Hanhai Luxury Condominium, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Construction has begun on a 353,767 sq m high-end condominium complex in Henan, China designed by Los Angeles-based architecture studio amphibianArc. The project aims to provide ‘garden villas in the sky’ for its residents, with balcony swimming pools and large private terraces blending the boundaries between inside and outside space.

Nine high-rise residential towers will be coupled with three shorter buildings, including a public club house, a supporting facility building and a nine-classroom kindergarten. A single design style has been adopted for all eleven structures, unifying the development into one architectural gesture.

House DZ in Mullem by Graux & Baeyens Architecten

This house in Belgium by Ghent studio Graux & Baeyens Architecten is broken down into cubic volumes that are staggered to let more light into each room. Rooms are staggered back and forth on both floors of the two-storey building, adding space for additional windows on the protruding walls. As well as letting in more light, this prevents any problems with overlooking the neighbours.

Tent House / Nómena Arquitectos

This project is a temporal private beach house. It’s located south of Lima, district of Cañete, within a desert climate near to the Pacific Ocean.

Architects: Nómena Arquitectos
Location: Cañete, Lima

One Yonge

One Yonge is a mixed-use development of six high rise towers on the junction where the longest street in North America, Yonge Street, meets Lake Ontario. Designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects, the cluster of towers will rise above the existing Toronto Star building onsite, elongating it by 10 storeys and recladding the façade in a glittering new sheath.

Residential is the prominent force in this development with four of the six planned towers comprising housing units, the tallest of which will reach 88 storeys over the Toronto skyline. The remaining towers will be a 40-storey office tower and a 70-storey hotel and branded residence, and retail facilities will be implemented to stitch the cluster together.

 

Project: Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition (MoCAPE)
Designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au
Client: Shenzhen Municipal Culture Bureau
Site Area: 21 688 m²
Gross Floor Area: 80 000 m²
Number of Stories: 7
Location: Shenzhen, China
Website: www.coop-himmelblau.at
The prolific Coop Himmelb(l)au practice wins the first prize for the Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition (MoCAPE) design competition. The massive 80,000 square meter building is shaped for a location in the growing Chinese city Shenzhen.

Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC)

Diller Scofidio + Renfro, in collaboration with Gensler, have recently unveiled plans for a new medical and graduate education building on the Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) campus, and the 14-story facility transforms landings into social hubs, uniting people and place from top to bottom while flights get the best views of uptown Manhattan.

Hideaki Takayanagi: Tokyo House: life in spiral

'life in spiral', a dwelling by tokyo-based practice hideaki takayanagi, explores the concept of opening and closing towards the city of tokyo, japan. a narrow site dictated a four-storey dwelling, introducing a 3-dimensional engawa in the form of a ribbon which winds its way through the centralized vertical circulation, creating perimeter rooms along the glazed facade.
providing shade throughout the interior, the angled partial wall defines and separates the rooms while allowing daylight to enter.
vertical shutters along the perimeter glass offer privacy to inhabitants, allowing either a window or wall to exist as desired
to produce a serendipitous relationship with daily activity within the home.



project name: life in spiral
location: tokyo, jpn
plot size: 50.0sq. meter
built area: 29.8sq. meter
total floor area: 109sq. meter