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Practicing Feng Shui

(Issue of a magazine 4/2013, page 46)

Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam is the city of exotic temples and majestic pagodas, it appears as a true embodiment of the unity and conflict of opposites: ancient structures coexist with the elegant colonial villas, and wide almost European boulevards – with narrow and bustling eastern streets. Hanoi is located in the delta of the Hong River (Red River). Today, it is a real face of modern Vietnam – economic, cultural and commercial center of the country. It is vigorous and noisy, but still amazingly beautiful and certainly bearing no resemblance to effervescence of metropolises in Western countries.

Archipelago of Daniel Libeskind

(Issue of a magazine 4/2013, page 50)

In Seoul, on the banks of the Han River, is actively underway a grandiosescale construction of the new district, the project called The Archipelago 21 or DreamHub 21. This self-contained urban development situated on more than 3 million square meters of Yongsan International Business District (YIBD) will include residential quarters, cultural institutions, educational facilities and transportation nodes, as well as numerous world-famous brand stores, all sited in a large urban park along the Han River.

Blossoming Bud of Nanning

(Issue of a magazine 4/2013, page 54)

Nanning, capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, has the most prosperous economy in the whole of South-West China, there are six development zones and industrial parks, as well as a variety of processed agricultural products, which are then shipped across the province of Guangxi. It is also known as the “Green City” because of its abundance of lush tropical foliage.

Development Concept of Tongzhou

(Issue of a magazine 4/2013, page 58)

Since 2011 UNS tudio has been working closely with Perennial Real Estate Holdings on developing the strategy for the Tongzhou Central Business District. The city with the same name originated in the region back in 195 BC. Although after the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping it was absorbed by the rapidly growing Chinese capital. It became a part of the Tongzhou metropolis and was renamed into Tunsyan, but in 1997 the city returned its former name.

Design 2050

(Issue of a magazine 4/2013, page 66)

By 2050, the human population will have reached 9 billion, 75% of whom will be living in cities. Until then, climate change, resource scarcities, rising energy costs and a preoccupation with preventing and minimizing the effects of the next natural or man-made disaster will undoubtedly shape our vision of the built environment. As major cities reach their boundary limits; extending transit networks and patterns of urban sprawl will no longer provide an effective solution. Instead, demographic and lifestyle changes will serve as major catalysts in the shift towards an increase in dense urban environments. As the city living takes center stage, what will we come to expect from the design and function of urban structures and buildings? Research Center and consulting company of Arup – Foresight + Innovation, studying the development of the built environment and society, offered their vision of the building of the future.

Living Crystal

(Issue of a magazine 4/2013, page 76)

This year amongst the Honorable Mentions awardees of the eVolo Magazine Competition was the Quantum Skyscraper project created by Russian architects Ivan Maltsev and Artem Melnik.

Solar Skyscraper

(Issue of a magazine 4/2013, page 80)

Design projects developed for the eVolo Skyscraper Competition are futuristic and innovative, some of them will never be implemented, but some others - have a chance to be embodied in real life. Perhaps, the common feature of these works can be considered as a runaway flight of the authors’ imagination, which is always precedes emergence of new technological or scientific discoveries. Moscow architect Konstantin Elikhov has also submitted to the Competition his creative vision of the skyscraper of the future.

Wings over the Sea

(Issue of a magazine 4/2013, page 84)

A simple, but arresting image from nature – a bird skimming over the surface of a body of water – was the inspiration for this prototype of a museum to be located on a lake or ocean harbor.

Back to Origins

(Issue of a magazine 4/2013, page 86)

In the age of supercars and nanotechnologies enable to create materials with a variety of unique functions, the minds of architects are increasingly returned to such a rarely used nowadays building material like a wood. And if the construction of privately owned detached houses made of this material – is rather pervasive phenomenon, then projects of wooden high-rise buildings, of course, aroused heightened interest among.

Pas de Deux over Biscayne Bay

(Issue of a magazine 4/2013, page 92)

Terra Group, Miami’s leading real-estate development company is constructing a residential complex Grove at Grand Bay designed by renowned Danish architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG ), which promises to become a new architectural landmark of South Florida.