Oktokki Space Center by Mass Studies

” … Completed in May this year, the building houses a space theme park. The centre is on Ganghwa Island, an island in the estuary of the Han River.

“The info about the space center from the architects:
This project provides a way to bring three potentially incompatible elements together to clash and coexist: a mountain (the [...]

La Calera chapel - Bogota, Colombia

” The chapel in La Calera has a basic geometry that tries to alter the territory as little as possible. It uses the natural features of the environment, the wind and the light, to create an essential harmony. The chapel is designed to open to the outside to allow worshipers to gather in mass, this [...]

Michael Jantzen’s M-velope

” he M-velope is one of my latest functional art designs for a transformable structure. It was created to provide a special place in which to meditate. The shape and interior light quality of the M-velope can be changed by folding the surface of the structure into many different combinations. Each plane of the surface [...]

Atelier Workshop’s Port-a-Bach portable cabin in a container

” …Here’s the Port-a-Bach, from Atelier Workshop in New Zealand! It reminds me of BARK’s All-Terrain Cabin, in that it is created from a 20ft. shipping container. The Port-a-Bach portable cabin sleeps two adults and two children, is power, water and sewer independent, has one wall that folds down to create an open living space [...]

New Orleans Waterfront Plan Takes Shape

The redevelopment zone runs for 4.5 miles along the east bank of the Mississippi River from Jackson to Poland Avenues past the Lower Garden district, Warehouse, and Central Business Districts as well as the French Quarter, Marigny, and Bywater neighborhoods.
” By Shawn Kennedy [...]

Eden Bio by Edouard Francois

” …couple of images of Eden Bio by French architect Edouard Francois, a social housing development in Paris set in organic gardens.
The project, which is due for completion early next year, features terraced houses ranged along pedestrain alleys heavily landscaped with trees and plants. The development contains 100 social housing units, with the upper levels [...]

Zaha Hadid’s Innovation Tower in Hong Kong

” The fluid character of the Innovation Tower is generated through an intrinsic composition of its landscape, floor plates and louvers, that dissolves the classic typology of the tower and the podium into an iconic seamless piece. These fluid internal and external courtyards create new public spaces of an intimate scale which complement the large [...]

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