Located in fornt of Dallas Winpear Opera House, the Annette Strauss Artist Square was designed by Foster+Partners. As a public space, this new square dedicated to host popular events, music/dance concerts, and spotlighting the Dallas Symphony and Opera to a wider audience.

Construction is progressing well on the Winspear Opera House, the focal point for the new district. Organisationally, the Winspear reinvents the opera house for a new century, creating a transparent, publicly welcoming series of spaces that wrap around the rich red-stained drum of the 2,200-seat auditorium. The ambition is to create a building that will not only be fully integrated with the cultural life of Dallas, but will become a destination in its own right for the non-opera going public, with a restaurant, café and bookstore that will be open throughout the day. Entered beneath a deeply overhanging canopy, which shades the outdoor spaces from the harsh Texan sun, the transition from the plaza, through the foyer, into the auditorium is designed to heighten the drama of attending a performance – in effect, ‘to take the theatre to the audience’.

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Foster+Partner has touched the historic Dolder Grand at Zurich with modern touch and transform it to become a luxury city resort consist of tennis courts, a golf course, pool area, ice rink, sculpture park, and new extension to the historic hotel which originally designed by Jacques Gros in 1899.

Foster + Partners was the architect and masterplanner for the project and collaborated with local architect Itten and Brechbuehl to ensure its detailed execution. While this team was responsible for the internal planning, it did not complete the interior decoration and furnishings.

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30 architects has joined Brad Pitt’s project called “Make It Right” Housing aims to develop sustainable and affordable housing in New Orleans. One of them is Japanese architect Shigeru Ban whose design displayed above and below.

Make It Right’s goal is to join the history of the Lower 9th Ward with creative new architectural solutions mindful of environmental and personal safety concerns in order to encourage both the evolution of aesthetic distinctiveness and the conscientious awareness of natural surroundings.

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Located in Stutgart, the Mercedes-Benz Museum covers shop, restaurant, offices, and auditorium. It was designed by UNStudio and the construction completed two years ago (May 2006).

The Museum experience begins with visitors traveling up through the atrium to the top floor from where they follow the two main paths that unfold chronologically as they descend through the building.

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Designed by Studio Pacific Architecture, the new Wellington International Airport soon become the latest landmark in New Zealand. Also known as “The Rock”, the building will offer dramatic experience for its visitors. And it also mentioned become environmental friendly.

“Our radical departure from traditional airport design worldwide is entirely deliberate. What is set to become New Zealand’s newest iconic building, The Rock combines functionality and capacity with what will be a memorable visitor experience,” said Steven Fitzgerald, Wellington Airport CEO.

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Located on the east coast of Sweden, the floating Villa Nackros designed by Staffan Strindberg, an archtect based in Sweden. This villa measure 12×12 meter consists of 6 room, a kitchen, 178 sqm fo living area, and 12m sqm of terrace.

Villa Nackros offers a spacious, contemporary living environment that combines all the luxuries of the modern day home with the spatial freedom and unrivalled views that only waterfront living can provide.

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Designed by Taichung Stan Allen Architects (SAA), the Taichung Gateway Park located on the site of the former airport in Taichung, Taiwan. The park expected to become a new urban district on totally 250 hectares area.

The municipality of Taichung, located one hour south of Taipei by high-speed railway, will create a new urban district on the site of the former municipal airport. This vast empty site offers an unprecedented opportunity to imagine a new urban paradigm that incorporates ecology, urbanism and architecture.

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Located in Canajoharie, the Arkell Museum adopts concrete and glass as its main structure and facade. This museum welcomes visitor to discover paintings by American artists including Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Maurice Prendergast, and Georgia O’Keeffe on display in the galleries.

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