Architect Bernard Tschumi’s Blue condominium tower located on the Lower East Side, New York. Designed with an original envelope pattern sets the structure apart from surrounding buildings, thus adding a bit of an eclectic attitude to a normally dreary skyline. I guess it looks better in the architect’s rendering

Australian Architects Peter Poulet and Michael Harvey contemplate concrete’s green side with The Concrete House, a free-flowing assembly of gravity-secured precast columns and slabs that the designers call a “commitment to living sustainably�. With renewable energy systems, a green roof, rainwater harvesting and waste minimization, the design tries to prove that concrete is an environmentally [...]

Group Danhos has commissioned the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) to design Torre Bicentenario in the centre of Mexico City which will become the tallest building in Latin America. Completion is scheduled for 2010 to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Mexico’s Independence.

Everyone is talking about Burj Dubai (meaning Dubai Tower), from newspaper columns to architectural magazines to radio talks… As of 21 July 2007, the tower’s developers reported the Burj Dubai’s height as 512.1 meters (1,680.1 feet), with 141 completed floors, surpassing the Taipei 101 (509.2 m - 1,671 ft) as the tallest high-rise building in [...]

This installation, called Tsunagu - Japanese for “connect�- by architect Kengo Kuma, of a concept home based on traditional Japanese interiors was one of the talking points at the Salone del Mobile, Milan this year. It was commissioned by one of Japan’s largest developers of home real estate property company Mitsui Fudosan Residential, which plans [...]

Architect Glenn Howells‘ design for Time Residences in Dubai is getting everyone’s attention. 30-storey apartment tower is powered by solar energy, the entire building turns through 360 degrees over the course of seven days. The building will contain 200 one- to four-bedroom apartments.

Would you like to see how people live around the world? Then visit Normal Room. This web site has images of homes from all over the world that includes interesting places, such as Ethiopia, New Zealand and Argentina. You can search the image database and explore the differences and similarities in architecture and home decoration [...]

When computer aided design (CAD) became a common ground for designers, everyone’s vision was not to draw but also to build it in the computer and then drive the machinery to build it. Softwares, such as AutoCAD, Revit, build electronic versions of buildings, and a lot of architectural cabinetry is produced from CAD drawings using [...]

The Cube is a unique and innovative landmark tower that will occupy a prime location within Dubai Sports City. The Cube Condo Residence is the first German developed, designed and contracted tower to be built in Dubai and the world’s first integrated athletics, sports and lifestyle venue. In short, The Cube is prestigious condo residence [...]

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.

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 [...]