The Troika

Watch out for this guys, another project by Lord Norman Foster(completed in 2009). The Troika is the tallest residential development in Malaysia and it is Malaysia's first globally-branded residential development. The residential Troika Development is located at the north-eastern corner of Kuala Lumpur City Centre Park, with comprehensive views of the Park and Petronas Towers. The Foster design responds to the unique location with a scheme of three residential towers - of 38, 44, and 50 storeys respectively.The three towers are interlinked by a skybridge at the 24th level.The towers twist as they rise, maximising apartments' views of the city skyline.
(to find out more..)

image from:
http://www.fosterandpartners.com/content/projects/1307/71690.jpg
passage from from:
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/cx/?id=streettroika-kualalumpur
http://www.fosterandpartners.com/Projects/1307/Default.aspx

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New York returns

New York New York... was once the most iconic architectural city in the world. Studies and researches were done, "Delirious New York", "Manhattanism" by Rem Koolhaas just to name a few. For the past few years, much emphasis has been focused on developing cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, Abu Dhabi and Singapore. Now, New York once again rise to the reign of good architecture, one of the most recent and renowned buildings is Frank Gehry’s offices for IAC/InterActiveCorp. (to find out more...)

image from: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/12/23/arts/20071223_OURO_SLIDESHOW_index.html

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An interview with SANAA

There's an interview with SANAA/Kazuyo Sejima+Ryue Nishizawa at The Japan Times !!
Woaw~ This duo (or both of them individually) is my personal favourite. Love especially their building plans & the unique sense of minimalist in their designs.
Seeing any traces of them always makes me excited!! (Read the interview HERE~)

image from: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080106x1.html

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Burj Dubai TV Commercial

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Architects 'are sexiest'

from:
http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/05/architects-are-sexy/

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CABE Champions Design Competitions in New Exhibition

A CABE exhibition opening at New London Architecture in London on 17 January 2008 will show what design competitions can achieve - and that they are one of the best ways to procure well-designed buildings and places.
Competitions Work will feature the winning projects and runners-up for the three UK sites for Europan 9, Europe's leading housing and urban design competition for young professionals. The sites in Milton Keynes, Sheffield and Stoke-on-Trent are actual developments and the winners will be announced on 16 January 2008. (to find out more..)

image & passage from: http://www.dexigner.com/design_events/cabe-champions-design-competitions-in-new-exhibition.html

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Polish Pavilion for EXPO 2010

On Tuesday 11th December, there was a PAIiIZ conference to announce the winners of the concept for the architectural design of the Polish Pavilion for EXPO 2012 in Shanghai. The conference took place, in the PAIiIZ Press Centre, in Warsaw.
The competition has aroused great interest. 20 projects were presented for the first stage of the competition from which 12 qualified to the second stage. (to find out more..)

passage & image from: http://www.paiz.gov.pl/nowosci/?id_news=1652&lang_id=1

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Yokohama Triennale 2008 : Time Crevasse

The Yokohama Triennale series of international exhibitions of contemporary art, first held in 2001, will make its third exhibition in 2008. Based on the comprehensive exhibition theme set by the artistic director, a diverse range of artworks—including videos, installations, photography, painting, and sculpture—by about 60 to 70 selected artists from many countries will be put on display.
While showcasing newly-released artworks of the cutting-edge contemporary art around the globe, the Triennale will also feature many site-specific works highlighting the distinctive charms of the host city so that it will unfold the large extravaganza of art. (to find out more..)
Held from 13 September - 20 November 2008.

passage from: http://www.yokohamatriennale.jp/2008/index_en.html
image from: http://www.yokohamatriennale.jp/

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Silvertown Aquarium, London

The team behind the £90m Biota! Aquarium at Silvertown Quays has revealed Terry Farrell & Partners’ final designs for the scheme.The aquarium’s designs now boast an ETFE roof, to be made from the translucent material used for the Eden Project in Cornwall and the Beijing Aquatics Centre.The roof will cover the various ‘biomes’ that will house plants, fish, free-flying birds and other animals in the aquarium. The ETFE material allows natural daylight and ventilation. (to find out more...)

text and image from:

http://www.architectureweek.com/cgi-bin/wllk?http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=284&storycode=3100966&c=3&encCode=00000000013fba6d

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New landmark on the horizon

Stanton Williams have created a signature building of powerful visual interest. The design solution was to create a sculpturally strong urban but earthly form, dramatically inspired by shifting tectonic blocks or plates. The solid stone volumes are broken up by geological ‘faults’ between each mass, with glazed panels or lighting in between.
(to find out more..)

