Modern Architect Design

Zaha Hadid Architects (Zaha Hadid Architects) showed the project office and shopping center "Stone Tower" (The Stone Towers), which was built in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.



Architect inspired patterns and textures of ancient Egyptian stone structures. Lines north and south facades of each tower will be left off and made that stresses the effect of light and shadow on the surface.



Towers will be built in the vicinity of Stone Park (Stone Park) in Cairo. The total area of 525 000 square meters, this will be located business hotel, office and commercial space, restaurants and cafes.





From website: zaha-hadid

Middle of the financial buildings and residential towers of Belgian architect Vincent Kalleba (Vincent Callebaut) intends to build an alternative skyscraper. His 132-storey complex will be built in the south of Roosevelt Island (Roosevelt Island), symbolizing the need for environmental sustainability. The main focus of the conceptual design - an attempt to create a completely self-sufficient organism that is recycling solar, wind, water, and can produce food, in the midst of a megacity.



The system is concentrated around the two main towers. They are symmetrically arranged, grown not only horizontally but also vertically, that is important to close Manhattan.



Metal and glass wings, inspired by the dragon to become home to plants and animals. Thanks to favorable natural conditions, a good solar and wind, at multiple levels, which will be made available soil nutrients, plants will be grown. External vertical gardens are fed by rainwater, which after use will be mixed with household waste, after exposed to organic processing, for use on farms.



In the space between the wings is going to warm the air through which the room will be heated in winter, summer, natural ventilation, as well as evaporation from the plant will cool the air.



The paper used pictures from the website: Vincent.Callebaut

The tender for the construction of a new tower of 962 participant. Dubai, UAE.

This project Blansiak Architects Francois (Francois Blanciak Architects) - a 962-s received for the competition to build a tower, the emblem of the park Zaabel (Zaabeel Park) in Dubai, organized under the premium Tussauds Krupp Eleveytor Evord (TyssenKrupp Elevator Award).




The tower is a mirror image - of the upper and lower part completely repetitive. The round part of the object contrasts with the surrounding business centers. At the bottom of the house the children's library and a series of conference rooms. Traditionally, Islamic architecture, courtyard closes arcade. The upper platform accommodate art gallery, there will be fitted with observation deck with a review of 270 degrees.




All details of the tender: thyssenkrupp-elevator-architecture. Prize categories are divided as follows: First prize - 100 USD 000 and the second - 50 000 dollars, a third - 20 000 dollars. Each contestant will receive a certificate confirming the successful completion of the draft accreditation.




The paper used pictures from the website: Blanciak.

Is it possible to form the architectural culture of the city, building a number of religious architectural projects? With respect to China it is an issue receives, perhaps, a positive response. After an era of blind drawing, the Chinese architecture of today is an exotic mix of imported and home innovations.







Above: The central office of the Central Television of China (China Central Television headquarters, Beijing, the project OMA (OMA).

Charts Central Office is headed by China Central Television (China Central Television headquarters, which is building in Beijing OMA (OMA). Unusual structure of the building not only built under an unusual angle, but also justified, as not only a stylistic gesture. The building will become the second largest business center in the the world after the Pentagon building (Pentagon). The width of the holes in the center - 200 meters.



Above: The Institute of Design (Design Institute), Hong Kong, the author of the draft Koldfay & Associates (Coldefy & Associates).



Above: Sanlitun SOHO (Sanlitun SOHO), Beijing, the author of the draft Kengo Kuma (Kengo Kuma).

In recent years, China has enthusiastically patronized the Western avant-garde. Difficult to recall at least one well-known in the architectural world, the name which is not noted on the Chinese soil. Kengo Kuma (Kengo Kuma), Morfozis (Morphosis), Zaha Hadid (Zaha Hadid), Hertsog and de Merun (Herzog & de Meuron), Steven Holl (Steven Holl), Kuup Himmelblau (Coop Himme (l) blau), and others.



Above: Pharmaceutical kapus Dzhayant Group (Giant Group Pharmaceutical Campus), Shanghai, the author of the draft Morfozis (Morphosis).

China during the turbulent lives of urbanization. Today, about 529 million Chinese (41% of the population) already live in cities, it was necessary to build about 400 new towns for the 1 million residents by 2020 the ninth year. Planners and architects are overwhelmed work. "Every planner in China executes 10 projects a year. He had no time to think, so just have to copy the European style of architecture, "- said Albert Chan (Albert Chan), Chinese architect.



Above: The central office of the publishing houses (Publishing House HQ), Beijing, the author of the draft Studio Zhu Pei (Pei Zhu Studio).

Interestingly, as more will be developed and implemented China's dream of peace?



Above: Center Steve Hall (Steve Holl's Vanke Center), Shenzhen.



Above: A new station in Guangzhou (New Guangzhou Station), Guangzhou, author of the project, Terry Farrell and Partners (Terry Farrell & Partners).



Above: Head Office of China Insurance Group (China Insurance Group HQ), Shenzhen, author of the draft Kuup Himmelblau (Coop Himmelblau).



Above: Cultural Center Miyu (Miyi Cultural Tower), county Miyu (Miyi County), author of the project studio Shift (Studio Shift).




Above: Hotel Hilton (Hilton Hotel), Inner Mongolia (Inner Mongolia), the author of the draft VMIks Architects (VMX Architects).

Bring nature into the house - that's cool. Can birch trees planted at a carpet maybe. Cool idea.

Spanish architecture firm Selgas Cano recently unveiled their new office in Madrid. Located within a forest, the tube-like structure is half-sunken into the ground, giving the illusion of complete isolation. A large window runs the entire length of the structure and forms part of the roof, ensuring workers a panoramic view of the surrounding woods. The office is entered via a partially-hidden stairwell and has retractible shutters at the end of the structure. Selgas Cano’s design is seen here photographed by world-renowned dutch architecture photographer Iwan Baan.

We are surprised the closest architect Zaha Hadid has reached our radars is metonymic Dongdaemun World Design Park near the Teardrop post. This is an example of Zaha's work. This is her firm's recently-announced Dubai Opera House.



The reason I find this most amazing? Most of the popular buildings being built now, like Burj Dubai, Chicago Spire and almost any Gehry project is that it stands out from its surroundings. See a city of bricks and glass? Throw a building that's all curved metal. Why put up a building when you could put up a building that twists? but there's something dreamy about Hadid's projects where she embraces the surroundings. Look at this project again.



This looks like a pile of sand dunes to me. It is being built on a new island off the city of Dubai (new islands are so the rage these days). Inside this project, we find a 2,500-seat opera house, an 800-seat playhouse, arts gallery with 54,000 square feet of space (5,000 square meters), performing arts school and a themed hotel. Of course, everything's state of the art, as is the norm in Dubai these days. The island:



Here's the entrance to the opera house.



The interior will be just as amazing.



I can't get over how elegant and appropriate this project is. It's like an eroded mound sticking out of sand dunes. Jaw on floor. Here are some more photos for your digestion. Construction on the island started in 2006, but we'll keep tabs as this project develops and is completed at an un-announced future date.