The Scottsdale Museum of the West designed by Jones Studio, combines old west meeting the New West. The architects was guided by the essential qualities of these places, and went searching for innovative materials that would help them realize a New West building that has the same zest and confidence as these Old West examples. After researching they found a material that is the embodiment of the Old West transforming into the New.

A composite board of recycled plastic and saw dust, with an uncanny ability to bend, will softly weather …

The Al Shaqab Equestrian Arena building located at at the heart of Education City, Doha, designed by Leigh & Orange Ltd. The Performance Arena creates the interface of the al Shaqab Equestrian Academy with both the local and the worldwide equestrian communities. The brief for the Performance Arena demanded that international equestrian events be held in all weather conditions with facilities for 8,000 spectators. L&O’s response was to propose separate indoor and outdoor competition arenas which could both be viewed from the same grandstand.

The stone faced walls at the …

The Henley Street Residence situated in Barwon Heads, designed by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects / JCB. A sculptural building form emerged from the clients brief which jokingly requested a planetarium as an inclusion. This led to the exploration of circular forms and resulted in a circular skylight in the first floor living areas as a direct reference however the house was primarily conceived to immerse itself over time as a natural extension of the Ti-tree dominated landscape. The house is wrapped in as skin of vertical cedar battens, providing …

The Felix Nussbaum Museum building projected at 1,890 sqm area in Osnabrueck Germany by Daniel Libeskind. The task of building a Museum to house the artistic remnants of Nussbaum’s life raises issues which are not merely architectural but moral as well. The remaining witnesses to the annihilation of European Jewry are now dying out. The paintings of Nussbaum are more than paintings – they are everliving documents which, placed in a new context of participation and a new witnessing, elevate the narration of history as art into the emblem of …

Sustainable House Design
This sustainable residential building created by Scott M Kemp Architect on the south banks of the Fraser River, Canada. This house design incorporates features of sustainability and the house has achieved a LEED PLATINUM rating from the Canadian Green Building Council. Two side zones are two story elements while the central zone is a large vaulted space. The entrance is part of the ‘grand room’ – kitchen, dining and living room – located on the north side of the building facing the river and the views. Upstairs the …

Tower Architectural
The GT Tower East building was designed by ArchitectenConsort. The form and positioning of the 130-metre-high building are the impressive result of the vision of architects Peter Couwenbergh and Edgar Bosman of ArchitectenConsort. They chose a uniform, glass finish for the facade, which has resulted in an organically pure form. The undulating motion of the facades provides an optically changing primary form when passing the building. Combined with the reflection of the light in the glass, this gives the building a special, iconic appearance. The dynamic appearance of GT …

Modern Office Buiding
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) recently design a modern office building for China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). This building situated at a major crossroads along the Second Ring Road in Beijing’s eastern Dongcheng district, the CNOOC headquarters building acts as an urban counter-point to the massive Ministry of Foreign Affairs Building situated on the opposing corner.

The building’s form evokes the images of offshore oil production. The prow-like shape recalling an oil tanker’s bow, and the tower mass elevated above the ground on piloti suggesting an offshore oil …

The Orange Cube Building project is designed by Jakob + MacFarlane Architects as a simple orthogonal (cube) into which a giant hole is carved, responding to necessities of light, air movement and views. This hole creates a void, piercing the building horizontally from the river side inwards and upwards through the roof terrace.

The cube, next to the existing hall highlights its autonomy. It is designed on a regular framework made of concrete pillars on 5 levels. A light façade, with seemingly random openings is completed by another façade, pierced with …

The Plaza Residences building is flanked by two cultural landmarks that enroot it with the historic past of the area, the Monument to Columbus and the Monument to the Revolution. Designed by Migdal Arquitectos, the shape of the building gives richness and movement to the urban context. In response to the Columbus traffic circle, the building, with its glass interior façade, is erected in the shape of a boomerang, creating a concave interior space that we give to the city by way of Reforma. This concave shape opens up and …

The VC1 is a modern residential building presented by tissellistudioarchitetti, comprising eight individual apartments spread over two floors. The reinforced concrete structure has four storeys above ground and one below which acts as a car park on a plot that was not originally reached by public services such as roads, lighting or sewers. The classical and consolidate residential functions can be found in a ‘box’ which does not refuse the archetype of the parallelepiped volume, but even in the tension of the planning search it ‘lives’ and rotates along an …