Grand Canyon deserves respect
I had seen the concept images, and never thought it would ever be built. When I saw the news tonight, I was shocked. They did built the so-called “sky walk”. I have been to Grand Canyon’s both south and north rims couple of times, and every time I was mesmerized by the beauty of it. [...]
Songjiang Hotel, Shanghai
Atkins has won an international competition to design a five-star resort hotel set within a beautiful water-filled quarry in the Songjiang district close to Shanghai in China. Its stunning concept designs inspired by the natural water and landscape features of the quarry captured the imagination of judges to quash competition from two other international firms.
The Expocenter Project
Closely located to the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC), the largest investment and construction project in Russia, and Europe as a whole, the Expocenter Project offers the city a new exposition venue, hotel, and residential development by world famous architect Zaha Hadid.
Santiago Calatrava is Hoping His 80 South Street Realized
With its peerless architectural design, the Eighty South Street tower stands conspicuous against the skyline of New York City. This 835-foot-tall residential building houses just ten ultra-exclusive townhouse condominiums, with a starting bid for each unit at US$ 29 million. Each townhouse, contained within its own individual cube with roughly 10,000 square feet of floor [...]
2007 Design Award Winners
Over 400 submissions from 50 states and 12 foreign countries poured in for the 2007 Design Awards, sponsored by the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Housing project in Los Angeles
Situated in an area of downtown Los Angeles, California fast becoming one of the largest homeless populations in the country, Skid Row Housing’s 43,000 sf Rainbow Apartments examines the role of creating a space of transformation within an extreme socioeconomic and urban context.
Autonomous Transportation System
Photo: A computer rendered image of the S.A.T. Project running through an airport lounge. According to the UN, by 2030 about 5 billion people are expected to live in cities. Together China, India, and Brazil are projected to have as many urban inhabitants as the entire developed world (Hinrichsen, 2002).
Royal Haskoning’s winning design
Nakheel invited architects to make a concept master plan design for Palm Jebel Ali, just off the coast of Dubai. The winning design submitted by Royal Haskoning and D103 International consists of a surface area of 300,000m² to be used for sports activities, residential housing, a retail sector, and office buildings.
Tabanlioglu Architects design Istanbul’s sparkling Tower
Istanbul is a city of youthful dynamism with its eye on the high-tech future and the profits and innovations. The 261 meter tower will be one of the highest structures in the central business district of Istanbul. Rising upward, the building gets slightly thinner. At the fourth level, it slightly broadens downwards and the glass [...]
Gehry Unveils Design for Medical Center
Architect Frank Gehry presented his design for a new Alzheimer’s research center in Las Vegas over the weekend, unveiling an uneven stack of blocks anchoring a swooping trellis made of Gehry’s signature contorted steel. The latest work from the celebrated architect will house the Lou Ruvo Alzheimer’s Institute, a proposed center for the research and [...]
