All-Ukrainian Health Protection Centre for Mothers and Children | Kiev | Ukraine | BDP

A 250 bed children’s hospital in a forest setting. A highly sustainable, naturally ventilated, building which aims to achieve exemplary status in terms of carbon emissions and is sympathetic to the site in a natural forest habitat.
The new building separates the treatment and diagnostic areas from the ward areas and buries the former block beneath an extensive reinforced concrete and landscaped ‘green’ roof so that it merges with the forest floor.

The ward blocks are inspired by the Ukrainian tradition of the ‘dacha in the woods’, re-interpreted within a modernist aesthetic.....more

Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative You-ses | WTG

The Mosaic PATHWAY (Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative You-ses) allows governments, developers, entrepreneurs, hoteliers, private organizations, and charitable aid societies the opportunity to create, design, develop and implement amazing new hospitality, vacation, housing, emergency shelter and support structures that are functional, beautiful, simple and adaptable to numerous situations in almost any geography. The organic, geometric-shaped Prisms of the PATHWAY system are collapsible for ease in transportation, are pre-fitted with built-in fixtures and furnishings, and come with self-contained energy, plumbing and lighting systems and self-leveling foundations.....more

Xi'an International Horticultural Expo 2011| Flowing Gardens | Plasma Studio

The International Horticultural Expo has become the instigator and hub for the redevelopment of a large area between the airport and the centre of the ancient city of Xi’an. The city is known as the home of the Terracotta Army of the Qin Dynasty (210 BC) and is also a major business centre for the vast interior of the Chinese mainland........more

Dance Palace | St. Petersburg | Russia | UNStudio

The 21,000 m2 Dance Palace forms part of the European Embankment city quarter masterplan for a new urban square in the historic centre of St. Petersburg. The building presents an open and inviting theatre with provision for 1300 guests (large auditorium 1000, small auditorium 300). Integration with the existing neighboring buildings is achieved by both the scale of the building - which in elevation follows St. Petersburg’s typical 28m roofline – and the transformative transparency which is introduced by a facade system of triangular cladding panels. The variation between opaque and perforated panels creates a controlled openness, depending on program, views and orientation. In the main auditorium the horseshoe form was chosen for its acoustic advantages and the proximity it affords to the stage.....more

Open International Architecture + Urban Design Competition | Aerial Metro Station | Miami | David Tajchman

fluid miami - aerial metro station is a concept proposal for a new station in downtown miami, designed by architect david tajchman. his design is meant to provide the city's centre with an elevated public transportation system and metromover situated on the north edge of museum park. the hovering futuristic hub can be accessed by car and foot. the streamline biomorphic form of the station is a seamless tunnel which includes circular cut-outs throughout its roof and sides to let natural sunlight into the space. its undulating base alleviates traffic flow by allowing people to pass below the station's structure rather than only around it. (words from designboom) place: miami, united states of america
programme: new station for downtown miami’s elevated public transportation system, metromover, on the north edge of museum park
year: october 2009
area: 500 m2
client: dawntown miami
architect: david tajchman

The LM Project | The Mermaid Tower And The Rock | C. F. Møller Architects

The vision of the competition proposal for the two office building projects, the Mermaid and the Rock, on Langelinie and Marmormolen quays is to provide Copenhagen with a new and modern landmark. At the same time, they are also sustainable constructions which meet the requirements towards 'passive houses'. The names of the buildings draw upon a metaphorical language inspired by Langelinie's present principal landmark, the statue of the Little Mermaid, and the buildings comprise strong,.....more

Bahrain International Circuit Sakhir | Kingdom of Bahrain | Zaha Hadid

The master plan of the new Centre for Excellence and Car Experience at the Bahrain International Circuit combines a variety of disparate programs, including a Centre for Motor Excellence, an Alternative Energy Research Centre, Manufacturing Facilities, and an Educational Complex. Additionally, a ‘car experience’ focused on manufacturer’s showcases, car experiences, and retail, provide a focal point for the complex. Finally, a high-end hotel and racing clubhouse rise above the surrounds, overlooking the track and the new development......more

The ZVE (Centre for Virtual Engineering) of the Fraunhofer Institute of Industrial | Stuttgart | UNStudio

The ZVE (Centre for Virtual Engineering) of the Fraunhofer Institute of Industrial engineering is located on their research campus in Stuttgart Vaihingen. The building houses a research centre for the investigation into the development of products in a short time frame, focusing on scientific investigation related to the outcome created by various multidisciplinary workflows. The design incorporates an open, technically innovative structure, whilst also adhering to the existing branding strategy of the Fraunhofer Institute. In order to blend the laboratory and research functions with the exhibition and sceneographic visitor routing, a diagrammatic approach is employed, resulting in an open, communicative design. Research plateaus alternate around a central atrium, ringed by a stairway which fluently connects the various functions.........more

End of the World Quality Spa and Ressort | Atelier Oslo

End of the World Quality Spa & Ressort is a spa hotel with apartments located in Tjøme. There was a regulatory basis for the project as defined four elongated two-storey building volumes for hotel rooms above the ground, and a spa and hotel facility partially underground.

