Invited Architectural Competition | Science Centre | Experimentarium | Copenhagen | Adept Architects

In the future the science centre is to constitute an architectural point of orientation and central meeting place as well as being functionally better integrated in the area. Simultaneously, the revision of the existing programming and development demands long-term thinking and focus on environmental and social sustainability......more

Architectural Competition | Kiel Parking Ship | Kiel | Germany | JDSA

One of the main characteristics of Kiel is that it gets its essence from the harbour. From the sails of its ships, to its bridges across the channel, to the massiveness of the cruises. Kiel always remembers that its by the sea. Capital of the largest sailing boat festival in the world, home of one of the best handball teams on the planet, important strategic communication and transport hub in the north of Germany, Kiel is and feels like a dynamic and vibrant city, from its urban feel down to the people that live there........more

Architectural Competition | Third Prize Winner | UN Peace Park | South Korea | ACME

The UN Peace Park masterplan has been initiated to increase the number of tourist in the city of Chungju, the birthplace of Ban Ki-moon, the current UN Secretary General. The new UN memorial building will be the focal point in the UN Peace Park, comprising a 1,500 seating UN assembly hall, 2 conference halls, theatre and exhibition space. The UN Memorial should be a very prominent building within the UN peace park, creating a local landmark but also a building of national and international significance.......more

Sports and Recreational Centre | Green Forum Poreč | Porec | Croatia | 3HLHD Architects

In the center of the town of Poreč, important Croatian tourist destination in Istrian peninsula, there is a large vacant space. This large space of the town parking lot has exceptional potential, because of the nearby old town and the Adriatic Sea, the pedestrian hub, the town access roads and the other city contact zones.......more

The Digital Arts Center | Exe Architecture Studio

This multidisciplinary center accommodates many artistic and social activities. It consists of a few functional and formative units. One of them is placed in part of building oriented towards the Boulevard of Arsenije Carnojevic. It is translucent multifunctional space with stage. The second unit contains flexible workshops and it’s intended for creative activities and research work. The third unit is core of the building. It combines previous two units containing spaces for interactive work, research, education and presentations at the same time.........more

Architectural Competition | History Channel City of the Future | San Francisco | Iwamoto Scott Architecture

Hydro-Net was designed for the History Channel’s competition City of the Future -- a one week design challenge posed to eight architects to design San Francisco in 100 years. This is the grand prize winner for San Francisco.
 This project speculates that cities of the future will need to be evermore interconnected yet also more self-reliant. In order to accommodate a projected doubling of population by 2108 while resisting further outward sprawl, the Bay Area and San Francisco together will require a new infrastructural network that is able to collect and distribute water, power, fuel, goods, and accommodate the transport of residents and tourists alike.....more

Architectural Competition | Four Towers in One | Shenzhen | China | Morphosis

In response to the interconnectedness of the new global city, Four Towers in One re-conceives the conventional urban grid as a dynamic, multi-dimensional organization, or armature, able to support the complex systems that define contemporary urban life. Like the complex yet coherent intricacy of a traditional Chinese puzzle, each site is conceived as a 3-dimensional envelope, interwoven with the other projects, rather than as a 2-dimensional isolated footprint. The well-established strategy of transferring air rights allows the zoning envelope for each building site to evolve beyond a simple vertical extrusion of the site’s footprint, to facilitate a network of interlocking forms reminiscent of the venerated Chinese puzzle........more

TLT Tilting Building | Huaxi | Guiyang | China | BIG

By gently balancing a generic hotel slab on the specific mountain slope of Huaxi, we propose a pragmatic landmark, both efficient and unique. Leaning the hotel towards the new center of Huaxi, minimizes its impact on the view from city to mountain, while improving its own visibility............more

Swiss Federal Institute Of Technology | Zurich | Switzerland | JDSA

Three main gestures or “cuts” in the volume give the building its distinctive shape. The incisions are made so that the entrance, the driveway and the roof terrace can be formed. The cuts thus combine function and design. They create a clear street level entrance as well as a viewing point in the roof towards the beautiful view over the city and lake. The layered facade with external sun protection increases the urban presence of the building. The building presents itself conscious, without seeming to loud or strange. Here the exchange between higher education and residential district is subtly staged and follows an urban scale adapted to it’s surroundings......more