Cremorne Mixed-use Complex | Sydney | Australia | Architects EAT

A landmark mixed use development in Cremorne and a gateway into the Stonnington municipal. This project comprises of 14,000m2 of leasable retails and office spaces; 141 upmarket residential apartments arranged over two 5 & 8 storey buildings; and 2 underground levels of car parking. The planning of the development is highly permeable without compromising the privacy and security of the residential complex. It has ample of general public amenities for the user group both on street level and the roof top. The outcome of this project demonstrates the synergy of work and living..........more

The BubblePop.Up Shop | Union Square Park | New York City | Pinkcloud

The BubblePop.Up Shop is a cubic modular retail store which utilizes bubble wrap as a triple-skin façade. The shop utilizes a two-in-one modular structural skeleton // shelf display system. Bubble wrap encases all modules in a waterproof skin, thereby providing insulation, transparency, and interactive texture. The BubblePop.Up Shop illuminates at night, with possibilities for a unique glowing pixel display to showcase merchandise within. As a completely pre-fabricated design, the shop can be quickly assembled on-site with only 2-3 people......more

Architectural Design Competition | Sohar Bank Headquarters | Muscat | Oman | Estudio Lamela

Competition bases set out areas for exclusive use of the Bank Sohar and rent areas as the remains.
Due to the climatology changes so uneven and extreme, concept design was based on the scheme of the omani fortress as the main reference, leaving the bank offices upside in a privileged zone with more security and under the potential image of the building and destinating the offices of the levels below under the protection of the shadows.
The access to both different type of offices was separated because the security and image. There are only two holes in the massive plinth that answer to this scheme of separated access, in order to protect from the wind the patio inside as an oasis in the heart of the building.
Private parking areas for the bank rest underground meanwhile parking for the visitors stayed under the shadow of the palm trees.......more

International Architectural Competition | Aura SOHO | Beijing | China | Make Architects

Make were shortlisted for a prestigious international competition with this dramatic design for a new 500,000m² office and retail development. Located on a gateway site near Beijing international airport, the building takes the form of a monumental arch which creates a powerful presence on the skyline and celebrates arrival into the city. The development is surrounded by new public spaces which are conceived as a fluid landscape, linked and defined by ribbon-like canopies that flow through the pedestrian routes. Organically-shaped retail pavilions overlook a range of gardens and sunken courtyards and a large civic plaza provides the development, and the wider area, with a focal point............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

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

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 Design Competition | Miramare Tower Centre | Zagreb | Croatia | 3LHD Architects

The competition program is placed on a crossing of two streets, Miramarska and Bednjanska. It is a point of colliding two urban city concepts: north part with classical city blocks of the Zagreb's lower city enclosed by the railway and the south part primarily along the Vukovarska Street, outlined with modernistic dominant character of mostly public and social buildings. Concept of awarded project stems from forming a unified structure that will reconcile the surrounding urban matrix and meet the program requirements. Solution with two interacting volumes, the tower with 20 floors and the lower part of the 5 floors, united the planned goals and achieve high quality relations with the neighbouring buildings........more

Winner of International Invited Competition | Business and Retail Complex | Tallinn Harbor | Estonia | Salto

The business / retail complex was situated on a crucial and highly debated location on Tallinn renewing waterfront, formerly restricted area – so the issues to solve were architectural as well as urban. The huge plot and demanding program were divided into two separate volumes with contrasting appearances. The bigger one forms a diverse urban block of its own whereas the smaller one engages with the existing hotel next to it. In between, an undulating street is formed, the directional axis of which continues logically the spatial developments of Rotermanni district nearby, enabling straight access from there to the waterfront........more

A SES Spar European Shopping Center | Siska | Slovenia | ATP

Highly ambitious in the area of sustainability, the centre will provide work for 700 people and will include around 90 shops with a combined retail area of 32,000 m2 as well as a wide range of leisure options at roof level, a public forecourt for events and “urban balconies” with restaurants and bars.
The amorphous design of the building allows it to nestle comfortably into its urban context. The Shopping Centre is not an introverted building, but searches for contact to the environment: The key axes of the shopping centre are public and free of traffic. The square located in front of the main entrance acts to integrate the shopping centre into the public life of the district. Visitors enter the mall through the jaws of the entrance to the rear of the public square. By carefully managing the positioning of the retail and restaurant elements of the centre, the design ensures that the square will remain busy long after the shops are closed.......more

Almere Poort Supermarket | Almere | the Netherlands | RAU

start: 2008
gross floor area: 8000 m2
location: Almere
function: retail, housingcomplex, park
performance: energy-autonome and CO2 free shopping centre and adaptable housing: self supporting in climate control and energy supply


2008: Initiated by the Dutch Municipality of Almere, a sustainable community complex comprising a supermarket, shops and adaptable housing for senior-citizens is currently being developed in the ‘Columbuskwartier’ (Columbus Quarter) neighbourhood. Columbus Quarter is part of the city’s evolving ‘Almere Poort’ district.

Almere was established in 1975 and is the largest city in the Dutch Province of Flevoland, a province entirely reclaimed from the sea during the 1950s and 1960s. This young city is Europe’s fastest growing urban area and currently has 185.000 inhabitants.....more

BMW Event & Delivery Center | Asymptote Architecture

LOCATION: Munich, Germany
SIZE: 15,000 sq.m

DATE: 2001
The proposed BMW Event and Delivery Center in Munich, Germany architecturally embodies the sophistication and advanced technology associated with BMW. The building itself is seen as an extension of the corporate identity and progressive design of the products inside. The interior is a fluid space that creates a dynamic, theatrical event out of the design, production and purchasing of BMW products.....more

MILANOFIORI 2000 | Milan | ARCHEA Associati

LOCATION: Milano Italia
PROJECT: residential - commercial
CLIENT: Milanofiori 2000 S.r.l.
STRUCTURES: Intertecno
SYSTEMS:Intertecno
PLAN:2007
REALISATION:under construction
COST:€ 29.000.000,00
BUILT AREA: 24.848 sq m

The design of a building in the centre of the Milanofiori 2000 area is based on the indications of the master plan prepared by EEA Architects, in which a selection of Italian firms have been asked to participate. The complexity of the project lies in the particular conditions of the plot which is “embedded” between the high level of the artificial ground – which covers the parking areas below, thus creating the new central urban square – and the lower level of the park. The building also acts as backdrop, barrier between the residential area and the shopping area and takes the form of a tall urban front capable of collecting and containing the visual sphere of the public space and the collective life. The density and overall volume of the project is therefore “necessary” even if it proves to be decidedly problematic due to the proportions and overall dimensions. This difficulty has been interpreted as a key of interpretation of the project, which has been re-modulated and “scaled” through a subdivision into two lower units, one with three floors and another with six, superimposed but somewhat shifted. The building is consequently coherent with the tall office blocks with ten or eleven floors designed by Van Egeraat, while the fragmentation make the building reacquire, architecturally speaking, a dimension that is more proportionate to the park and the buildings in front of it......more

Landsbanki Bank Headquarters | Reykjavik, Iceland | WORKac

WORKac was one of five invited teams to propose a new Headquarters for Landsbanki Bank in Reykjavik, Iceland. Our proposal was conceived of as a historical, urban, architectural and programmatic connector to knit together the old fabric of the city center with the scale of new developments at the city’s edge.


The building is formed from a series of programmatic strips stacked to create strategic voids and shared elevated gardens. On the inside, the strips allow for maximum flexibility and provide ideal northern exposure for the offices while also protecting outdoor spaces from the northern winds. Inspired by the interwoven patterns of Icelandic art, the façade combines structure with fenestration......more