66 million passengers forecasted to pass through next year, 1 800 miles of cables, 445 lifts, 7 000 car parks. This is a new airport in Beijing, that started with works on August 2004 and is expected to be finished by the end of this year. Ground floor, which lead by functional analises is symetrical, but the roof revolts against order and welcomes tourists, that are in a front of the biggest gate into olympic games Beijing 2008.
The Museum nestles in the grounds of the turn of the century Enzo Ferrari house in Modena, Italy - a submerged, soft blue form appearing to grow out of the surrounding landscape. The house being modest in scale has determined the height of the museum. A vast wall of curved, inclined glass draws you into the space, the curved plane bisected by fins inspired by the radiator of a Maserati. North facing roof lights flood the interior volume with diffused white light. Inside the walls and floor of the museum, rectangular in plan, forms a basin, finished in fine white terrazzo. This strong and embracing space provides the perfect environment in which to display the achievement and finesse of the Maserati collection.
In village of culture, as in Dubai is a place full of finest stalls called, will be enriched by a building of Dubai Museum of Middle East Art designed by Netherlands from UN Studio. Architects proposed, as is typical for Dubai, fully futuristic, floated, dynamic structure.
Pavilion for mediation
Architect Michal Jantzen created design for a good meditation place. The mass itself is very simple – cost cuboid. The construction is from wooden squares and filling from wooden laths. These solids are fixed to mobile sides. This involve changes in pavilion, it could be absolutely opened, or fully closed. This approach then can create a thousand different shapes and that is the main thought. An architect aimed to handle a mood and express it in a space.
Norwegian sensitivity
Architectural team Snøhetta build in Norway a Museum of poet Pettr Dass. Authors decided to intervene to nature with sensitivity, so they made a cut in the natural landscape where they put an object of museum. They create not only a new and interesting views and pathways closer to a sea, but they didn´t change a character of the town.
Train stations by Zaha Hadid
Icon of architecture Zaha Hadid shouldnt be ashamed in Austria too. Before an opening of new winter season 2007, she opeened 4 small train stations, that serve to skiers, above the city of Insbruck. This project shows another sucessful plastic play with mass by architect Hadid.
Push the button and wait 90 seconds
Designer Adams Kalkin proposed an extra portable house Illy Push The Button House made inside a standard shipping container, that by means of hydraulic system in terms of pushing the button unfold to a house that reveals a kitchen, dinning room, living room and bedroom and even a library. The only problem is an absence of the roof.
Fight about space for Columbia University
One of the most famous US university is fighting about united space in NY. Columbia University nowdays is alll around NY and student spend hours by travelling. So Uni presents new plan by Renzo Piano and SOM, which are rebuilding university areal on three lined streets in Manhattan. But is not so easy, lot of statesmans are againts. So fight started and only time will show us, who will be winner.
Urban research by MRGD
MRGD is young architecture office in GB with architects Melike Altinisik, Samer Chaumoun and Daniel Widrig. Not long time ago they revealed their research project of rebuilding of quite boring tower Centre Point in the centre of London. They used nice organic form of some kind of parasite. This parasite don´t suck energy from building, but spirit of town into the buidling.
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