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Project • By Vincent Callebaut Architectures • Hotels
Metamorphosis Of The Hotel Des Postes
The Solar Dome and its Chrysalis, a Jewel Nestled in a Stone VesselFirst Prize Winner of the International Competition, Luxembourg CityIntroduction To The Metamorphosis And Energy SolidarityMetamorphosing is turning the caterpillar into a butterfly.Metamorphosing is not about starting again from scratch, it is about integrating the best of every era into our future. Metamorphosing is choosing to take part of one story rather than creating a new one. Metamorphosing is judging which elements of the past will form the basis of the future. Taking a stand for a mixed history, having audacity for others, the architect's role goes far beyond conservation or restoration.Metamorphosis architects, we are - above all - surgeons, repairing wounds and h... More
Project • By CUPA STONE • Hospitals
Lanchester Medical Centre
Lanchester Medical Centre has been finished in CUPA STONE innovative cladding system STONEPANEL™ to provide a traditional aesthetic for this new development in Lanchester (UK). A modern and sustainable building that meets the needs of the requirements of the smaller surgery that was located in the village. Edwards Architecture designed the project using BIM (Building Information Modelling). Completed in 2014, the building has been designed with the local environment in mind and finished in STONEPANEL™ Sahara to give a traditional finish which fits in with this protected area. Natural stone panels STONEPANEL™ Sahara are composed by multicolor quartzite with brown and grey tones, creating an elegant and bright look to this development. N... More
Project • By Ateliers Jean Nouvel • Museums
QATAR NATIONAL MUSEUM
Designed by world-renowned French architect Jean Nouvel, the upcoming National Museum of Qatar is inspired by the desert rose and will combine historic objects and contemporary influences, opening up a dialogue around the impact of rapid change. This museum will give voice to Qatar's heritage whilst celebrating its future. The National Museum of Qatar is built around Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani’s original palace, one of Qatar’s most recognizable landmarks and a building that served as a monument to a historic way of life in Qatar. This palace has a unique historical significance for the State of Qatar and has been recently fully restored. The palace will be a fitting central exhibit within the National Museum when it opens... More
Project • By Fondation Louis Vuitton • Museums
Foundation Louis Vuitton Museum
« A Dream Come True » by Bernard Arnault
The Fondation Louis Vuitton opens an exciting new cultural chapter for Paris. It brings the city a new space devoted to art — especially contemporary art — and above all a place for meaningful exchanges between artists and visitors from Paris, from France, and from the entire world. By encouraging spontaneous dialogue, the new Fondation seeks to inspire both emotion and contemplation.
This is a distinctive cultural initiative because the Fondation is private. It has been made possible thanks to the corporate patronage of LVMH and the Group’s companies, notably Louis Vuitton, reflecting the values shared by all the people of LVMH and its shareholders. The Fondation tran-scends the ephemeral pres... More
Project • By ZAS | Architects + Interiors • Universities
The Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence
Breaking barriers in engineering education: student-driven design drives enrollment at York University’s Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence
Setting benchmarks worldwide for engineering education, The Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence re-thinks campus hierarchy to foster modern ways of learning. Resulting from an intensive design process between ZAS Architects, The Lassonde School of Engineering, and York University, the world-class facility challenges past models with a modern approach rooted in student learning and empowerment. A hub for entrepreneurship, collaboration, and creativity, the facility’s design aims to advance engineering education and provide a platform to educate the next generation of engineers – The Ren... More
Project • By Aamodt / Plumb Architects • Private Houses
Modern Texas Prefab
Prefab Technology Combines withTraditional Japanese Craft in This Relaxed Modern Austin Home
Aamodt / Plumb was commissioned to design a home for a young family on a beautiful site on Lake Austin with only one catch: an incredibly compressed 12-month schedule. “12 months is extremely fast!” notes Aamodt. “Twelve months made us realize that we had to think very differently about how to do this project. What we did was to redesign the process of building a house.”
The architects built a complete Building Information Model (BIM) of the home in Revit before any construction happened. Then, to meet the tight schedule the young architects employed fast-tracking techniques typically used on large-scale projects and adapted them to the resid... More
Project • By HOK • Passenger Terminals
Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC)
“It is an innovative piece of architecture. The form is one of beauty and simplicity. The use of integrated design and modeling optimized the structure.”
AIA Technology in Architectural Practice Award Jury
As the premier transportation hub in Southern California, the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center brings together transit, dining, retail and entertainment options in an iconic terminal building.
ARTIC is a world-class gateway for Orange County’s transportation systems, including auto, bus and rail systems as well as future street car and high-speed trains. Iconic infrastructure projects like Broad Street Station in Philadelphia and the original Penn Station in New York City inspired the design of the long-span, diagr... More
Project • By Design International • Shopping Centres
Parma Urban District
Architecture firm Design International is delighted to introduce their latest design Parma Urban District; a three level retail destination situated in the Parma region of Northern Italy. The innovative architectural firm, which is headquartered in London, with further studios in Milan and Shanghai, and a soon-to-be Dubai location, demonstrate their vast experience with the creation of yet another unique and diverse design which is expected to open in April 2019 and attract over 10 million visitors per year.
