Archive | August, 2010

The East Harlem School by Peter Gluck and Partners Architects

East Harlem, New York is a community beset by poverty and its attendant ills of early high school withdrawal, violent crime, teen pregnancy, and drug abuse….

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Slow Up-rising by Ja StudioInc

Studio Ja has come with an idea of a residential bridge called Solar Park South and has been part of an international competition “Zero Emission”.

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Studio Banana TV: Gas Natural Tower, Benedetta Tagliabue

Studio Banana TV features Gas Natural Tower in Barcelona with explanations by its author, Italian architect Benedetta Tagliabue.

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Rem Koolhaas awarded Golden Lion at Venice Biennale

At the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice today, Rem Koolhaas was awarded the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement by Biennale director Kazuyo Sejima.

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Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires by Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners designs first office headquarters in Argentina..

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Portland Aerial Tram by agps architecture

The Portland Aerial Tramway connects the Oregon Health & Science University Hospital, located at the top of a canyon hillside, with a proposed medical research redevelopment neighborhood on the bank of the Willamette River, just south of downtown Portland.

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New terminal for Stockholm by C. F. Møller Architects

C. F. Møller Architects has just won the competition for a new terminal for Stockholm’s permanent ferry connections to Finland and the Baltics. The new terminal for Stockholm’s permanent ferry connections to Finland and the Baltics will be a landmark for the new urban development Norra Djursgårdsstaden – both architecturally and environmentally.

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BLC Headquarters’ proposal by Atelier Hapsitus

Selected as co-finalist – The project consists of the creation of a landmark for the city of Beirut, extending the existing building without destroying it.

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Water filtration plant by C+S ASSOCIATI

Located in the lagoon of Venice, on the southeastern edge of Sant’Erasmo island, the depurator is part of the general urban and environmental upgrading of the island.

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A Fight on New York’s Skyline

The owners of the Empire State Building and their supporters say their tower’s international status and New York City’s skyline are in mortal danger of an assault from a “monstrosity.”

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Proposals launched for Foster + Partners’ ‘City Park’ at West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong

Foster + Partners’ masterplan for West Kowloon Cultural District, on a reclaimed harbour-front site, has been launched in Hong Kong. ‘City Park’ will capture and recreate the unique character, the DNA, that makes Hong Kong such a great city.

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Hariri Memorial Garden by Vladimir Djurovic Landscape Architecture

Located in front of the Grand Serail (Government Palace), Hariri Memorial Garden is an homage to Lebanon’s ex-Prime Minister, brutally assassinated on February 14, 2005.

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