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The campus of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz is located close to the city center in Palais Meran, the former residence of Archduke Johann, dating from 1841. Together with MUMUTH, the university’s house of music and concert hall designed by UNStudio, and the former horse stables, which are now home to Theater im Palais (TIP), it forms a square.In 2011 balloon won a competition aiming at renovating TIP, which is home to the drama department, and redesigning the square linking Palais, MUMUTH and TIP.balloon always try to look at the bigger picture when they start working on a project. Their work is based on a context-sensitive approach towards existing buildings and their surroundings. In this particular case, the urban plann... More

The Lyric Theatre Complex is a celebration of the world of theatre as an integrated and inviting place of performance and social gathering. The Lyric Theatre Complex is located in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, an ambitious 40 hectare waterfront cultural quarter which combines open public space with a wide range of cultural venues. Here museums, theatres and concert halls intermingle to create a vibrant district for Hong Kong, where different disciplines within the arts can interact, collaborate, innovate and develop.Alongside the wide variety of cultural offerings, the District also comprises a mixed-use residence, office buildings, and 23 hectares of public space and squares, all of which are connected along a two k... More

From Amsterdam to Frankfurt in 53 minutesUNStudio partners with Hardt Hyperloop and presents its vision for the Station of the Future.The UNStudio Futures Team (UNSFutures) presented its vision for the ‘Station of the Future’ at the first edition of HyperSummit, which took place in Utrecht, the Netherlands and was organised by Hardt Hyperloop. The first edition of the HyperSummit was focused on urgency, research and collaboration, with numerous partners speaking about their contribution to the possibilities for realising the European hyperloop.Special attention was also devoted to the kick-off study of the Hyperloop Implementation Programme (HIP), a study which looks at implementation questions relating to the Amsterdam-Frankfurt project.Ur... More

Jing’an Ronghui Plaza consists of two towers, one high-end residential buildings and serviced apartments. The programme is distributed within four individual volumes. The residential and office towers - linked by a ground floor retail layer - are placed across the site to optimise sun orientation and reduce the casting of shadows on the plot, while simultaneously reducing impact on the surrounding buildings. The facade design for Jing’an Ronghui Plaza was developed around two principle elements. The horizontal ribbons that wrap around balconies and facade openings and the vertical shifts in the ribbons towards the main street which add a vertical articulation to the buildings and ground them on the site. Large glass openings a... More

Beulah International select UNStudio's proposal for Australia’s tallest tower from designs submitted by six of the world's leading architecture firms Beulah International today announced that 'Green Spine', the design proposal submitted by UNStudio with Cox Architecture has been selected as the winning design for their latest project, Southbank by Beulah, a more than $2 billion mixed-use tower which will be the tallest tower in Australia, located in the heart of Melbourne.The winning proposal was selected by a seven-member jury. Other shortlisted teams included BIG, Coop Himmelb(l)au, MAD, MVRDV and OMA.Ben van Berkel: "We are truly delighted that our design has been selected as the winning proposal for this very exciting project! For... More

MAD reveals its proposal for the “Southbank by Beulah” tower competition. Defying the typical glass, box-like buildings of Melbourne that appear detached from the city’s historic parks and natural local terrain, MAD’s organic design introduces a silhouette of natural forms – mountain, tree, cloud – into the dense city center, offering a distinct and iconic scheme for the skyline, that reconnects citizens with nature.Selected as the only firm from Asia by Beulah International, MAD is competing alongside BIG, Coop Himmelb(l)au, MVRDV, OMA, and UNStudio to conceive a mixed-use program of more than 220,000sqm for the heart of Melbourne – a piece of urban infrastructure that re-thinks the commercial, residential, retail, and public spaces of the... More

Budapest, Friday, 20 April 2018 (MTI) – The joint design by UNStudio and Buro Happold Engineering will be the blueprint for Budapest’s new bridge to connect South Buda and Csepel. The results of the international design competition for the new bridge over the Danube were announced in Budapest on Friday afternoon.Of the 17 entries submitted for the design competition, the first prize has been awarded to the design submitted by the consortium of UNStudio and Buro Happold Engineering. UNStudio was the firm responsible for the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam.According to the assessment of the Evaluation Jury, the design for the two-pylon stayed girder bridge, with three traffic lanes in each direction and the possibility of tramway transport, is t... More

