All Blog Posts Tagged 'urban' (22)

Architecture and design firm Zaarchitects received 2nd prize for their hotel design in New York called Heart of the District.  Instead of using the hotel to separate…

Asian Cairns is a proposal for Shenzhen, China by architect Vincent Callebaut.  With Shenzhen and Hong Kong growing together to total approximately 20 million…

Daewon Park Observatory is the futuristic proposal by Changki Yun (Kyungam Architects Associates) for Kyeonggido Sungnam, South Korea.  The concept for the design was "cloud 360," a nebulous…

The Hive Apartment is just the first in a series of hip hop inspired buildings by Australia’s ITN Architects.  It’s the result of a collaboration by ITN’s  Zvi Belling and graffiti artist “Prowla,” both of…

Plantagon is a large and impressive dome-shaped urban greenhouse, the namesake of Swedish-American company Plantagon.  Its goal is to dramatically change the way we provide food in…

Have media facades become mainly an element

for urban branding or should they be regarded

as city beautification?

Brands strive worldwide for distinctive visual identities in the urban landscape. At night they rely on luminous messages ranging from conventionally illuminated signs and billboards up to…

The Sea Tree is an elegant piece of sustainable architecture that is deliberately not accessible to humans.  The design by Waterstudio.NL will serve as a habitat for the local native plants…

Proposed by the firm Popularchitecture, the…

Sometimes architecture is just about imagery. This competition entry by Afsarmanesh Architects is a design based on the impact of the urban image. It also plays upon the transient nature of the digital…

Everyone is beginning to swoon over Metropol Parasol by J. Mayer H. Architects, which is scheduled for completion in April.  The giant curvilinear bonded timber…

Not the common image of a mixed-use development, this project by Bakers Architecten has a very sleek and unique feel in both the interiors as well as its urban context. While most mixed-use buildings have a more gentle transition from ground floor up, this architecture seems to be placed directly on the curtain wall, placing an interesting visual balance between the two geometric…

Designer: Maria Cristina Tullio, Daniel Dallari, Sandro Polci…

It 's a tough neighborhood Trastevere for those fitted with the design of public spaces, is rich in history to charismatic but contains few monuments to refer to. The neighborhood has always been the borders of ancient and modern history of Rome and only a hundred years the Romans elected the capital's historical center. Among its buildings from various periods ranging from medieval to early 900, there are few areas of sufficient scale to gain the…