MAD Architects, Absolute Towers, Canada

The Chinese architecture firm MAD has completed the Absolute Towers after six long years of planning and construction.

Future Architecture | Absolute Towers by MAD Architects Canada | Photo by MAD Architects

Located in the city of Mississauga in Ontario, the two towers stand at about 492 and 557 feet, respectively. Apartments are located on each oval-shaped floor and the levels are rotated gradually to give the towers that unique curvy outline.

Moshe Safdie Architect, Lotus Flower ArtScience Museum, Singapore

A masterclass in green architecture, the Lotus Flower ArtScience Museum, in Singapure, features 21 gallery spaces totaling 50,000 square feet (6,000 s.m.) that will deliver exhibits from art and science, media and technology, to design and architecture.

Moshe Safdie Architect, Lotus Flower ArtScience Museum, Singapore 

James Law Cybertecture, Cybertecture Egg, Office Building, Mumbai

Are you familiar with the term “cybertecture”? Well, in case you are not, let me explain the concept to you, as simple as possible. Cybertecture, is the point where architecture, technology and innovative engineering get together, in order to sculpt the urban environment. 

James Law Cybertecture, Cybertecture Egg, Office Building, Mumbai

Pretty cool hah? Well, I sure think so.

Not so sure yet? Just check out the Cybertecture Egg, in Mumbai, India, an astonishing 33,000 square meters office space, stacked in 13 stories with highly intelligent building management systems and 3 levels of basement providing 400 car parking spaces.

James Law Cybertecture, Cybertecture Egg, Office Building, Mumbai

According to James Law Cybertecture, the Architects, (or should I say the Cybertects?), behind this impressive office building structure, the Cybertecture Egg is a Cybertecture building that brings together iconic architecture, environmental design, intelligent control systems, and evolutionary engineering to create the most innovative building for the city of Mumbai and for India in the 21st Century. 

James Law Cybertecture, Cybertecture Egg, Office Building, Mumbai

For more stunning pictures of this project you can visit the James Law Cybertecture site.

Steven Holl Architects,Tianjin, Ecology and Planning Museums, China

It was back in 2009 when we wrote a post about Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City Investment and Development Co., Ltd (SSTEC), developing the first eco-business park of its kind in Tianjin Eco-City, China.

Today we run into this almost poetic project by the renown New York and Beijing based practice Steven Holl Architects.

Steven Holl Architects, Tianjin, Ecology and Planning Museums, Chine - Images by Steven Holl 

Rudy Riccioti, MuCEM, Marceille

Set on an extraordinary site in Marseilles, the Museum of Civilizations in Europe and the Mediterranean, also known as the MuCem, is an emblematic structure, I just fell in love with.

Rudy Riccioti, MuCEM, Marceille - Photo by Lisa Ricciotti

An organic facade, out of this world shadows and panoramic views of the sea, are just a few of the unique qualities of this project.

Rudy Riccioti, MuCEM, Marceille - Photo by Lisa Ricciotti

Architect Rudy Ricciotti, says on his Europaconcorsi, project page:

Floating between the water and sky, at the entrance to the Old Port of Marseille, a national museum opens its doors.

Rudy Riccioti, MuCEM, Marceille - Photo by Lisa Ricciotti

Open to the sea, it draws a horizon where the two shores of the Mediterranean can meet. Never before has a museum been specifically dedicated to the cultures of the Mediterranean, despite their richness from the perspective of history and civilization.

Rudy Riccioti, MuCEM, Marceille - Photo by Lisa Ricciotti

Now a reality, the MuCEM will be inaugurated in 2013, at the very moment when Marseille will be the European Capital of Culture.

Rudy Riccioti, MuCEM, Marceille - Photo by Lisa Ricciotti

More than a museum, a cultural city, drawing on all the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, mobilizing the artistic expressions of both shores of the Mediterranean.

Rudy Riccioti, MuCEM, Marceille - Photo by Lisa Ricciotti

Upon entering the Gallery of the Mediterranean, on the first floor of the J4 building, the public will discover, over 1,600 m², a presentation of the major events in the history of the civilisations of the Mediterranean basin.

The opening of the museum is scheduled for Spring 2013.

For more stunning photos of this project, visit Europaconcorsi.