15-Nov-2017 Designed by Ben van Berkel / UNStudio, CapitaLand’s new Raffles Cityis a sustainableurban hub for living, working and leisure located in Hangzhou, one of China’s most picturesque cities.It forms the eighth Raffles City developmentin China. Situatedin Qianjiang New Town near Qiantang River, this mixed-use development becomes a major landmark along the green axis of the city’s new CBD.Arich mixof 24/7 functions occupiesalmost 400,000m2within two streamlinedtowers set atop apodium and landscaped plaza. Conceived as a lively vertical neighbourhood and transit hub and featuring stunning views of the river and West Lake areas, the sixty-storey, 250 metre-tallhighrises contain residential units,Grade A offices, theConrad Hotel... More

A new kind of high-rise for Dubai UNStudio, in collaboration with Werner Sobek,was invited by the wasl Development Group to design a new kind of high-rise for the city of Dubai that would act as a benchmark for both the region and for the wasl Development Group itself. The project is locatedin an exceptional central position in Dubai’s network - along Sheikh Zayed Road, the main thoroughfare that connects the Emirates north to south - anddirectly opposite the BurjKhalifa and when completed will be one ofthe world’s tallest ceramic facades. Dubai’s reputation as a transfer hub is rapidly transforming into one of a long stay destination, especially during the cooler winter months.The city also enjoys an impressive infrastructure.When... More

Designing a vertical community - the Canaletto tower in London has been completed The 22,000m2 Canaletto residential tower in London employs the concept of clustering several floors together to establish a group of ‘vertical communities’. Offering waterside living, the 31-storey tower comprises studios, one and two-bedroom apartments, a variety of three bedrooms and one distinct penthouse with a full rooftop. Canaletto also includes shared amenities such as a swimming pool, health club, media room and resident’s club lounge with a terrace on the 24th floor. UNStudio's design for the tower, which is located in the London borough of Islington, incorporates the remodeling of the facade, a streamlining of the building’s mass and a cont... More

UNStudio and SCAPE team up with a neuroscientist and interactive technology experts to tackle one of the most common work ailments, stress. The multidisciplinary team developed a series of modular escape pods, where you can immerse yourself into a playful and interactive environment in order to immediately reduce your stress levels. The research is an initial step towards finding spatial stress reducers. By measuring tests with wearable sensors on users inside the prototype pods the team hopes to come closer to positively affecting both our mental and physical health at work. More from the architects: Can a space adapt to your stress levels? UNStudio and SCAPE join forces with a multidisciplinary team of experts to tackle stress in... More

Transparent Shell is awarded GOLD at the 2016 AAP American Architecture Prize The PONE ARCHITECTURE Experience Pavilion (Guangzhou Design Week) attempted to rediscover the alternating potential of organized construction. Urged by the question on how to integrate architecture to further interact and blend cities, environments, human beings and space, it created the construction unit “Transparent Shell”. Meanwhile, it is also a reflection on creating and recreating. The whole structure consists of 30 main bone models and 3 groups of large curves. Through multiple layers of woven and crisscross transparent films, an interface of dynamic tension is unfolded with the whole space filled with flowing dynamics. Between concurring and conflic... More

SEFAR Architecture fabric diffuses natural light softly and gently through unique glass apertures inside a new exhibition area at theStädel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. The museum houses over 2,900 paintings, 600 sculptures, 500 photographs, and around 100,000 drawings and graphic reproductions dating from the Middle Ages to the present. The 279 square-foot underground museum extension allows warm natural light to filter into the 180 by 156 foot exhibition hall through the 195 circular skylights. The exhibition area is illuminated naturally through glass apertures between 5 and 8 feet in diameter. A shade system with solar protection blinds and two membranes of light-diffusing and acoustically-active SEFAR® ArchitecturePVDF fabric in e... More

A two-hour drive away from New York, UNStudio has created a holiday house that is lodged languidly between the hills. At the same time it seems to draw itself up to view the landscape. The concept for Villa NM is so simple and effective, it is almost perverted. From the hilly country grew the idea to continue the landscape by creating a split level. In the words of Mr Ben van Berkel: “The house moves on, over and with the landscape.” The first difference in level follows the slope of the hill, the second one moves away from the ground to give a view of the surroundings from a higher perspective. It is a clever idea to bridge the split level by twisting some of the surfaces a quarter turn - a wall that twists on its central axle horiz... More