image & passage from:
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=1791

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Renzo Piano, Hon. FAIA, Named 2008 AIA Gold Medal Recipient

“Renzo Piano’s distinguished architecture has captured admirers around the world for more than 30 years. His work demonstrates the complete range of architectural concerns. It is sculptural, beautiful, technically accomplished and sustainable. He integrates the diverse disciplines that combine in contemporary building into cohesive, humane environments.”
(to find out more..)

passge from:
http://www.architectureweek.com/cgi-bin/wllk?http://www.aia.org/press2_template.cfm?pagename=release_121307_goldmedal

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Herzog & de Meuron Go To New Heights

The Swiss duo of Herzog & de Meuron is working on a new, 40-story tower to serve as the headquarters for the pharmaceutical company Roche, to be located along the banks of the Rhine River in the architects’ hometown of Basel, Switzerland. At 542-feet-tall, it will be Switzerland’s tallest building.(to find out more..)

image & passage from:
http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/071228herzog.asp

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The Elevator tower

Mitsubishi has opened a "test tower," built for experimental new elevator designs and technologies. It's "the world's tallest elevator testing tower" – and it's a functionalist monolith, standing at 567 feet. (to find out more..)

image & passage from:
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/elevator-tower.html

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Tower of tomorrow

The building of the future will not just sit on a lot – it will breath, sleep, and wake up in the morning. And it will be beautiful.
A skyscraper that self-sustains in the nature of a tree. Designed by William McDonough, a pioneer in sustainable architecture, to share his vision of a building of the future. (to find out more..)

text & image from: http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/fortune/future_tower/index.html

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2nd International Competition for Sustainable design

Knafo Klimor Architects are winners of the 2007 2nd Annual Living Steel Architecture competition for Sustainable Design with their Agro-Housing project.

image and passage from:
http://architechnophilia.blogspot.com/2007/12/knafo-klimor-architects-are-winners-of.html

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Off the grid: Sustainable Habitat 2020

Today, our habitat is very dependent on the international grid of energy &water. Energy crisis, clean water shortage, global warming and environmental pollution are worldwide problems. Understanding cities as dynamic and ever-evolving eco-systems can help us to formulate strategies for a sustainable urban future. The whole project is based on the the brief to develop sustainable housing for urban megalopolis in China in 2020. (to find out more..)

passage & image from: http://www.dezeen.com/2007/10/12/design-probes-2007-by-philips-design-at-dutch-design-week/

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Shenzhen Stock Exchange

For millennia the solid building has stood on a solid base which anchors the structure and connects it emphatically to the ground. In the SSE building the traditional base is lifted up the tower to become a floating platform to broadcast the economic information of the virtual market, and in turn liberate the space on the ground for public space and events. by OMA
(to find out more..)

image & passage from:
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/koolhaas/sse/sse.html

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Villa Shizilin

The building site used to be an orchard for persimmon trees surrounded by mountains. To fully engage the sceneries in the area, the architecture design takes the rangefinder as concept and nine tapered spaces are oriented towards nine different views. The roofs slope to complete these perspectival rooms while to interpret the traditional Chinese architectural forms in a topological way. by Atelier Feichang Jianzhu
(to find out more..)

passage from: http://www.fcjz.com/project/shizilin_e.htm
image from: http://www.jdjt.net/szl/showimage_hall.asp

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Ann Demeulemeester shop

This proposal is an attempt to incorporate as much nature as possible into the building within the constraints of a low-elevation, high-density urban environment of limited space (378㎡). The building defines its relationship between natural/artificial and interior/exterior as an amalgamation, rather than a confrontation.
Diverse interior spaces designated for its three main programs were made to be perceived and utilized as a part of the outdoors in a variety of ways. This building is not meant to be just another ‘object’ to be experienced externally, but rather as a synthetic organism of nature and artifice. by Mass Studies
(to find out more..)

passage from: http://www.massstudies.com/projects/ann_txtEN.html
image from: http://www.massstudies.com/projects/ann_pic.html

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Iskandar Development Region, Malaysia

On January 15, 2008, Mecanoo will present to the Prime Minister of Malaysia the design for the Iskandar Development Region in Johor. (to find out more..) (to read about IDR..)

passage & image from: http://architectureyp.blogspot.com/2007/12/iskandar-development-region-malaysia.html#links

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