Designed by Weiss/Manfredi, the Wandering Ecologies design proposal for Toronto’s Lower Don Lands, has won the American Architecture Award. The project is aimed to offer a new identity for Toronto as well as renaturalizes the Lower Don River. It also creates a new model for sustainable waterfront expansion on the eastern edge of the city. Client: Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation, City of Toronto.
Schedule for grand opening in February 2010, the CircleBath is mentioned as the first hospital designed by Foster + Partners. Comparable to a luxury hotel, the three-storey building consists of operating theatres, bedrooms, consultation, treatment and recovery spaces, and offers both in-patient and out-patient accommodation.
Designed by OMA, the new campus for Chu Hai College of Higher Education covers 28,000 m2 of education facilities for its 4,000 students. The building features both pure geometric forms with the two slabs connected by a ‘mat’ that contains library, cafeteria, gym, and lecture theatres. Maximized for natural ventilation, the slabs contain flexible space for classrooms, studios, and offices. As mentioned by the campus selection committee, the design has a strong visual identity for the college, flexibility in use and an environment conducive for multidisciplinary education.
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Designed by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU as part of the research “Walking through the History’ of the University of Perugia”, the Energy Roof Perugia serves as canopy along Via Mazzini in the center of Perugia. The roof consists of three layers: 1) The top layer incorporates transparent photovoltaic cells to generate electricity and shade the sun; 2) the middle/structural layer holds five wind turbines to generates additional energy; 3) and the bottom layer integrates laminated glazing and translucent pneumatic cushions.
This is the winning design for the Cantos new National Music Centre at the King Eddy site in Calgary’s East Village. Designed by Allied Works Architecture, the new Music Centre delivers an innovative building that fits with Calgary, Alberta, the West, and is symbolic of something that is truly uniquely Canadian.
The SPF:a’s design proposal is not the winner of a competition to design the new National Music Centre at the King Eddy. The last year competition has selected Allied Works Architecture, but it’s still worth to publish as one of the finalists. As described by SPF:a, The Centre will be part museum, part education and outreach facility, and part performance space, incorporating genres ranging from pop and country to ancient music and contemporary composition.
Designed by Vincent Callebaut Architectures, the Physalia Amphibious Garden is a vessel designed to save water by cleaning european waterways. It will navigate on the main extra-European rivers between Danube and Volga, between Rhine and Guadalquivir, or also between Euphrate and Tiger. With 2000 sqm of surface area, the Physalia also incorporates laboratories, museum, and forum.
With four octagonal tower, the Caernarfon Castle was built in 1283 in Wales, United Kindom and needed 47 years to complete the construction. The castle was deigned by Master James of St George and believed to be inspired by the Theodosian Walls of Constantinople (now Istanbul). The four tower connected each other using a linear wall. The castle has been renovated in 1890.
