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CH2 building (Melbourne, Australia)

The Council House 2, better known as CH2, is the first Australian building honored with Green Building Council of Australia's 6 stars rating. This office facility, inaugurated in 2006, has been developed by the company DesignInc, together with the City of Melbourne… [Plataforma Arquitectura / Inhabitat]...

Gardner 1050 by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (Los Angeles)

Through "Gardner 1050", one of his most recent works, Lorcan O'Herlihy tackled multifamiliar housing issue. As urban planning strategies are changing in L.A., single residential unit starts to become an exclusive accommodation. Considering this context of urban typology, that development takes part in multi-unit buildings boom, but also stands out featuring unusual connections among common […]...

Singapore waits for OMA

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is going to design a 36-story apartment tower in Singapore…[dezeen]...

Grand Canyon Skywalk opening

Native American chiefs and a former atronaut had their first walk across the glass skybridge, designed by MRJ Architects, laying 1,200 meters above the Grand Canyon of Colorado… Official inauguration of the Grand Canyon Skywalk is scheduled for March 28, 2007 [Emol.com / BBC]. Images >>>...

House in Barvikha (Russia): Zaha Hadid

Russia > Images of Zaha Hadid's design for a house in Barvikha, near Moscow, unveiled during the international real estate fair – Cannes MIPIM [dezeen]....

“Inner city waltz” displayed through Spots/07 (Berlin)

SPOTS, an installation designed by realities:united – Tim Edler & Jan Edle, that is to say an office building in Potsdamer Platz (Berlin) turned into a "multimedia" facade, made up of 1,800 fluorescent lights. Whitin this framework, Mader – Stublic – Wiermann's work entitled "Inner city waltz" has been displayed from 01/01/2007 until 02/28/2007… Video […]...