The "Esker Haus" (esker stands for "stratified geological formation"), designed by Plasma Studio in San Candido (Italy), is a single family dwelling located on top of a '60s house. The addition has been conceived as a protrusion of the original building, forming part of its structure, but gradually differentiates until adopting its own language. It's […]
Images of RAK Convention and Exhibition Centre, designed by Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf (OMA) for th new Gateway City in Ras Al Khaimah (United Arab Emirates)… The development comprises a facility for displays and conferences, hotels, offices, apartments, shops and restaurants… [dezeen]
The contractor charged with building Santiago Calatrava's Chicago Spire, announced that works are starting this very month (May 2007), to end in 2010 [ELPAIS.com / elmundo.es]. source > move your mind
The Oscar Niemeyer Cultural Center in Goiânia is a big building complex (17,000 sqmtrs) dedicated to art, named after the renown architect, who has never designed anything in that city. The scheme is simple: four differently shaped and destined volumes on a rectangular esplanade… [ ARCOweb]
Foster + Partners unveiled a huge urban development in Abu Dhabi, describing it as the first city with no carbon emissions…"zero carbon, zero waste city"…Inauguration is scheduled for the end of 2009 [dezeen]. source > move your mind
VilLA NM, designed by UNStudio – Ben van Berkel in Upstate New York >>>
Beijing > Ma Yansong (MAD Office) proposes to convert the Tianamen Square, designed to resemble Moscow's Red Square, into a green park…[Guardian] / Tiananmen on Google Maps Video interview >>> source > Archinect
Milan > Images of the 2007 Design Week > designboom
Johnston Marklee & Associates' design for the Hill House, situated in Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles – California), was conceived under conditions generated by difficulties pertaining to construction site…The scheme of the house capitalizes these limitations deriving from the lot and the constraints imposed by building law, turning them into the opportunity to mouldonly apparently fickle […]
New York… Brooklyn > Due to insufficient budget funds, the Visual and Performing Arts Library, designed by Enrique Norten, won't be built anymore. The 135-million USD library, intended to be part of the BAM Cultural District, could only be carried out through private contributions… [Curbed / NYT / Gothamist]
Information about the 2007 AIA Honor Awards > Architectural Record
Special > Images from "hEX", exhibition dedicated to Contemporary Argentinean Architecture, going on at the CCEBA (Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires) until June 2, 2007 >>>
