The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts Kansas designed by Moshe Safdie and Associates. The iconic building contains cutting edge technology providing artists a premier space to present their work. The buildings dominant shell forms contain two large auditoriums, the muriel kauffman theatre and helzberg hall. Architectural details provide advanced acoustic elements for high quality performances and ample seating for spectators.

The three balconies envelop the hall in a horseshoe-like enclosure. Each balcony is broken down into a series of steps cascading from the center rear balcony to the individual boxes …

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 Tartu Rebase Street Building, a highly single residential homes building with the economical aspects of `apartment living´ in Tartu, Estonia, designed by Atelier Thomas Pucher.

The concept behind the River Towers is clear and simple: organizing spaces according to their main functions and distributing between two big rings: the service ring and the living area ring. The most inner ring organizes the service functions, were one can find the entrance to the apartments, wardrobes, bathroom, sauna areas and in most cases the kitchen area. All infrastructural elements are …

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 …

A-Cero Architects presents modern sculptural house in outiside Madrid. This house can be aesthetically inscribed in the series of projects made by the studio since its international expansion, in places like the Dominican Republic and Dubai, presenting a greater spatial complexity and use of shapes that underlines the relation between A-cero’s architecture and contemporary sculpture.

This house built with the dominance of stylized curves and bold shapes that relate harmonically to its natural context while keeping a clearly modern character. The spaces are freed of columns and other elements that would …

The Dangle-Byrd House set on a wooded five-acre site in rural Pennsylvania, designed by Koko Architecture + Design. The house utilizes a material consciousness to engage the neighboring handcrafted Amish farm buildings. The house consists of three interlocking volumes. While each volume is very simple in its form, the exchange between them allows for a wide variety of spatial experiences.

The first impression one has is that the house is two “shadow-boxes” connected by a “bird cage”. However, as you enter the house the perceptions change. From the interior, the cage …

The Fabric Façade Studio House, a small house building with unusual facade presented by Rob Veening architects. The house completed with minimally sized and narrow but spacious, open and giving one a sense of freedom and movement. One of the most expensive items in a building budget is the facade which is usually the first item that is reduced in ambition. This always has serious consequence for the architectural image.

The municipality of Almere has C2C in high esteem and even drafted its “Almere Principles”! This course offered a chance …

The ‘Twin Towers’ Bella Sky Hotel recently opened for public on May 16th. This modern hotel designed by 3XN Architects. the prongs of the Bella Sky Hotel rise 76.5m into the sky, branching off from one another in a graceful arch so recognisable that Arne Bang Mikkelsen, Director of the Bella Center concludes: “We have decided not to add any signage on the exterior.”

Whilst the sheer volume of the building sets it apart from its local competitors – with 814 hotel units and 30 conference rooms it is currently 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 Rabat Grand Theatre designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, the design takes its energy from the Bouregreg River. The dynamics of the river is introduced into the site, generating the landscape of the park that engulfs the amphitheatre. This gesture gathers strength from the ground and in one fluent sweep, extends into the sky to generate the envelope that sculpts itself over the two auditoria, arches back to the ground and melts back into the landscape.

This formal gesture hides an underlying economy in acoustic strategy and back-of-house organization. The solidity …