Aviation City
Global studio Woods Bagot has won the international competition to design China Southern Airport City, a 400 hectare mixed-use development set on the Liuxi River, in Guangzhou, China
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Work has begun in Shanghai on the Foster + Partners and Thomas Heatherwick-designed Shanghai Bund International Financial Centre. The green project is comprised of a hotel, cinema, central plaza and retail mall over 420,000 sq m, with two commercial towers designed to achieve LEED Gold certification.
Wildcat or Reality?
The Georgian government not long ago announced the plans to build a city from scratch in marshlands by the Black Sea. There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the proposal and the details have been vague as no official documentation has been released.
Peace and tranquility
The extension of The People’s Hospital of Futian in Shenzhen, China, endeavors to integrate world-class hospital services, medical research and surrounding community in urban park environment.
Exclusive Design
Etihad Towers is a luxury mixeduse development located at Corniche West, Abu Dhabi. The development comprises 5 towers above a 5 level podium and 4 levels of basement.
Taking Centre Stage
From its days as the “Rutherford Dance Hall” owned by silent film star Mary Pickford to its transformation into “Myron’s Ballroom” and host to acts from The Go-Go’s to Van Halen, 1000 S. Grand Avenue continues to be an iconic Los Angeles address in its newest incarnation as a high-performance retail and residential tower.
CO2 for the Greenhouse
Swedish firm Plantagon broke ground last week on the first vertical greenhouse in the city of Linkoping. The slanting structure was designed by Sweco, and is hoped to be the first in a series of similar volumes across the world.
Innovative City
SOM has won the job to design a compact, environmentally-enhanced community of satellite cities along the Chinese high-speed rail corridors connecting Beijing to the port city of Tianjin.
Vertical Forest
Authorship of the project Bosco Verticale, which was devoted an article in the previous issue of our magazine (“The Vertical Forest”, “TB”, № 1, 2012) is owned to Boeri Studio, which was founded in 1999 by Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barecca, Giovanni La Varra.
Information Architecture
Information Based Architecture (IBA) was originally set up in London in 1998 as a partnership between architects Mark Hemel and Barbara Kuit.
