September 2018

Mediopadana station, is a new high speed train station in Italy between Milan and Bologna designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. Reggio nell’Emilia, the capital of the Emilia Romagna Province is today a progressive and prosperous city situated on Italy’s northern flat plain ‘Padana’. In 2002, the City of Reggio Emilia contracted Calatrava to create a new gateway […]

Mahallat Residential Building No3, designed by Tehran based architecture firm CAAT Studio, is a 3-story residential building with a total area of 290.0 m2 in Mahallat, Iran. Text description provided by the architects. The project is located on a residential periphery of Mahallat, 262 kilometers southwest of Tehran with the hot and dry climate. The […]

LOOM, an Adaptable, Wearable, and Flexible 3D Printed Dress by Maria Alejandra Mora-Sanchez LOOM by Maria Alejandra Mora-Sanchez is an expandable, adaptable, wearable and flexible 3d printed dress that adapts to all body types and body changes. Houston-based designer Maria Alejandra Mora-Sanchez is paving the way for 3D printed textiles with the launch of a […]

Milan Expo 2015: over 1,000 bamboo panels clad the roof of China’s Milan Expo pavilion, which features an elaborate structure that merges the profile of the Beijing skyline with a mountain landscape. Rejecting the notion of cultural pavilion as an object in a plaza, the China Pavilion is conceived as a field of spaces located […]

VIΛ 57 West by Bjarke Ingels Group Between Low and High in New York Text description provided by the architects. VIΛ 57 West, designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group for the Durst Organization, introduces a new typology to New York City: the Courtscraper. The 830 000 sq ft highrise combines the density of the American skyscraper with the communal […]

Space Group’s Clarion Hotel and Congress Trondheim at Brattøra in Trondheim throws down the glove to familiar hotel typologies. Instead, the hotel conjures a different view of the city, weaving a new ornamental materiality into the existing urban fabric. The Clarion Hotel and Congress redefines the classical atrium hotel into a new, dynamic typology. Unlike […]

Para Eco House Designed by Tongji University Team at Solar Dekathlon Europe 2012 in Madrid, Spain The “Para Eco-House” combines both parametric and ecological strategies into the logic of the architectural language used in the house design. Both ‘Passive’ and ‘Active’ energy systems are utilized in this project. Going beyond the functional and environmental requirements, […]

Poly International Plaza, SOM’s latticed shell in Beijing, China is based on traditional Chinese Paper Lanterns. Located midway between the Forbidden City and Beijing Capital Airport, Poly International Plaza occupies a prominent position in a new business district adjacent to the Capital Airport Expressway. A chance to design an “iconic” building is not something one […]

Pierres Vives, Living Stones in English Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects in Montpellier, France Text description provided by the architects. The pierresvives building for the department de l’Herault is the unification of three institutions – the archive, the library and the sports department – within a single envelope. These various parts combine to create a building […]

The Mediterraniean Triangle, a spiral timber structure by MEF University students The Mediterraniean Triangle, a spiral timber structure designed by MEF University students and consulted by SO Istanbul in Antalya, Turkey for International Architecture Biennale 2017. The project was supported by Asmaz Timber.     Mediterraniean Triangle is a structure designed to test the spatial […]