Projects
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Featuring the work of renown architects Ashton Raggat McDougall Architects, Sybarite Architecture, Cottee Parker Architects, Lacoste + Stevenson Architects, Maddison Architects, Bates Smart, Chapman Herbert Architects, and Jackson Clements Burrows Architects, among many others.
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Environmentally friendly design is set to reach new dizzying heights of achievement with the development of the Kö-Bogen, a new office and retail complex which will join two city blocks and feature a green roof when completed. Designed by renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, Kö-Bogen will be located in the heart of Düsseldorf, opposite the central park. The building’s ecological covering will help establish a broader and more continuous green space within the city, leaving the impression of an unending green area as it associates with the beautiful parklands of this historical city. Allowing its people the opportunity to enjoy truly scenic surroundings, the eco-friendly roof will also decrease rainwater runoff, resulting in the reduction of both heating and cooling costs. A mixture of glass and limestone will reflect the façades of nearby buildings, connecting both the historical and environmental elements of the surrounding area, with straight lines reflecting the former and curved lines the latter. With funding being recently granted, another Libeskind masterpiece will be on show soon enough.
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The sky is the limit. Kobi Karp Architecture & Interior Design have submitted plans for Miapolis, a 160-storey ‘city within a city’ situated on Watson Island in Miami, which could make Dubai’s Burj Khalifa’s right to brag about being the world’s tallest tower null and void. If approved, the structure will be, at 975 metres, 147 metres taller than the Burj Khalifa. The self-contained ‘city’ would contain restaurants, an observatory, an amusement park, 1.96 million sq ft of retail space, 1 million sq ft of office space, over 1000 apartments and a 792-room hotel. Kobi Korp has a history of designing extravagant and daring large-scale, high-rise condominiums. The idea for the Miami Tower has been around for a while, but has now started to pick up steam with developer Guillermo Socarras reportedly in talks with the Federal Aviation Administration to secure height approval. The construction of Miapolis is expected to create 46,000 construction jobs whilst establishing 35,000 permanent jobs, and inject $2.5 billion annually into the local Miami economy, which would allow the $39 million debt owed to the city to be paid off.
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TERROIR
It was hardly a case of terra incognita when TERROIR came to work on this latest extension of Fish349, midway along North Hobart’s popular commercial strip. In 2006, the firm transformed a grocery store – a 1970s extension in an original Georgian heritage building – into a contemporary seafood café. And so this time around, when invited to turn an adjoining car park into a Function Room, TERROIR were on familiar territory.
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From October 23-25 this year, at the inaugural World Architecture Awards in Barcelona, an international jury of architecture luminaries performed an impressive number crunch. Three days, 63 countries, 722 entries, 96 building types, and only 18 awards to announce: 17 category winners, from which they would then choose the big one, 2008 Building of the Year. The task was immense, the field competitive and the standards high, but in the end, the victors emerged. We take a look at some of the first ever World Architecture Festival award winners.
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Avuncular in his casual suits, pipe fixed in his mouth, Joe Colombo’s jovial form seems strangely at odds with his iconic sci-fi designs. But then he sits down, relaxing into his furnishings, and somehow the opposition is reconciled and he begins to look more clearly like the eccentric inventor of a utopian techno-future. His designs spring to life and suddenly seem comfortable, livable, present, as he presides over them with a calm sense of proprietary. Even the knowledge of his untimely death in 1971, on his 41st birthday, barely dampens the sense of a lively, lived-in future that emanates from these photos.
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I. M. Pei, Studio Pei-Zhu and Atelier Deshaus modernise the Chinese vernacular
Torn across temporal and spatial axes, the challenge for contemporary Chinese architects is to become both genuinely contemporary and genuinely Chinese. The tension between identity and modernity may well be an old cliché, but there is real difficulty in being modern in a world where modernity is identified with Western grandeur or communist squalor, and real conflict in building a “Chinese” architecture without slipping into pastiche or nostalgia.
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Architecture’s most prestigious prize finally honours Jean Nouvel for a career of architectural experimentation.
Jean Nouvel, bald and in black, looks like everyone’s idea of an architect. He acts the part too: formulating ideas in bed, vacationing in the South of France, and dressing only in black (except in summer, when he wears only white). Thankfully, his embodiment of architecture’s great clichés is matched by his contribution to architecture’s contemporary vocabulary. Living up to his image, he is widely recognised as one of the most influential living architects, and routinely included amongst a select group of immensely successful superstar architects.
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Lacoste + Stevenson Architects
Greystanes Park East, New South Wales
The Recall Storage Facility is designed to contain six million A3 cardboard archive boxes, storage of which depends on the barcode to keep track of their location. So when Lacoste + Stevenson Architects began designing the Recall Storage Facility, the symbolic resonance of barcoding – signifying identification and individualisation, which forms a sound basis for any design principle – was too perfect to overlook
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Ashton Raggatt McDougall
Melbourne, VIC
Melbourne Central was never the city’s main train station, nor was it an architectural masterpiece, or even a successful retail venture. A recent facelift, however, has taken on the challenge of rewriting past shortcomings; rejuvinating the complex much like a Hollywood star reinvents a flagging career with a new ‘image’ and a few well-chosen film and media appearances.
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The Eveleigh Rail Workshop was a glamour project of the 1880s. Tonkin Zulaikha Greer's acclaimed rebirthing of the old carriage workshop makes a few modern insertions while retaining sweeping perspectives of its massive industrial volume.
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