Designed by Moneo-Brock, the NP Gas Station is located in Madrid, Spain. It’s constructed on 7391 sqm of site area and adopting the shape of flying bird for its canopy. As you can seen in the picture, the canopy also look like clouds on the horizon between earth and sky.
Designed by Zaha Hadid, the Symbiotic villa was dedicated for The Next-Gene 20 Project in Taiwan. The project, which was launched at the Venice Architecture Biennale two weeks ago, involves ten Taiwanese architects and ten international architects including Zaha Hadid.
Designed by Herzog and de Meuron, the 56 Leonard apartment complex mentioned as “houses stacked in the sky”. It’s located in Tribeca and its completion expected due in 2010. The complex will house 145 residences in 57-story of highrise building.
Going green is good for everyone, and nowadays a great architecture must be green. Talking about green architecture, the key point is energy resource, that’s why solar-solution system becomes popular. Beside all the benefit of going green, the solar solution is also cost effective.
So it’s very logic if everyone wants to adopt the solar solution system in daily life, but they don’t know how to …
The Superstar Project is an idea to make a Mobile China Town, a town that moveable around the world just like a monster. MAD office, Beijing based architects, plans to show off this project during the next Venice Biennale of Architecture between September 14th and November 23rd 2008.
It’s a proposal for a new kind of China Town: one which can reflect the dynamic, ever-changing nature of contemporary Chinese society. The Superstar is an enormous, free-standing community that hovers above the city. The Superstar is not limited to one time or place: it can move around the world, offering an alternative, Chinese vision of the future to all the world’s citizens.
Wow, I was thinking it’s one of professional projects by Zaha Hadid. But it’s not, The Asemic Scapes is a diploma project by Sarah Schneider, a student of University of Applied Arts in Vienna. As described by her, this project is located in the Austrian Alps and She tried to develop a contemporary relationship to the landscape based on calligraphic ornamentation. Asemic Scapes project is a conceptual design for a rehabilitaion center for trauma and post surgery patients with a capacity of 50 beds.
Designed by ADD+ Arquitectura, the Garden House 0.96 has spent US $627,000 for completion since 2003. It’s located in Igualada, Spain and covering 200 sqm of constructed area. As you can seen in the picture, its roof has a mini golf course blending into the landscape. Regarding structure, this green house utilizes steel tube covered with aluminum panel.
