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ARCHIBORESCENCE

A Riparian District Renovated in Solid Wood 'Archiborescence' is a neologism, a combination of the words Architecture and Arborescence. It expresses Vincent Callebaut Architectures’ architectural leitmotif: 'Transforming the city into an....

BIG reveals masterplan for BiodiverCity, three artificial water lily islands off the shore of Penang Island, Malaysia

BIG reveals masterplan for BiodiverCity, three artificial water lily islands off the shore of Penang Island, Malaysia BIG, the studio founded by Bjarke Ingels, with the Hijjas studios, as a local....

2,000 Custom-Fit Motorized Shades to Enhance the Architectural Design of the Deloitte Summit Tower

Altex, a family-owned company from Terrebonne, Canada's leader in window covering and a valued Québec partner for architects and designers, unveils the fruits of an exceptional collaboration with Westport Manufacturing....

BLT DESIGN AWARDS

I am very proud and honoured to be invited as a jury member in prestigious BLT Design Award dedicated to Architecture Design and Construction around the world. https://lnkd.in/g5GnicZ BLT Built Design Awards....

Zaha Hadid Architects to build Tower C at Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base

Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base will be an important business and financial centre in Shenzhen serving the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau; integrating clusters of corporate....

World’s Tallest Passive House Skyscraper to be built in Vancouver

Canadian company Henson Developments is planning a 586-ft-tall, 60-storey, mixed-use residential tower in downtown Vancouver’s West End. It will become the tallest Passive House green building in the world. Tom Wright of UK-based WKK....

RESCUBIKA CREATIONS: Mandragore – the world’s tallest carbon-sink tower

Futuristic carbon negative residential tower proposed for New York City's Roosevelt Island Mandragore is a proposal to add substance to carbon neutral architecture. Like its namesake the mystical mandrake plant....

Urban Forest

Going beyond the headline of a ‘green building’ “Urban Forest is probably the greenest we can design with the current “greening” tools and regulations available to us.”Koichi Takada Featuring one of the....

Heatherwick Studio unveils EDEN skyscraper, a 20-storey residential vertical garden in Singapore

Heatherwick Studio was commissioned to design an apartment building in the historic Newton district of Singapore. Inspired by the vision of a ‘city in a garden’ imagined by Lee Kuan....

ZHA announces the design of 2 Murray Road Hong Kong, China

Located in the heart of Hong Kong’s central business district, the 36-storey Murray Road project for Henderson Land replaces a multi-storey car park to create an urban oasis adjacent to....

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