The Venetian Macau is right now one of the most impressive and jaw dropping buildings on earth. Owned by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation (NYSE: LVS) and belonging to one of the richest men in the world, Sheldon Adelson, the Venetian Macau was modeled after it’s little sister in Las Vegas.
Built on the infamous Cotai strip in Macau, the casino is the currently biggest in the world and a feat to human architecture. It is also the third largest building in the world right now.
Officially opened on 28.August 2008 the Venetian is part of an 8 part development that isn’t matched anywhere else on this planet. All owned by the same company.
Continue reading ‘Venetian Macau - The Largest Casino In The World’
This quirky crystal shaped building is to be the Creative Media Centre of Hong Kong City University. Designed by New York based architects, Studio Daniel Libeskind in collaboration with Hong Kong based Leigh & Orange Architects, this iconic building is set to create an inspiring environment for creativity both externally and internally with its use of an extraordinary range of spaces rich in form, light and material.
Continue reading ‘The Crystalline, Creative Media Centre Hong Kong’
This blobby shaped yet intricately designed building is to be Erdos Museum in Erdos City, Inner Monglia, China. Designed by the maestro design house, MAD design in 2007, Erdos Museum would span a total area of 41,227 sqm.
Continue reading ‘The Amorphous, Erdos Museum’
Beijing Central Business District or the Beijing CBD is Beijing’s core business borough spread over a total area of 4 square kilometres in the eastern urban area of Beijing city.
Planned since 1993 and scheduled to be completed this year (before the Olympics), it is currently residing 3000 businesses constituting, 500 multinationals, 570 foreign representative branch offices, 150 international financial corporations & 200 intermediary service companies.
Beijing CBD comprises of over 10 million square metres of constructed real estate; 50% of which is office space, 25% apartments and the remainder 25% commercial and service oriented.
Continue reading ‘Towers of Beijing’s Central Business District (CBD)’
With the Olympic flame well on it’s way on the journey to Beijing, organizers are gearing up for the big event when the doors open on August 8th. - 24th 2008. With a little over 120 days to go until the gates open to the Olympic stadium, much will have to be done.
Despite all the action that is yet to come we wanted to take a look behind the scenes and see where this all started.
When a city gets awarded with the coveted prestige of hosting the Olympic Games, architects and planners run amok for some time to design the best possible structure to hold masses of people.
Continue reading ‘Olympic Stadium Designs, And The Winner Is…!’
This high tech building is to be the control and data centre of the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
Notice how it bears resemblance to a circuit board or digital bar code? Well, it was intentional and has been named the Digital building, which pretty much reflects its digital design scheme and personifies the promise of the Beijing Municipal Government to present the Beijing Olympics or Digital Olympics as it is often referred as, with the highest technological content on offer by any Olympics in history.
Continue reading ‘Digital Beijing Building’
The first project in our series is the ‘Beijing Great Wheel’
In a bid to boost tourism in China, construction has begun for the soon to-be ‘tallest & largest observation Ferris wheel’ in the world. The Ferris named, ‘Beijing Great Wheel’ is to be located in eastern Beijing’s Chaoyang Park, venue for beach volleyball in the Beijing 2008 Olympics and would stand at a soaring 680 feet (207 metres) dwarfing the London Eye which is about 135 metres (443 feet) and the Singapore flyer which towers at 165 metres (541 feet).
Beijing wheel is expected have 48 air-conditioned capsules with each capsule having the capacity of carrying 40 passengers.
Continue reading ‘Beijing’s Great Observation Wheel’
