Browsing: architecture

Opening up great possibilities of public space beyond transportation, Japan’s largest marine terminal, Yokohama International Port Terminal, is this week’s Uncoverd project.

The UAE Pavilion, designed by Santiago Calatrava, highlights the UAE’s history and aspirations through its mesmerizing architecture. It is located in the center of the World Expo 2020 exhibition site in Dubai. By an impression from the majestic falcon, the country’s national bird, the building spreads 28 moveable wings in a symphony to represent the UAE’s strength and legacy. The whole pavilion is surrounded by culturally significant trees and provides a calm and tranquil environment for visitors.

Taiyuan Botanical Garden was initiated to fulfill the desire of transforming a former coal-mining area into a landscape park that functions not only as an essential model for landscape design but also provides access and information about natural ecosystems by including a building infrastructure that can be used for research.

Bjarke Ingels, as a trendsetter in architecture, delivers vibrant playful settings as the essential but neglected part of the human experience in built environments. He believes in the idea of information-driven design as the driving force for his design process, based on careful analysis of numerous criteria such as local culture and climate, everchanging patterns of contemporary life, and the ebbs and flows of the global economy.

Redefining the meaning of a library and combining all forms of information in a deconstructivist approach, Seattle Central Library is this week’s Uncoverd project.

The Shell-Art Object is made especially for the ArchMoscow expo by the makers of Invisiline (Red Dot winners invisible slot diffusers)

This mixed-use residential building of Koichi Takada in Burleigh Heads is a sculptural and empathetic addition to its seaside surroundings, drawing influence from indigenous Norfolk pines

The Yuandang Pedestrian Bridge is a 586-meter hybrid bridge that combines the surrounding landscape with the infrastructure.

Metaform Architects’ Luxembourg pavilion at World Expo 2020 Dubai intends to express Luxembourg’s past, present, and future and the values of the country in a true manner.

Paper and sketching have been a constant medium for artists to enunciate their thoughts, visions, ideas, emotions and inspirations. This constant medium has been engrained into different aspects of art, where it gave one a blank canvas to physically manifest these different thoughts and ideas.