Phoenix sky train
On 8 April, 2013, HOK joined airport and community representatives in celebrating the opening of Stage 1 of the new PHX Sky Train™, one of the worlds’s most advanced and energy-efficient automated people movers.
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Wooden facade of the future
HSB Stockholm - Sweden’s largest building society - is 100 years old in 2023.
Football in the desert
Zaha Hadid Architects and AECOM have been selected to act as design consultants on the Al Wakrah Stadium for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Stadium in Qatar.
Gender equality
OAA Design Excellence Awards has won MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects were the proud recipients of a Design Excellence award from the 2013 Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) Awards for their Regent Park Aquatic Centre in Toronto.
Five rings of health
Green Health City is an ecologically sustainable development designed by Peter Ruge Architekten to support and promote the condition of physical and emotional human health.
Library in the park
Green Square Library is a proposal by the ASPECT Studios which comes as a unique landscape with park, urban square and green garden all wrapped in one colorful solution. The public realm is a unique landscape offering to this new urban community and is an exemplar of contemporary community public space design and place making.
Nursery for the younsters
Four-block concept by Nemesi & Partners Srl, Proger SpA and BMS Progetti Srl was selected for Padiglione Italia at Expo 2015. According to master planner Jacques Herzog, EXPO 2015 will overturn the concept of monumentality: in place of giant structures, Milan will build a new landscape of monumental lightness and natural beauty.
Gardens in the sky
A vertical park in the city - is WOHA’s stunning new hotel in Singapore. Singapore-based WOHA Architects have long been advocates of the ultimate ‘green city’ - one that would be comprised of more vegetation than if it were left as wilderness - and the PARKROYAL on Pickering in Singapore was designed as a hotelas- garden that would double the green-growing potential of its site.
Tank or eco-villa?
The need for buildings is increasing in Bodrum, Turkey as the city’s population, urbanization and industrialization are all growing rapidly. As a result, opportunities have emerged within the building sector where particular attention to design approaches and materials used during construction has been made to minimize pressure on the local environment. International architectural studio A++ has been called to intervene by the Turkish Government by creating a new study into designing a new format of housing.
The story box
Samoo Architects & Engineers has won the design competition for Seoul Recycle Plaza with the design concept of ‘Story Box’, which aims to promote recycling of goods and the creation of a hub for gathering, processing, and re-marketing of recycled goods.
In the tradition of temple construction
Niall McLaughlin Architects just unveiled the gorgeous Bishop Edward King Chapel, which features a stone facade and sweeping interior archways made from sustainable timber. Located outside of Oxford, England, the elegant chapel is capped with a timber roof and it blends harmoniously with the surrounding architecture and forested landscape.
Museum in light
Sustainability isn’t one of the specific categories recognized by the AIA in its Honor Awards program. It might as well be. Sustainable design is a theme that threads through all of the individual award categories, from interior architecture to regional design. Even the 25-Year Award acknowledges the role of sustainability in design, despite the fact that sustainability was hardly the industry buzz-word that it is today.
New green Arch Moscow
On May 26 completed its work 18th International Exhibition of Architecture and Design ARCH MOSCOW NEXT! 2013.