Intentions
Construction volumes above ground is designed so that there are sea views from all apartments. Most apartments are on two floors, and we wanted to give the apartments both evening sun, morning sun and generous terraces. Under the ground brought light into the hotel cannot score in the landscape. The spa is designed so that the curved walls leading visitors through various spaverdener with different contents. We want this project to develop a principle which we have fewer and rational elements to develop an architecture that appears to both organic and free......more

Wei-Wu-Ying Center for the Arts Kaohsiung | Taiwan | Mecanoo

Kaohsiung is one of the world’s larges sea harbours with five million people living in the region. A high speed train line connects the city with Taiwan’s capital, Taipei. The harbour city of Kaohsiung wants to change into a multifaceted city with a state-of-the-art service industry and a rich cultural life. As a result, a new metro system is to come online in 2009 and in the Wei-Wu-Ying Metropolitan Park, a former military compound of 65 ha., a grand complex for concerts, opera and theatre is being realised. The programme consists of a concert hall with 2000 seats, an opera house with 2250 seats, a theatre hall with 1250 seats and a Recital Hall with 500 seats. An international competition was organised for the design of the park and the performing arts center.....more

Architecture Competition | Stealth | New Maribor Museum | Slovenia | David Tajchman

stealth - new maribor museum
architecture competition results 4th PRIZE - HONOURABLE MENTION
place maribor, slovenia
programme museum for visual arts
area 15000 m2
year february 2010
client ugm
architect david tajchman

The Housing+ | Nørre Sundby | Aalborg | C. F. Møller Architects

The Housing+ concept sets the ambitious target of a zero-energy housing scheme, which also includes the tenant’s primary household energy consumption. The complex will thus be 100% relying on renewables.
The 60 units take the form of a sloped volume, from 12 to 4 storeys, creating a large south-facing roof-plane, ideal for solar energy, and just the right size to supply the housing units. This optimized shape also creates a landmark silhouette, prominently positioned between Aalborg’s bridges.......more

National Art Museum Of China | Beijing | OMA

In the past two decades, our museums have become larger and larger; they have now reached a scale at which they can no longer be understood as (large) buildings, but only as (small) cities. Given the area that it covers, the vast number of artworks it will house, the numbers of visitors it will inevitably attract, the turnover of exhibitions it will have to accommodate, NAMOC can be the first museum in the world based on this new paradigm, the first museum conceived as a small city.....more

Architectural Competition | Brancusi Museum | Paris | SPAN

SPAN wins the Brancusi Museum Competition, Paris.

Within Constantin Brancusis body of work is one specific characteristic that emerges on a regular basis: the application of constrictions as specific leitmotiv. These constrictions can be read in various ways, reaching from the definition of rhythmically repeating volumes, as in the Endless Column, or as description of curvilinear bodies, as in La Negresse Blonde and the notoriously famous Bird in Space series. This curvilinear bodies, voluptuous components and undulating elements, are seamlessly and continuously formed into beautiful waistlines, radiating in erotic tension. The design of the new Atelier Brancusi picks up the characteristics of constrictions and explores the opportunities, in terms of architectural space, provided by this technique of spatial formation. ........more

Zaha Hadid | Vilnius Museum And Cultural Centre Vilnius | Lithuania

The creation of the new centre of contemporary and media art in Vilnius is part of a feasibility study undertaken by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and The State Hermitage Museum. It will be a critical element of the cultural life of the city; complementing the existing programmes Vilnius has recently developed for contemporary art. The design points towards a future architectural language that is part of an innovative research trajectory within Zaha Hadid Architects; embracing the latest digital design technology and fabrication methods to enables a seamless transfer of Zaha Hadid Architects’ characteristic acceleration curves and sculpted surface modulations from drawing board to realization................more

Architectural Design Competition | Sprengel Museum Extension | Hannover | Germany | LAN

The Sprengel Museum extension has enormous potential for change in that the museum must be experienced as a part of the place in which it lives. Set on a plinth, the museum demarcates itself as a sacred space. The building is articulated around a longitudinal street dividing it into isolated spaces. Our proposal seeks to create interaction between the museum site and its immediate surroundings, between a building and a topography, each with their own histories, and provide a contemporary perspective radiating out over the city, the lake, the garden and the museum’s plinth. The project’s verticality enables responses to all the project’s challenges in a single gesture:....more

Mountain Hotel | Geilo | Sea Valley in Geilo | Atelier Oslo

Geilo is the name of a mountain hotel with about 200 apartments, located in the Sea Valley in Geilo. The plot is unregulated, and the premise was to create a hotel in the valley by the ski lifts with an integrated parking for the cottages around.

