October 2018

Ordos Art & City Museum by MAD Architects in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Familiar yet distinct, the City and Art museum in Ordos appears to have either landed in the desert from another world or to always have existed. From atop a dune-like urban plaza, the building is enriched with a convergence of naturalistic interiors, bathed […]

Oct Design Museum by Studio Pei-Zhu in Shenzhen, China The inspiration for the project comes from the context of the bay and from the desire for a surreal exhibition space. The OCT design museum focuses mainly on fashion shows, product design, and conceptual automotive shows. The goal was to create a space that is surreal to […]

MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, presents its model for the “home of the future” on the occasion of the 2018 China House Vision Exhibition. “Living Garden”, conceived in partnership with Hanergy, breaks down the boundaries between interior and exterior, giving inhabitants the feeling that they are living in nature. Defying notions of the traditional […]

Dalian International Conference Center by Coop Himmelb(l)au in Dalian, China The urban design task of the Dalian International Conference Center is to create an instantly recognizable landmark at the terminal point of the future extension of the main city axis. As its focal point the building will be anchored in the mental landscape of the population and […]

The Bund Finance Centre is a prominent new mixed-use development close to the Shanghai waterfront and has been designed jointly by Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio. Occupying a prominent site on the Bund, the buildings define the ‘end point’ to Shanghai’s most famous street. The masterplan is highly permeable for pedestrians, with the design conceived as a point of connection between the old town and the new financial district.

3d Printed Installation, Cheekwood Playhouse by Gould Turner Group in Cheekwood Botanical Gardens, Nashville, Tennessee, USA in 2016 Gould Turner Group partnered with Branch Technology to create the first large-scale 3D printed open-cell structure in the country for the Cheekwood International Playhouse Design Competition in Nashville, Tennessee. The exhibit named Casa d’Espanya showcased an outdoor playhouse inspired […]

When searching for genuinely sustainable building design and technology – designs that go beyond conventional sustainability to be truly restorative – we often find that nature got there first. Over 3.5 billion years of natural history have evolved innumerable examples of forms, systems, and processes that can be applied to modern green design. Aimed at […]

The Broad Museum by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in  Los Angeles, United States The Broad is a new contemporary art museum founded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles which opened in September of 2015. The museum offers free general admission. The museum is home to the 2,000 works of […]

Nine Bridges Country Club by Shigeru Ban Architects in Yeoju-gun, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea Shigeru Ban Architects, quite well known for their innovative use of traditional building materials, unveiled their new masterpiece- Nine Bridges Country Club for a premier golf course in Yeoju-gun, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea in the year 2009. Built on an area of about 21,000 sq. […]

This book by Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, and Jan Willmann acts as the connection between data and building materials. Where these two phenomena are growing ever closer, with digital information not just informing plans but actually being used to create the material that will construct a building―robots are necessarily playing a large role in architecture. […]