Architectural Competition | Museum for Contemporary Art | Wrocław | Poland | Holzer Kobler Architekturen

One main motif of the building design is the movement of humans within space. As visitors walk along a film is created in their heads which features a chronological projection of the rooms and art works. The circuit around the museum has been designed as a pathway that winds upwards like a figure-8, ending on the building’s roof..............more

Architectural Competition | Castro Alves Theatre | Salvador da Bahia | Brazil | Apiacas Arquitectos

The advantage of the project seeks not only to preserve the architectural heritage, but also preserve the Intangible Heritage created around the ACT, that the site is already consolidated as an area of ​​great cultural importance for the city of Salvador. The Readjustment of the existing building is intended to arrange the spaces through a new distribution to optimize the constructed area, organizing the programs and the circulations, to ensure hierarchy and dimensions consistent with the public nature or technical programs. So the project enhances the clearance under the audience, expanding its space and creating a spatial continuity into the valley, giving meaning to their geometry of the pit building..........more

Mixed Use Deevelopment | Open Fort 400 | Grasweg | Amsterdam | Remi Studio

The planning solution of the structure and site is based on the principle of openness and flexibility. This will allow the possibility of holding cultural, exhibitive and enlightening public or private shows of different levels - from small exhibitions and conferences to festivals and laser shows. As for recreational facilities, visitors can enjoy spending time in the cafes and small restaurants, which are located on different levels of the building, open-air cafes being provided for as well. Spacious underground parking is available. .......more

Airport Design | Terminal 2 | Mexico City Airport | Row Studio

The proposal for the terminal comes from the most efficient layout for the land positions and the boarding gates. To achieve important savings on the construction costs the building adapted almost completely to the existing platform, thus avoiding its expansion which represents an immense cost for airports.........more

Architectural Competition | Rio Olympics Port | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | JDSA

In a town such as Santorini the natural cliff sides make housing typologies which terraces downwards. Shops, cafes, rest spots all integrate to make an amazing typology of the city. What we wish to do in Porto Olympico is to find a hybrid development that combines these 2 extremes. We designed a method of urbanism that allows for variety while holding a strong identity.......more

Architectural Competition | EbiSquare | Mall-Creation | Ebikon (Luzern) | Switzerland | Holzer Kobler Architekturen

The focus of the competition for the public part of the mall, the so-called Mall Creation, was the task of developing good content and design concepts for a high quality shopping and meeting location. The complex was also to possess an international flair and character with which people could identify. As the antithesis to the America shopping mall of the 1950s, which used the longing for the medieval European city as a prototype for new “public” spaces, our mall makes reference to the fading landscape. For this setting, instead of narrow streets we chose expansive, open landscape-like spaces, reduced to the three archetypes of rural Switzerland: lake, mountain and field..........more

Architectural Design Competition | Hotel Paineiras | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Apiacas Arquitectos

A rectangular prism embedded in the ground according to a new foundation, against pre-existing topography, allowing the very slope of the Painswick Road allows access to each floor of the garage in order to minimize the use of ramps for cars. This structure - sometimes buried, sometimes down - allows the creation of a space quota 751.20 for the transfer of passengers, creating the need to control access to the Corcovado Road. Positioned on elevation 760.20, the coverage takes the level of the ground floor of the hotel as a reference, creating an open but protected, able to accommodate the trade, public toilets, access to the box office and train station........more

Recreational Open Air Complex | Moscow | Remi Studio

Large urbanized territories like Moscow are becoming less convenient for living. Intensification of business activities makes cities convenient for work, but inconvenient or less convenient for leisure and rest. The problem may be solved by development of considerable territories, which would combine parks and recreation functions. Open air is a natural park, a place for sports, leisure and rest in a megacity, an excellent platform for sightseeing, music festivals and open-air exhibitions.........more

