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| OFIS Arhitekti | Bate Borisov FC, Football Stadium | Belarus | Future Architecture |
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| Future Architecture | Absolute Towers by MAD Architects Canada | Photo by MAD Architects |
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| Moshe Safdie Architect, Lotus Flower ArtScience Museum, Singapore |
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| James Law Cybertecture, Cybertecture Egg, Office Building, Mumbai |
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| James Law Cybertecture, Cybertecture Egg, Office Building, Mumbai |
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| James Law Cybertecture, Cybertecture Egg, Office Building, Mumbai |
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| Steven Holl Architects, Tianjin, Ecology and Planning Museums, Chine - Images by Steven Holl |
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Rudy Riccioti, MuCEM, Marceille - Photo by Lisa Ricciotti
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Floating between the water and sky, at the entrance to the Old Port of Marseille, a national museum opens its doors.
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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.
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Now a reality, the MuCEM will be inaugurated in 2013, at the very moment when Marseille will be the European Capital of Culture.
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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.
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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.
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| Ice Rink of Liège by L'Escaut Architecture, Belgium - Photos by |
The new ice rink of Liège is embedded into a crevice of the Médiacité, private real estate development project which came to redevelop a former industrial site on the right bank of the Meuse. It inherits several constraints that it clarifies in an autonomous and unitary form, until incorporating the access to the mall's car park in its climax: the whale’s head.
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As the opacity of the building is essential to insulate it from the heat, it is its entire body, by its nature, its material and its shape that means the relational dimension it wants to maintain with its environment. |
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Would you ever guess that a tiny little Slovenia mountain village is the home to a ground breaking rocket engineer who pioneered theories on long-term human habitation of space? That’s right! Herman Potocnik Noordung, the first theoretician of space, was raised on the hillside of Vitanje. It is Potocnik’s theoretical work that brings the new Cultural Center of European Space Technologies (KSEVT) to the small town today.
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| OFIS Architects, The Cultural Center Of European Space Technologies, Slovenia |
One of the design concepts of the project is to create an internal world reflecting the theme of the Chinese courtyard.
Soho Galaxy, Zaha Hadid Architecture, Urban Complex, Beijing
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L'Oreal Office Building by IAMZ Design Studio, Stockholm, Sweden
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| Residential Project Line K, Pinnacle Peak Place |
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| Pierres Vives, Zaha Hadid Architects, Montpellier, France |
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| Photography is by Joao Morgado. |
Shimmering brass walls surround this arts centre that Portuguese firm Pitagoras Arquitectos have just completed in Guimarães.
Photography is by Joao Morgado.
The new two-storey structure comprises a series of irregularly stacked volumes that extend out from a refurbished row of existing buildings on the edge of an old market square in the city centre.
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| Photography is by Joao Morgado. |
Rows of rectilinear brass pipes give the centre its ridged golden facade, while mirrors clad the underside of cantilevered rooms on the first floor.
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| Photography is by Joao Morgado. |
The $1.3 billion skyscraper is actually the first major property development to come after the global financial crisis put hundreds of projects in the Big Apple on hold and upon its completion in 2013, will be the tallest residential building in the city, at 1,005 feet, eclipsing the Trump World Plaza.
There will be 136 apartments in the tower, above the 210-room Park Hyatt hotel which will sprawl over the first 20 floors. Gary Barnet, the project’s developer, seems confident that his tower will attract both design kudos and deep-pocketed buyers.
Atlantida is a cultural center, designed by the Catalan architect Josep Llinas, situated in Vic, just 60 km north of Barcelona.
The 10.500 m2 of the Atlantida cultural center, feature an 800-seat theatre, a 400-seat auditorium, a music school, 100-seat performance space, a library and a restaurant.
According to the architect in relation to the location, the site is placed between the boundary of the consolidated town and the future expansion areas. The transition from one fabric to the other is articulated by a strip of natural land supported by the Meder River. In the northern edge, the consolidated town is composed by courtyards where the rear façades of row housing look over.
The imposing asymmetrical building which is destined to become a landmark for the city of Vic, opened its doors in April 2010.
The sculptural building cost almost $100 million and consists of two wings connected by an open courtyard.
In the ordinary northern part of the building is a research center and hospital, in the creative south part – the life activity center. 
In this project the architect manipulates space and materials to create stunning structures that captivate the imagination and although the two parts of the building differ from each other, they also act like two parts of the whole. 
The Gehry teams have created a masterpiece of architectural design, blending strong visual impact with superior efficiency in patient care.
According to WAN, Gehry decided to design the building because he, like founder Larry Ruvo, has been affected by degenerative brain diseases. Ruvo’s father had Alzheimer’s and Gehry’s analyst’s wife had Huntington’s disease. 
Therefore, this building is like a tribute to those they lost, and also a beacon of hope for finding treatments or cures for these unfortunate ailments.
