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” Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed designs for an extension to the Middle East Centre at St Anthony’s College, Oxford.

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” With so much new, high-profile construction going on in Tokyo, it takes a special building to stand out as truly exceptional.

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” The building of 23,000 m2 will comprise of a Science Centre, aquarium, theatre, offices, laboratories and commercial and retail facilities and is located at the eastern edge of Hafencity, Hamburg’s ambitious harbor redevelopment.

The Science Centre is constructed of ten modular blocks that connect to form a ring shaped building. This concept allows for maximum flexibility for exhibitions. Visitors will start their visit at the so called “base station” just under the top of the building, cross over through the exhibition halls and descend in the modular blocks through the various exhibited scientific subjects, such as “the beginning of life” or “everything flows”. Approx. 8,500 m2 of the building is located underground with a large part of this space being taken up by the aquarium, providing a zoological tour from Hamburg to the Red Sea.

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” 3XN has proposed a masterplan for a cultural center and new residential units in Mandal, Norway - entitled “Buen” [the arch]. The project is described by 3XN as ‘a green blanket that elevates and makes room for the cultural center, and thus integrates it in the surrounding landscape‘.

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” The proposed addition to the Warsaw skyline is a light, transparent structure with a strong sense of identity and character. Rising to a height of 240 meters, the tower’s slender form complements the Palace of Culture and other towers in the vicinity, creating its own distinctive profi le within an emerging cluster of tall buildings.
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” Zaha Hadid has won a competition to design the new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

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” Small miracles of architecture in the outermost provinces: the Centro Ciência Viva in Bragança. Design by Giulia de Appolonia. Text by Laura Bossi. Photos by Fernando Guerra, FG+SG.

On the border between Spain and Portugal, the plane flies over an autumnal sienna-coloured chessboard. Ranks of olive groves and vineyards sit on the parched hills, and clusters of white houses punctuate the countryside. As the mountains rise, the vegetation thins out and a line of windmills appears on a ridge, casting gangly shadows that dance on the earth. Such wind parks are a familiar sight along the road to Bragança, a consequence of Portuguese government policy over the past five years. Whatever the Green hardliners may say, that wind turbines are ugly is surely an arguable point. Norman Foster designed quite an elegant one for the German Enercon: a majestic object elevated to a giant scale. And on the Iberian peninsula Don Quixote may have tilted, but windmills are still everywhere. To aesthetes with a guilty conscience, it only remains to seek consolation in the intrinsic beauty of coal-powered stations, pending conversion to nuclear.

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” US green architect to unveil new speculative 40-storey skyscraper at World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi later this month Green architect and writer, William McDonough, has come good on his promise to Fortune Magazine to design a speculative tower for the future. The skyscraper will have a “100% positive impact on people and places”.

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Shaped like a cross between the Gherkin and a cone shell, the 40-plus story tower by William McDonough + Partners, encompasses trees and other greenery and, so the architect claims, will behave like a tree. “It’s a building that receives its energy from the sun, that grows food, that builds soil, that provides a habitat for hundreds of species, that changes colours with the seasons, that creates micro-climates, that would purify water,” He said. “A building that would do just about everything a tree can do except self-replicate.”

The building encloses a series of “atrium gardens” on the western side with plants intended to clean the air inside the building. The northern side is covered with clear glass in front of mosses which should absorb particulates in the air. The building recycles waste water for use in the building’s gardens which, when cleansed by the plants, will be fed back into the grey water system once more.

The south side of the building is made up of 34,000 sq m of solar panels, meeting 40% of the building’s energy needs. A combined natural gas-fuelled heat-and-power plant, operating at 90% efficiency supplies the missing 60%.To cut down further on energy, workstations are fitted with presence sensors shutting down when people aren’t there and adjusting heat, light and sound when they are. “We don’t heat or cool ghosts,” says McDonough, mysteriously.He and Cradle to Cradle co-author, Michael Braungart, will talk about the tower among other ideas at the World Future Energy Summit which takes place in Abu Dhabi on the 21-23 of January. Lord Foster is due to give the closing speech at the event. McDonough is credited with creating the first solar powered house in Ireland and received the first and only Presidential Award for Sustainable Development for an individual in 1996.

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“3XN Architects has won the international architectural competition for a new head quarter for Deutsche Bahn in Berlin. 3XN competed against international star architects like Norman Foster, Dominique Perrault and Auer + Weber. The location of “Cube”, as the project is named, is one of the most prominent and prestigious sites in Europe: the very centre of Berlin, on the Washingtonplatz surrounded by the united Germany’s new government buildings, the Parliament, the famous Tiergarten and Lehrter Bahnhof, the largest central station in Europe.

“It is a great honour and a very interesting but also a demanding challenge to be invited to build on a site which is one of the most central locations – not only in Germany but in the entire new Europe. Standing here, you realise that you are on the construction site of history”, says partner and principal architect at 3XN, Kim Herforth Nielsen. The 3XN winning proposal unites the significant geometric shape with a sculptural expression on the facades. The interior of the house focuses on openness and flexibility with a tall central atrium and four plateaus that open up the building toward the surrounding city. Great importance has been attached to knowledge sharing, an invigoration working environment with many interesting zones and areas, as well as possibilities for choosing between formal and informal encounters. The winning proposal is a new opportunity for 3XN to return to the city where we had our first international break through with the Danish Embassy in Berlin almost ten years ago.”

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