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 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 …

Japanese architecture firm Jun Mitsui & Associates adds swirling new façades to the luxurious DE BEERS Ginza Building in Tokyo. The DE BEERS Ginza Building design is intended to reflect the sophisticated Ginza streetscape and fit appropriately into this dynamic context. In the process of the design, the first image that came to the architect’s mind was a twisting form of light in motion.

This was the aesthetic essence of the DE BEERS Ginza building design. The expression of the curtain wall varies continuously as it ascends and as it reflects …

The Ubon House designed with modern style sited very close to the Moon river in Thailand, has a splendid view towards the loneliness green swamp created by the meandering river to the north side. Although the villa is built with modern architectural language, it takes a lot of tropical and social factors into consideration. When the sliding gates and glass doors on the ground floor are fully opened, the ground floor will be fully ventilated by natural wind South-North. The living space then is extended outward to the terrace and …

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 …

Hotel Architectural Design
The Akmani Hotel Jakarta was designed by TWS & Partner. The project is briefed as a boutique – business hotel located in a main busy road in central of Jakarta, which called Wahid Hasyim Street. Mainly known as a tourism and leisure, commercial stripe, this area contains many of street side coffee shops and small hotels, which cater many local or foreigner tourists. The area surrounding is allocated for the commercial usage which result in a high building floor ratio, because it have a direct access to the …

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 …

Modern Architectural Design

This office building material made of reinforced concrete and covered in glass, designed by Architrend Architecture. The building has a large frame on the first floor, concrete-face view of 50 cm height, placed flush with the external shock defines the volume of the first floor, creating a gap with the glass facades of the ground floor. Wide overhangs to protect the entire perimeter of the building’s windows from the sun, the curtain walls are made of aluminum frames with thermal and solar control double glazing with argon gas, …

Sustainable Architecture Design

The Giant Headquarter Building projected by Studiobase Architects + Reborn Studio in 4,800 sqm area in Taichung , Taiwan. The design tries to transfer the idea of motion and speed into the experience of bicycle movement, also wants this building to stand as a model of the sustainability in Taiwan. Located next to the former Taichung local airport, the building skin also tries to react to the movement of heavy traffic and north wind. This industrial-design-shaped façade not only makes the street corner more dynamic, but also reduces …