With Mondrian South Beach, Morgans Hotel Group has made a pioneering move away from the bustle of Miami Beach’s oceanfront tourist center to the fashionable, growing neighborhood of Biscayne Bay. The Hotel Residence is built on a prime waterfront location and provides breathtaking views of the Atlantic and downtown Miami.
Designer: Marcel Wanders [ Hotel Page ]
Closely located to the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC), the largest investment and construction project in Russia, and Europe as a whole, the Expocenter Project offers the city a new exposition venue, hotel, and residential development. The main function of the horizontal space is to house the exposition and conference halls.
Architect: Zaha Hadid
Bloomframe is an innovative window frame which offers solution for apartments in dense urban areas. The patented Bloomframe is an innovative new building components that acts efficiently as both window and balcony. Bloomframe can be added to new or existing buildings. Its design gives the possibility to use the surface of an apartment to the maximum. In the search of minimizing the surface of future apartments Bloomframe provides a solution. The small freedom in the city appears as an evident and necessary innovation.
Architect: Hofman Dujardin
From ancient times people from countries around the world have used long, thin materials of all kinds to create surfaces and three-dimensional forms through the process of weaving. This special technique enables the weaver to freely shape the form of their creation to fit its function, and depending on how it is done also makes it possible to create patterns. This process also creates a mysteriously calm, free space.
Designer: Momoko Kashima
Seoul Commune 2026 investigates the viability of an alternative and sustainable community structure in the overpopulated metropolises of the near future. The imagined community is integrated within the ever-accelerating developments of the digital environment and ongoing rapid social change. Seoul Commune 2026 presents a concrete architectural and urban proposal that entirely reconfigures, and consequently develops the existing towers in the park form.
Architect: Mass Studies [ Via: Inhabitat ]
Reid Architecture’s Spanish arm, Reid Fenwick Asociados, is behind the design for Valencia FC’s new home. The 75,000-seat stadium should be ready for the 2009-2010 football season, and could even be a future venue for a Champions League final. It stands on one of the main routes into the city, and should prove a useful means of orientation. Its external skin comprises large, perforated aluminium segments, which act as a scale plan of Valencia, depicting each neighbourhood.
Architect: Reid Fenwick
Architect Fat was appointed in 2002 to create a new identity for the school and rationalise spaces inside and outside. The existing unremarkable 1960′s buildings are to be given a strong,colourful and unusual new external identity through the addition of decorative screens, surface treatments and signage. These elements communicate the inner life of a creative educational institution and enhance the outdoor spaces between the various existing buildings.
Architect: Art
Urban Shell Shelter has been developed to work as a shelter for changing weather conditions. During the night or in cold weather environments, the trolley is placed against a corner protecting the user from rain, wind or snow. The roof cover keeps the safe from water or snow while its lateral covering panels keep them protected from the wind, creating a warm and cozy shelter.
Designer: Agustin Otegui
Our present work is concentrated on challenging task, transforming an old factory into a temporary motel called Insomnia. Motel Insomnia investigates the potential of this monumental building and its surroundings as a cultural hotspot. Metaphor and functionalism cross each other in this investigation into the potential of the Oude Timmerfabriek situated in the Vlissingen harbor area.
Designer: Studio Jan Melis [ Via: Reluct ]
The directors of the National Malus (crab-apple) Collection invited Heatherwick Studio to develop the design of a structure called the Sitooterie for their site in Essex. Derived from the Scottish, a ‘sitooterie’ is a small building in which to literally “sit oot”.
Designer: Heatherwick Studio
Hotel Puerta America is a new radical design hotel in Madrid. A different architect/interior designer of international standing has been commissioned to create each floor of the hotel, giving free rein to their creativity in the development of the rooms and floor as a whole. The list includes Foster and Partners, Zaha Hadid, Chipperfield, Jean Nouvel, Arata Isozaki, Ron Arad, John Pawson etc. The hotel has 13 floors with 30 rooms, 1200 sqm per floor.
Architect: Plasma Studio
Reflections at Keppel Bay presents the new face to world-class waterfront living with its stunning architecture by master architect Daniel Libeskind. A symphony of six glass towers and 11 villa apartment blocks will house 1,160 luxury homes along a 750-m shoreline, all of which enjoy unparalleled views of the waterfront, golf course and lush surrounds. The towers are of 24-storey to 41-storey heights while the villa blocks range from six-storeys to eight-storeys.
Architect: Daniel Libeskind [ Reflections ] [ Via: Property Report ]
Concrete technology takes another small and surprising leap, even by exacting Japanese standards, in this delicately perforated pod-for-all-occasions designed by Kazuya Morita. The secret of this remarkable little structure lies in its material and construction. The concrete is fibre-reinforced, a combination of white cement, lightweight aggregate and glass fibre. This mixture was meticulously hand trowelled onto a carved styrofoam mould by skilled plasterers (the traditional Japanese plasterer’s art is known as sakan ).
Architect: Kazuya Morita
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