Located on the old site of the Cucine Salvarani manufacturing plant near Parma, Parma Urban District is strategically placed adjacent to the A1 motorway Milano-Bologna which allows access to Milan in just 1 hour. The city of Par... More
Hong Kong International Airport Midfield Concourse fully operates
As a core part of the airport’s midfield expansion, the Midfield Concourse equips the Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) with sufficient handling capacity to strengthen the city’s competitiveness as a leading regional and international aviation hub. This project also symbolises a major achievement for the Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK), poised to embark on their expansion to a three runway system.
Located to the west of Terminal 1 and between the two existing runways at the airport, the five-level concourse has a total floor area of 105,000m2 with ceiling heights comparable to those of Terminal 1. There are 20 aircraft parking stands, 19 of which are bridge-served, including two Code F stands that are wide enough to cater for the... More
Project • By dwp | design worldwide partnership • Hospitals
Echuca Regional Health Hospital Redevelopment
The $66 million redevelopment of the Echuca Regional Health (ERH) Hospital delivers contemporary acute, sub-acute and ambulatory services for the regional community.
Key facilities include improved emergency services, medical imaging, inpatient accommodation, pharmacy, medical records and associated works. Delivery of this project is entirely as a BIM (Building Information Modelling) project, with dwp|suters managing the model and incorporating input from the engineering consultant and building services consultant. dwp|suters architectural proposal combines pragmatic health facility planning with a considered response to the geography and the existing built environment of Echuca.
Echuca is located at the confluence of three major ri... More
Project • By Urban Systems Office • Banks
Bundle tower for Bank of China in Changyuan
Using a generative process to incorporate site-specific qualities, London-based Urban Systems Office has created a tower that proposes alternatives to the generic open plan office building.
Departing from research into the evolution of the office typologies over the last 120 years, the design
employs an architectural system of 'bundled structural tubes' which vary in their diameter and spacing at specific heights throughout the tower.
The variations within the bundles are calibrated through the specific site access lines, views and sunlight exposure and create openings within the tower massing at the plinth and upper levels.
The resulting range of floorplan variations offers a unique set of qualities including light, views, shared s... More
Project • By A2F ARCHITECTS • Secondary Schools
The Mosfellsbær Preperatory High School
The first phase of FMOS, the new Upper Secondary School in Mosfellsbaer, provides space for up to 500 pupils. The building is intertwined with the landscape on the narrow plot, the diagonal lines of the building refer to the hills in the surroundings and one of the roofs turns into a green ramp to walk about on. Mosfellsbær is a town of approximately 9.000 inhabitants, situated 15 kilometers east of Reykjavik. It is the hometown of Iceland’s noble prize winner, writer Halldór Laxnes, from whom inspiration is sought: ”... and flowers grow on the roof”* – the landscape becomes the building which becomes landscape… The 12.000 sqm plot of the school is situated close to the town center and along Highway nr. 1, which lies through Mosfellsbær. Th... More
Project • By STRABAG Belgium nv • Care Homes
PPP Care Campus De Maasmeander Maasmechelen
The project includes the construction of the care campus in Maasmechelen within the framework of the RUP Oud Mechelen plan. The care program involves 120 single rooms, 2 double rooms, 10 rooms for short stay and 35 service flats on 4 aboveground levels (9.750 m²). The residents and their visitors can use the underground car park and a bicycle parking (2.000 m²). “De Maasmeander” is a part of the PPP agreement of the “gemeentebestuur Maasmechelen”. The private partner OCM nv, partly on behalf of the municipality of Maasmechelen, concluded a Design Build Finance (DBF) agreement with the construction firm STRABAG Belgium, responsible for the turn-key completion.
A new district has arisen in the neighborhood of the central park and combines... More
Project • By SCAPE • Community Centres
Community and Sports Center "Paul Meurice" Paris
The most ambitious objective of the ZAC (zone d’aménagement concerté, a French legal definition for a specific development zone) in the Porte des Lilas area, located in north-east Paris, is to modify the relationship between Paris, encircled by its beltway, the Boulevard Périphérique and the incorporated suburbs situated immediately outside this beltway. It is not a question of effacing the presence of this infrastructure, which is so important in the life of the Parisian agglomeration. It is a matter of giving it a new identity, of transforming it into a passing phase in which one can discover the evolution of the city. It is not a matter of denying the particular natures of two urban fragments built in tw... More
Theatre de Stoep in Spijkenisse
UNStudio’s design for Theatre responds to the current cultural invigoration of the city by merging the archetypal function of a theatre - that of creating a world of illusion and enchantment - with the specific requirements of a regional theatre and its requisite to cater to the varied needs of the local community. The theatre is therefore designed with a dual emphasis on the chimeric nature of the world of the stage and the social aspects of the theatre experience.
Ben van Berkel: “In contrast to today’s mediatised culture, theatre offers the participatory experience of the live event, often appropriately referred to as ‘liveliness’: the ‘magic of live theatre’, understood as the strange, elusive energy between audience and performer,... More