From the Developer, This wedding chapel is located on the grounds of a resort hotel overlooking the Inland Sea of Japan. While the hotel enjoys picturesque scenery of ocean and islands, the chapel site was surrounded by trees over 10m high and did not afford ocean views. We therefore extended the chapel’s form higher than…
Digital Museum (Romania)
Project Details Project: Digital Museum Other Names: Digital Museum Pecica, Digital Museum Romania Owner / Developer: Location: Pecica, Romania Architect: Claudiu Ionescu Year Completed: 2013 Country: Romania Website: Digital Museum Gallery Digital Museum Plans Digital Museum Location Map
Vulkanen Aarhus Student Housing
Project Details Project: Vulkanen Aarhus Student Housing Other Names: Owner / Developer: Location: Grete Løchtes Gade 7, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark Architect: TERROIR, CUBO Arkitekter Engineer: Moe & Brødsgaard A/S Contractor: C.C. Contractor Year Completed: 2013 Floor count: Units: Country: Denmark Website: Awards 2015 Australian Awards for International Architecture, Award for Residential Architecture Vulkanen Aarhus Student…
Boston District Hall
From the Architect, District Hall, Boston’s public innovation center, is the first building completed at Seaport Square, Boston Global Investors’ 23-acre waterfront development. Located in the heart of Seaport Square, it is also the first freestanding city-sponsored innovation center of its kind in the country, serving as an anchor for the emerging Innovation District. Surrounded…
Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology
From the Architect, Poised at the eastern edge of the University of Pennsylvania’s campus, this is the first major academic building that announces the presence of the campus within West Philadelphia. As the university’s first cross disciplinary building, the new nanotech Research Facility will encourage the collaboration, exchange, and integration of knowledge that characterizes the…
Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building
The Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt (EGWW) Federal Building Project modernized an existing 18-story, 512,474-square-foot office tower located in downtown Portland. Completed in 1974, the building’s MEP systems were worn out and out-dated. The project goals included upgrading building systems, updating work environments and improving accessibility, while also meeting the energy and water conservation requirements of the…
Siamese Gioia
Project Details Project: Siamese Gioia Other Names: Owner / Developer: Siamese Asset Co.,Ltd. Location: 31 Thanon Sukhum Vit, Khlong Tan Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand Architect: Somdoon Architects Year Completed: 2013 Floor count: Units: Country: Thailand Website: Siamese Gioia Gallery Siamese Gioia Location Map Street View
College of Media and Communication, Northwestern University in Qatar
From the Architect Located in the southeast quadrant of Education City and set as a hinge between two campus axes, the Northwestern College of Media and Communications quite literally translates and mediates the surrounding environment and site adjacencies into an interwoven movement of interior and exterior space. Consisting of textured outer stone walls, the building…
Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies
From the Architect The Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies [QFIS], in Doha, undertakes pioneering work in the field of Islamic studies, the Arts, Architecture and Contemporary Islamic Society. The progressive agenda for QFIS led us to explore innovative building proposals based on historical Islamic precedents. The scheme also relates in part to Qatar as a…
Global Harbor, Shanghai
From the Architect Opened in 2013, Global Harbor Shanghai is a 480,000m2 commercial complex located in the central area of Shanghai, China, on an important transportation hub. The scheme comprises a 270,000m2 shopping centre and two 245 metre high office, hotel and apartment towers above a 4-storey podium. There is a three-level basement, two levels for shopping…