Designed by Foster + Partners in collaboration with Berg Arkitektkontor for the City of Stockholm, the new face of Stockholm project covers an area of Stockholm adjacent to the navigation lock between the Baltic and the freshwater Lake Mälaren. Revealed at Slussen Masterplan public exhibition, the project will offer new public spaces, an accessible quayside, pedestrian and cycle routes, and a Water Square as the central feature.
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.
Shanghai Expo 2010 is still 110 days to go, but the Boulevard is already on trial illumination as reported by Xinhua. Using cable membrane structure, the Expo Boulevard will serve as the main entrance to the World Expo 2010 site.
The MVVA’s proposal of the Hudson Park and Boulevard is predicted to be the winner of the competition to design the park. The project will convert a semi-industrial area into a urban space complete with a linear park that will offer a link between the Hudson Rail Yards and 42nd Street.
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.
Dubai, the never ending stories, now has new shocking news for the rest of us. One of the world’s largest fountain will be built in the country by Emaar Properties. The fountain project will spent $218 million and expected to begin operating next year.
The fountains will shoot 22,000 gallons of water in the air at any given moment and feature over 6,600 lights and 50 colour projectors.
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’.
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.
