attempt by Carlos R. Gomez and designers at CRG Architects to draw a sustainable ...
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NEXT7 | 2015 Architectural Competition Announced!
NEXT7 | 2015 Architectural Competition Announced! For the second consecutive year Arch2O would like to call upon and challenge architects, artists, urban planners, engineers, designers, students and ...
Afsharian House | ReNa Architects
Afsharian House This family home is clad in timber and is perched on a residential street edge in Kermanshah. The entrance is sculpted from this form filling block, looking like an intimate alleyway ...
Shortlist for 2015 Finlandia Prize of Architecture Announced
The second year of the Finlandia Prize of Architecture is heralded by this new shortlist. The prize was founded in 2014 by the Finnish Association of Architecture, which awards "...contemporary ...
ISIS Destroys Palmyra’s 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel
ISIS Destroys Palmyra's 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel: After the beheading Khaled al-Asaad, the 82-year-old retired chief archaeologist of the city - by extremist group Isis - before mutilating his ...
Herzog & de Meuron Claim the 2015 RIBA Jencks Award
Announced on the 19th of August, Herzog & de Meuron have received the RIBA Jencks award, a title reserved for "an individual (or practice) that has recently made a major contribution ...
The Capers | RT+Q Architects
The Capers The Capers, a mixed-residential development by RT+Q Architects in collaboration with YTL, are a set of 2 double-towers located in Sentul, a suburban sprawl 5km north of the Kuala Lumpur ...
The Haiti Cathedral | Urban Office Architecture
The Haiti Cathedral After the devastating earthquake in 2010, Haiti has been in a mode of chaos and disrepair. With technological interventions playing their part in rebuilding the city, somewhere ...
ARCHIDIRECTOR | Federico Babina
What if architecture was inspired by the fantastic world of films? Italian architect and illustrator Federico Babina imagined this exact scenario and came up with "Archidirector" - a series of 27 ...
Gammel Hellerup Extension | BIG
Gammel Hellerup Extension Following the completion of the multi-purpose hall of the Danish high school in 2013, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has revisited Gammel Hellerup to implant a space for ...
Hungary Pavilion | Tamas Levai
Showcased in the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, Tamas Levai's design incorporated a plexiglas model of Gömböc (a Hungarian object with two equilibria) within the pavilion structure and concept. Levai ...
Seoul Skygarden | MVRDV
Seoul Skygarden With its round-the-clock work culture and a party harder motto, Seoul has been taking over as the new party capital of the world giving strict competition to the likes of Paris and ...