Oct 31, 2010

Faith in Place | A Green Mosque for the American Midwest




Green Mosque

Three winners and three honorable mentions have recently been announced for the international ideas competition The Building: Problem or Solution?, sponsored by Faith in Place, a Chicago nonprofit organization. The primary mission of the contest is the development of an array of ideas that will assist congregations in the future when they contemplate significant remodeling or new building programs, hoping to create buildings that are active and full of life at all times of the week, that use their spaces well and serve their communities well. 

Aug 16, 2010

LM Harbor Gateway




The Langelinie and Marmormolen towers form the LM Harbor Gateway, which serves as the new entry point to Copenhagen Harbor. The office towers are connected by a cable-stay bridge suspended 213 feet above the water’s surface.


Aug 15, 2010

North Carolina Museum of Art


Since he became the North Carolina Museum of Art’s director in 1994, Lawrence Wheeler has lobbied for an expansion to the Raleigh, N.C., institution’s 1983 Edward Durell Stone–designed building (completed after his death). This year—after an fundraising campaign to get more than $70 million from state, county, and city funds, as well as from private donors—his vision was finally realized with the opening of a new 127,000-square-foot building by New York–based Thomas Phifer and Partners.

Aug 14, 2010

Burj Khalifa inside pics

Burj Khalifa, formerly known as Burj Dubai, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 828 m.
The design incorporates ideas from traditional Islamic architecture, while the open petals of a desert flower were the inspiration for the tower’s base.
Burj Khalifa will be home to 1,044 luxury apartments49 floors of offices and eventually a160-room Armani-branded hotel. Around 12,000 people are expected to live and work in the tower, which is part of a 500-acre development.
Here are some of the Inside Views of this great architecture.




Scientific and Technological Centre of the Rioja

Office Building in Erandio