Stirling prizewinners, David Chipperfield architects have won yet another international competition, this time, the design of the 120,000sq m masterplan of the arts and technology quarter in Segovia, Spain.
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We came across this via MoCo Loco. It is a compact space saving four-room house by German industrial designer Luigi Colani. It contains a six square metre cylinder that comprises a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. The cylinder rotates and ‘delivers’ the room of choice to you in the main living area by a remote control. Outside of the cylinder, there is a separate space for a toilet and small hallway.
The UAE capital city of Abu Dhabi is set to have another addition to its ever expanding skyline. The Tameer Towers development, designed by U.S architect Hilson Moran of Gensler and Structural Engineers, would be a premium mixed use development consisting of 6 buildings spanning over a land space of 465,000 square metres. It would be located on an exclusive area in Shams, between the Arabian Sea and a 1million square feet Central Park.
There would be 4 residential towers, a commercial tower, a 7-star-luxury-business hotel, stepped villas and townhouses, a private marina and a vibrant canal promenade.
This is the winning entry of the competition for the design of the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in the ancient Lithuanian capital city of Vilnius. A design of the Pritzker prize-winning maestro architect Zaha Hadid, this silvery space-ship building would certainly stand out in the very traditional capital of Vilnius know more for it’s 12th century cathedrals than high tech architectural designs like this one.
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Whilst researching the Curvy Monroe building, we came across this innovatively wacky building – it is the HSB ‘Turning Torso’ in Malmö, Sweden. Spanish architect, Santiago Calatrava based the tower’s design on a white marble sculpture of a ‘twisting’ human being.
It is a 53 storey building that spans about 190 metres (623 feet).
Malaysia has its fair share of stunning buildings that have managed to capture international attention. Kuala Lumpur’s Twin Towers for example are some of the worlds highest buildings. With a strong economy and many residential developments taking shape in Malaysia, one of the latest designs to impress is the approved Project 4 of Putrajaya.
Designed as a waterfront residential development the idea for the unusual shape and form of the buildings was derived from the ocean. Combining inspiration from marine life with a permeable radiating block of bio-climatic architecture, the residential structures also draw from traditional Islamic designs.
