Images of RAK Convention and Exhibition Centre, designed by Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf (OMA) for th new Gateway City in Ras Al Khaimah (United Arab Emirates)… The development comprises a facility for displays and conferences, hotels, offices, apartments, shops and restaurants… [dezeen]...
The contractor charged with building Santiago Calatrava's Chicago Spire, announced that works are starting this very month (May 2007), to end in 2010 [ELPAIS.com / elmundo.es]. source > move your mind...
The Oscar Niemeyer Cultural Center in Goiânia is a big building complex (17,000 sqmtrs) dedicated to art, named after the renown architect, who has never designed anything in that city. The scheme is simple: four differently shaped and destined volumes on a rectangular esplanade… [ ARCOweb]...
Foster + Partners unveiled a huge urban development in Abu Dhabi, describing it as the first city with no carbon emissions…"zero carbon, zero waste city"…Inauguration is scheduled for the end of 2009 [dezeen]. source > move your mind...
VilLA NM, designed by UNStudio – Ben van Berkel in Upstate New York >>>...
Beijing > Ma Yansong (MAD Office) proposes to convert the Tianamen Square, designed to resemble Moscow's Red Square, into a green park…[Guardian] / Tiananmen on Google Maps Video interview >>> source > Archinect...
Johnston Marklee & Associates' design for the Hill House, situated in Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles – California), was conceived under conditions generated by difficulties pertaining to construction site…The scheme of the house capitalizes these limitations deriving from the lot and the constraints imposed by building law, turning them into the opportunity to mouldonly apparently fickle […]...
New York… Brooklyn > Due to insufficient budget funds, the Visual and Performing Arts Library, designed by Enrique Norten, won't be built anymore. The 135-million USD library, intended to be part of the BAM Cultural District, could only be carried out through private contributions… [Curbed / NYT / Gothamist]...
Information about the 2007 AIA Honor Awards > Architectural Record...
Special > Images from "hEX", exhibition dedicated to Contemporary Argentinean Architecture, going on at the CCEBA (Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires) until June 2, 2007 >>>...
Tokyo > Kisho Kurokawa 's Nakagin Capsule Tower (1972) – according to some critics, a clear example of the Metabolist Movement, that rose during the 60's and the 70's – is going to be demolished (but no date has yet been set), since building residents have shown their concern about the presence of asbestos in […]...