Intentions
A premise of this study was that the plant would be integrated into the landscape, and not shield the view behind. We wanted to develop a principle which all the rooms in the hotel should have the best view of the beautiful nature around, without seeing anything else. This we achieved by adding rooms, terraced strip in the terrain along the contours. By bukle these bands, we added the desired number of rooms. Another premise was to provide direct skiadkomst to the rooms. Therefore, the terraces sloping, and allows you to ski in and ski-out. All circulation is added around the river that flows naturally through the project. A transparent intermediate in the project form an accessible place, where there is a lobby bar and restaurant. Parking is located inside the ground, behind the rooms with a direct connection.....more

Calabar International Convention Center | Nigeria | Mecanoo

The cultural and geographical context of Calabar (Nigeria) offered a unique opportunity for design exploration. Mecanoo created a design for the Calabar International Convention Center in an invited competition with four other international architecture practices. Mecanoo’s sensitive approach to the project interweaving the contextualsocial, economic and geographical conditions. A key factor taken into account is Calabar’s limited infrastructure: the new convention center had to be flexible, adaptable and easy to maintain. The building has to offer efficient climate control in response to the hot and humid climate of the region.

Continental Tower Block | Stockholm | Sweden | Arkitektfirmaet C. F. Møller

The tower block construction in Stockholm has been planned in connection with the extension of the City Line rail link.
The complex of 100 metres, the equivalent of approximately 30 stories, will include a hotel, offices and possibly housing. The building will be equipped with an entrance to a new station at street level directly opposite the city's old main railway station, Centralen, and will therefore be a landmark for Stockholm''s new metro. C. F. Møller''s design is based on a concept of multi-function, a building where many varying uses can take place simultaneously. The tower draws inspiration from the city of Stockholm, an example of which is Stockholm''s largest church Klara kyrka situated right next to the site. The project reinterprets the city''s beautiful town hall and classic church steeples, which combined make up the city''s historic landmarks and create Stockholm''s historic skyline, but at the same time integrates the unique urban feeling defining the area around Centralstationen......more

Architectural Competition | Fish Market | Bergen | Norway | Atelier Oslo

Fish market in Bergen today consists of a number of temporary and mobile stalls. The municipality wanted to build a fishing hall with attached storage that can replace the temporary stalls, as well as a garage for the mobile stalls.

Intentions
Our proposal combines light, construction and historic traces in a simple and functional building. Support functions fryselagere and toilets form a massive volume of the street at the rear of the lot, a robust bymøbel for example bus stops, benches, bicycle, poster / information fit.

The roof structure collars from this massive volume. Fisk Hall is an open column free space, an uninterrupted continuation of kaiflaten with maximum visual contact with the pier.

One continuous floor where all functions are placed creates a functional operating conditions. More inputs and a column-free room open for many furniture options, and that the fish hall can be divided zones for different opening hours.....more

The Future Metropolis | A Tower of Nests | Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture

Creating habitats for animals that have been driven out of their natural environments as a result of development. Creating vertical density within the city to reduce sprawl and commuting distances.

Mankind faces a challenge comparable in size with the industrial revolution to build a sustainable society. In order to succeed, we need to learn how to coexist with nature. We propose a building that aims to become a symbol; not of power nor wealth, but of a new era of harmony and interplay between nature and mankind.....more

Zorah Tower | Capezed

Spectacular concept for a high-rise tower designed as an enormous glass hyperboloid with a transparent covered atrium at its heart, extending upward the entire height of the building. The number of storeys and the floor surface area can be adjusted to the requirements of the client. The tower can be used for apartments, shops or offices, but also offers many possibilities for multifunctional use. The form, materialization and engineering make the building a stylish and distinctive icon in the skyline of every metropolitan environment. The appearance and structure provide many advantages. The construction principle guarantees an elegant and stable building with column-free floors. Although the twisted supporting and façade construction may look complicated, it is easily implemented due to the many repetitions in entirely straight elements that are serially produced. Because the atrium is covered with a transparent roofing, the upper storeys in particular receive light from both outside and inside. The atrium also allows natural ventilation so that fewer installations are required. On the ground floor, the atrium serves as an enormous entrance hall, while offering a great variety of spatial experience on other floors as well........more