Architecture and Design

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Amagerforbraending: the Plant and the Ski Slope

(Issue of a magazine 1/2012, page 36)

Danish architectural company BIG has won the tender for the modernization of the plant for processing waste Amagerforbraending, located on the border between the residential area of Copenhagen and the industrial zone. One end of the building is lifted to integrate the smokestack into the overall architecture of the plant. The geometry of the roofscape supports three slopes of different gradients. There will be a total of 1,500m of ski runs, including a terrain park. Investment in the project, which is scheduled for completion by 2016, will amount to 460 million euros.

“Noah’s Ark” – The Ocean City

(Issue of a magazine 1/2012, page 42)

eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of the 2012 Skyscraper Competition. The annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. One of the most fantastic projects became not a tall building, but environmentally sustainable city on artificial islands named “Noah’s Ark”. Its authors - Serbian architects Aleksandar Joksimovic and Jelena Nikolic - were awarded in the category of “honorable mention”.

Matrix аnd Plug-In For 1000 Passive Houses

(Issue of a magazine 1/2012, page 44)

Called «The Pearl of West Indies», Haiti was during a long time the most visited country of the Greater Antilles representing the occidental third of Hispaniola Island (as it was called by Columbus). Devastated in 2010 by an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, the country has now to be rebuilt from new innovative architectural and townplanning concepts.

Flight оf Imagination

(Issue of a magazine 1/2012, page 48)

The Museum of Flight was conceived a long time, but the idea found its embodiment only now - in the project reminding a huge spaceship. A series of data on the world of flight (biology, medicine, zoology, technology, literature, engineering, science fiction) are contained in a large international data bank exhibited in the Museum and the experimentation centre in a free organized creative space. According the idea of its creators Jean-Marc Schivo and Lucilla Revelli – this huge ark is rich in creative ideas for the future; it is the place where freedom of thought can be expressed to make it understood that “nothing can be detached in the world” (Leibniz).

Ecology, Health аnd Esthetic оf Building

(Issue of a magazine 1/2012, page 58)

At this moment there are many conceptions that carry the ecologic building in their senses. Such concept as “green buildings”, low-energetic, passive- and zero-intake buildings are often call to one another.

Green World in the Heart of Singapore

(Issue of a magazine 1/2012, page 62)

TA renowned residence iliv@Grange in Singapore is a product of design studio Mercurio Design Lab (MDL), known for its unique high end projects. This is the only housing complex in the city with interiors inspired by the famous designer Philippe Starck. Being situated in a prestigious location on Grange Road, in the mere vicinity to the main shopping belt, Orchard Road, iliv@Grange offers exclusive condominium experience for the most refined taste.