Shopping Centre Facade Design | Jimenez Cantu Avenue | Mexico City | ROW Studio

ROW was asked to develop a proposal for de redesign of the facade of a shopping center already under construction located on Jimenez Cantu Avenue in Zona Esmeralda on the northwest of Mexico City. The clients required a proposal that would be eye-catching and that at the same time would blend with the surrounding forests that are characteristic of the area. Due to the high costs involved in redesigning the façade in a project that was already under construction there where important budget constraints that needed to be taken into account as part of the design.........more

Architectural Competition | Sundsvall Arts Centre | Sweden | Jorge Hernandez De La Garza

The exterior semi reflective glass panels will give all kinds of reflections of the city life with different light and color during day and night, simulating two horizontal lighthouses for the navigators. The theaters and the rest of the program are located in different levels inside the steel blended structure which functions as a sustainable environment. Natural light and solar panels located in the roof will give comfort during winter for people inside.......more

Zero Energy Zoological Island | South Korea | JDSA

Our proposal for a Zero Energy Zoological Island in South Korea conflates strategies of infrastructural engineering with those of architectural design to more intelligently coordinate the shape of development with the desires for its use. Confronted with the task of developing the undeveloped, the question became how to limit development to an absolute minimum while maximizing its productivity and efficiency.........more

International Architectural Competition | National Library of the Czech Republic | Holzer Kobler Architekturen

The design of the new National Library reflects the contrast between the park’s natural beauty and the heterogeneous urban scenery, and the building’s arrangement and shape bring the two distinct areas together. A horizontal structural element stretches over the city landscape and is penetrated by a vertical form.........more

Contemporary Music Hall | Evreux | France | Hérault Arnod Architectes

The SMAC - Contemporary Music Hall - is a complex of a new musical genre, it has two rooms to the very different diffusion connected by a public space that runs through the building from side to side: the deck. It is designed with the idea that anyone can make his own party by moving from one place to another instead of being just a consumer show, which requires a unique spatial arrangement......more

Invited Architectural Competition | The Hermitage Guggenheim Museum | Vilnius | Lithuania | Massimiliano Fuksas

With its particularity and formal strength, the monumental complex of 14,000 square meters (that of which 5500 are dedicated to exhibition space) wants to be representative of the important role that the city of Vilnius covers.
The building wants to be a Landmark easily recognizable for its particular form, derived from a crossing of singular volumes that open and close, suggesting movement. .......more

Campus Masterplan | Campus Biometropolis | El Pedregal | Mexico | Foster + Partners

The 71-hectare Campus Biometropolis masterplan lies to the south of Mexico City, close to the southern medical cluster and the National University (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). Central to the aims of the low carbon development is the preservation of Mexico City’s indigenous plants and species and the creation of a vital new nature reserve.......more

Architectural Competition | Olympic VeloPark London 2012 Games | FLACQ

FLACQ was shortlisted to design the Olympic VeloPark for the London 2012 Games.
The design aims to create a world-class cycling venue that is deliverable, cost-efficient and provides a positive contribution to the legacy urban strategy. Strong environmental credentials are achieved through the use of appropriate materials and services strategy.

The scheme locates the Velodrome as the northern gateway building to the Olympic Park, with all of the cycling facilities rearranged within the urban plan to give the building a powerful presence.........more

Architectural Competition | World War II Museum | Gdansk | Design Engine

Visitors descend into the exhibition space from a new public forum in a controlled way and in preparation for the experiences ahead. The main exhibition is a black box, where artificial lighting and sound effects will play a significant part in the visitors’ experience. A single connected rest zone allows access directly from the exhibition rooms, and visitors using this space can also re-orientate themselves by looking up through the glass ceiling to the oversailing roof above.........more

Architectural Design Competition | Charterhouse Chemistry Department | Guildford | England | Belsize Architects

The priorities in approaching the brief of this invited competition to design a new chemistry block for Charterhouse School were to create a proud and striking landmark that would enhance the lustre of the School in its 400th year.The design aims to set the proposal within the surrounding historic buildings, each equally remarkable in their own different periods, whilst making a bold visual impact upon arrival at the school......more

Architectural Competition | Visitor Centre | Giant’s Causeway | Ireland | Assael Architecture

