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Garden Ribbons of Netanya

(Issue of a magazine 2/2013, page 44)

Amsterdam-based ShaGa studio in collaboration with American company Shyovitz Architects has designed the ‘Netanya Municipality Tower’ in the old city center of Netanya, Israel. Netanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, located 30 km (18.64 mi) north of Tel Aviv, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It was founded in 1929 by natives of Eastern Europe as the agricultural settlement, which is engaged in citrus fruit crops. Netanya was named in honor of Nathan Straus, a prominent Jewish American merchant and philanthropist of the early twentieth century, who donated a large sum to its foundation and development. Modern Netanya has nearly 200,000 of residents and is the center of a powerful diamond industry.

The Hotel on the Slope of the Downhill

(Issue of a magazine 2/2013, page 50)

The international competition to design the mixed-use complex with a InterContinental hotel in Yerevan won the Japanese company ARAI Architects headed by prominent master Kiyokazu Arai. The complex is to be built on the slope of Kanaker plateau on the site of one of the most famous buildings of the Soviet period Yerevan - the Youth Palace, which was demolished in 2006 for its inadequate earthquake resistance. In addition to the hotel, the project includes the construction of a business center, a residential complex and underground parking for 2000 cars.

Online Experiment

(Issue of a magazine 2/2013, page 56)

While China’s major cities already breaching the 10 million mark in terms of population (Shanghai is home to more than 16.6 million people, Beijing 12.2 million, and Shenzhen 9 million), leaders are looking to new cities as places to house the growing urban populations. Over half of China’s 1.3 billion people currently live in urban areas – a dramatic rise from approximately 30% of the population in the late 1970s. China’s urban population is expected to grow by an additional 350 million people over the next 12 years, and by 2030, well over 200 Chinese cities will be home to more than 1 million people each. This rate of urbanization brings increasing pressure on national, provincial and city leaders to accommodate massive amounts of people, and new cities are cropping up to absorb the country’s large number of urban migrants.

Olympic Design

(Issue of a magazine 2/2013, page 60)

Architectural bureau LAVA has developed a multifunctional urban plan named SQUARE3 conceived by visionary developer Moritz Gruppe. The project is just nine minutes from Alexanderplatz, the very heart of Berlin, and located near Europe’s largest urban nature reserve and a sports hot spot. The project is located in Alt- Hohenschonhausen, an area once known for its Stasi memorial, a sports complex Sportforum Hohenschonhausen, built in 1970 and East German prefab apartments, and now ripe for revitalization.

The Dreamlike “Moon” on Taihu Lake

(Issue of a magazine 2/2013, page 74)

In the Chinese city of Huzhou, Zhejiang Province has recently opened a new hotel complex Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort with a yacht marina, designed by renowned national studio MAD Architects. The building looks like a magnificent “ring” comprised of luxury crystals and jades located on the south lakefront of China’s famous Taihu Lake and is reminiscent of a gorgeous arch bridge.

From Earth to Mars

(Issue of a magazine 2/2013, page 80)

eVolo Magazine has recently announced the winners of the 2013 Skyscraper Competition. The award was established in 2006 to recognize outstanding ideas for vertical living. Since then, the publication has received more than 5,000 projects that envision the future of building high. These ideas, through the novel use of technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments. In 2013, the Jury, formed by leaders of the architecture and design fields selected 3 winners and 24 honorable mentions. eVolo Magazine received 625 projects from all continents and 83 different countries.

The Mosfilmovskaya Building: Splendent Skyscraper

(Issue of a magazine 1/2013, page 34)

This unique object designed by Sergei Skuratov in 2004, immediately became noticeable architectural event in Moscow. It was the first project that has excited so much interest not only in professional circles, but also initiated high public response. The Mosfilmovskaya Building (“House on Mosfilmovskaya”) is not similar to high-rise buildings that were constructed in the capital earlier, more or less repeating the style of the so-called Stalin’s Empire style with too much pomp and abundance of details. The Mosfilmovskaya Building has extremely laconic exterior design, and this is certainly a modern quality architecture pattern, which in Russia are rather a few.

Wind Catchers

(Issue of a magazine 1/2013, page 44)

Singapore consistently ranks as one of Asia’s most livable cities. However, it is increasingly dominated by isolated individual towers that favor exclusion over social connectivity. Buro Ole Scheeren has unveiled a pair of skyscrapers with concave walls for Singapore’s historic Kampong Glam district. The design for this Malaysian-Singaporean joint venture actively engages the space of the surrounding city to form a new civic nucleus in Singapore’s modern metropolis. The height of the paired towers will reach 186 and 170 meters. In the first skyscraper supposed to host more than 600 residential apartments, and in the second one - office spaces and a hotel.

Nakanoshima Festival Tower

(Issue of a magazine 1/2013, page 50)

Last year in Osaka was completed Nakanoshima Festival Tower, designed by renowned Japanese architecture firm Nikken Sekkei.

Tower of Living Energy

(Issue of a magazine 1/2013, page 56)

For the recent Taiwan Tower Conceptual International Competition conducted by the municipality of Taichung to design a landmark highrise building – a Taiwan Tower was presented many picturesque projects. This tower was conceived by the city authorities as a new symbol of Taiwan, and planned to house the Museum of Taichung. Today we introduce our readers the algae-producing tower designed by Sir Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham of London studio CRA B, which came second in the competition. The tower design has been developed using a hierarchical approach to design.