Description from Samoo:
NHN green Factory is a modern design using spatial composition of grand open floor plates and vertical communication zones to unify and link NHN staff. This is designed to promote socialization, interactivity and creative brainstorming; making people more visible to each other by using the architecture to facilitate the communication amongst the diverse employees. It adheres to the client’s directives for creating a building that communicates the importance of the employees; one that does not seem boastful while sparing little expense in creating a landmark that takes in its surrounding views. Integrated vertical “louvers” that allow for a vast open view when necessary and at the same time provide shading and light control to allow the programmers to carry on with their work without interruptions by glare on their computer screens. These louvers also display on the facades of the building. And they give an ever changing, random canvas feeling to the building’s facades as they are envisioned as being operated individually. Integrated lighting/media displays designed into the facades for NHN to display messages to their surrounding community or to use potentially as ad space.
Project description by 100 Planos:
With the “House of Ofir” of the Prof. Fernando Távora as cloth of deep, this housing for a young couple was drawn that possesss a strong emotional linking to the nature. The set reinterpreta the “L” as I begin deed of division, articulating iconographic elements of the modern architecture, with obvias referencias to the vernacular construction.
Wow, thanks to the internet that make it possible and easy to share anything. I found the reproduction of Eiffel’s original designs that originally published in the book “The 300 Meter Tower”, Lemercier publications, Paris 1900. I’ve never visited the tower but I have a plan to go there in near future. It’s just make all the thing easier to understand now.
drdharchitects has won the international competition for a new 7,350m² concert hall and 5,500m² library in Bodo, Norway. The Bodo Kulturhus and Library will consist of two public buildings; a new city library (5,500m²) and a three-auditorium concert hall (7,350m²), creating a new cultural centre for the Norwegian coastal city. The results of the competition were announced in Bodo, Norway on 27 February. drdharchitects beat five other practices to win the invited competition, including CF Moller, Medplan, General Architecture, Langdon Reis Zahn and Lundgaard & Tranberg.
Arab Saudi want to redesign the al-Haram mosque complex to host more than triple the current 900,000 capacity. King Abdullah has approached 18 architects including Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster to “establish a new architectural vision” for the complex and the whole city.
The new Museum of Islamic Art at Doha, Qatar was opened on December 1st 2008. Designed by I.M. Pei (Pritzker Prize-winner), the museum was built to house masterpieces spanning three continents from the 7th to the 19th century. The building covers 376,740-square-foot area sited in Doha Bay in the Arabian Gulf.
Hearst Tower is 46-storey extension above an existing six-storey Art Deco building located in New York. Completed in 2006, the tower was designed by Norman+ Forster and achieved LEED certification with gold rating. During a ceremony in the Frankfurt Paulskirche recently, the tower was crowned with the prestigious International Highrise Award.
Designed by Torofu, a Tokyo-based architect, this family house is located in Yokohama, Japan. It has uncommon 3D mass especially on it roof. This one-storey house is constructed with cast concrete.
The house being one-storied, we were able to form the roof with freedom. And taking advantage of the freedom, we aimed to make the exterior and the interior appear as two sides of the same object.