The design submitted here represents a highly sustainable solution. From its inception, the scheme has been conceived as one which will have a low impact on the world heritage site, not only visually, but more importantly environmentally. Visually, the buildings sit low within the landscape. Natural materials, small areas of glazing and green roofs are included to reduce the visual impact of the visitor centre and make the most of the surrounding natural features.........more

Green Car Park | Amin Taha Architects

There was a period when Car Parks were considered a symbol of pride and progress. They are now perhaps a symbol of a congested city and a reminder of our Carbon Footprint.
We celebrate good architecture in train stations, art galleries and Airports but to address everyday parking and even celebrate what is considered an uninspiring genre, it is somehow assumed to be inappropriate.

Car drivers have the freedom to come and go as please and the provision of a convenient Parking area is vital to their journey as well as playing an essential part to the overall master plan of the area.........more

120 Room Hotel | Lelystad | The Netherlands | Allard Architecure

Located within a leisure area just outside the new town of Lelystad, The Netherlands, a contemporary hotel is created using technological principles from the rigging of a sail boat.

In the nearby marina, the slender masts of the boats use stabilising rigging ropes to enable the structural mast to resist large loads from the wind and weight of the sails. With the same principle, anchored in the surroundings, tensile cables are attached near the top of the tower and run parallel with the concrete shaft to its base. This not only increases the loading capability of the tower, but also creates a tensile structure that is offset from the existing concrete core. ...........more

Architectural Desugn Competition | Environment of Contemporary Architecture | Russian Organic City | Schiavello Architects Office

The platform of “Russia-Organic city” symbolizes the cultural and historical origins of Russia in a way that shows the relationship between the future and the past, between the sacred and the profane. Towers have always been a much loved feature of Russian architecture skyscrapers such as Kremlin, Lomonosov University and hotel Ucrainia where built with pointed tops, or inflated vertical turrets which gave an exotic air to the buildings associated with the Russian upper middle classes (the “Litejnij prospekt” or the “Petrogradskaja Storona”). These turrets had different uses they could house private chapels or simply be used as additional rooms in houses of the well-to-do..........more

Architectural Competition | Kunst Museum | Basel | Switzerland | Alenjandro Aravena Architect

In a mu­se­um, there are al­ways two forces pulling in op­po­site di­rec­tions.
On one hand, the pro­gram ide­al­ly re­quires a rather her­met­ic box: ex­hi­bi­tion halls with plen­ty of walls with con­trolled sources of light and safe for valu­able pieces of art.
On the oth­er hand, mu­se­ums tend to be lo­cat­ed in priv­i­leged con­texts, so it is de­sir­able that the dif­fer­ent halls ben­e­fit from those lo­ca­tions by open­ing spaces and es­tab­lish­ing a per­me­able re­la­tion­ship with the sur­round­ings........more

International Architectural Design Competition | Cultural Center and Concert Hall | Torun | Poland | Aedas

Aedas was invited to participate in design competition for Cultural Centre in Torun, Poland.
The investment consists of:
Urban concept which shows connections of the area inside Jordanki with public roads outside the district Multifunctional Concert Hall for 1000 viewers with a technical / service area and underground car park for 200 cars.
Masterplan for the area around Concert Hall including the organised green area.
Rebuilding of the infrastructure which is in conflict with the designed Concert Hall Communication service inside the district with a parking system.......more

Invited Architectural Competition | First Prize | House of Culture and Movement | Adept Architects

The main building, the House of Culture and Movement, or Ku-Be (Kultur- og Bevægelseshus) is a rectangular glass volume containing six stacked ideal programmatic elements. The space in-between can be programmed flexibly as a 'play zone' with various activities and main circulation. The stacked elements hold more specific uses: a theatre, a health zone, food zone, a zen area, a study centre and exhibition hall, fitness and activity centre, a wellness centre and an area for the administration. The theatre is flexible and can be used in different stage and audience settings; in addition its large window allows it to be used as an open air theatre where the public stays in the garden. The building is a truly multifunctional public centre which engages its users............more