Hearst Tower by Norman Foster

Recycled materials in Manhattan – Hearst Tower by Norman Foster

Hearst Tower in Manhattan, New York, USA designed by Pritzker Prize laureate Norman Foster was opened at the end of the last year. The 42 levels tower is characteristic by glass- and metal-skinned facade with huge diagonal grid, which make multistory corner triangles. The building was constructed using 85 percent recycled steel and designed to consume 26 percent less energy than its conventional neighbors.

The Building of the National Library of the Czech Republic – architectural competition results

Other projects

Curving bridge by Future Systems

Planned Royal Canal Linear Park in Dublin, which floats around the River Liffey, is going to be stepped by new dramatic bridge from Future Systems. The resulting structure is almost as wide as it is long to accommodate traffic lines, cyclists and pedestrians. Its soft and languid shape and colourful design is going to be visible from quite a distance along the canal in either direction, which unsure people of Dublins qualit urban plannig.

Modern Architecture

Ecological housing building COR Miami Florida

Ecological housing building COR in Miami, Floride, USA by architects from Oppenheim office will be built in 2010. Except using solar panels, own wind turbines is hyper-efficient also shell of the building, so all his structure. Tower is a complex with offices, fitnes studio or diverse residential apartments.

Machine for living by Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel describes his proposal for a tower with residential living on 110 11th street in NY, USA as „a vision machine“. The building is noted for rounded wall a using diverse colourless panels of glass, set together in different angles and turning. 1650 panels on a 23 story structure just confirm amazement from proposal. Cover of building is behaving every hour or day variable and this game means to unclose the house to the nature.

Sound in colourfull box – Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum, Neutelings and Riedijk

The new built Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, designed by Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk, wrapped in a luxurious skin of colorful cast-glass panels, it is their most gorgeous work to date. The building is conceived as a perfect cube, half of it buried underground. Interier is divided by materiallity for diferent worlds. Architects had played also with symbolic, which is clearly seen in a facade of multimedia hall where steel profile evokes the stained-glass windows of a medieval cathedral.

The tower that change a skyline in London

Rafaels Vinoly proposal for a new tower in a centre of London, UK, divided the architectural community into two highly charged camps. The tower will change a siluet of the town so considerably, that some architects have a thoughts that project may have crossed an invisible line of ‘acceptability’. The majority are in favour, which shows, that architect Vinoly designed a notable building.

Mecanoo inspire with a tree for a building in Taiwan

Netherlands architecture office Mecanoo architecten won the international competition for a New National Performing Arts Centre in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. An important source of inspiration for Mecanoo’s building design were the existing one of the world’s largest trees, the banyan trees on location. The building is really variable, with a lot of public space on the roof, where people can enjoy Tai Chi, meditate or just relax.

Modern Architecture

Burj Dubai actual photos

Burj Dubai is a skyscraper under construction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the tallest man-made structure on Earth, despite being incomplete. Construction began on September 21, 2004, and it is expected to be completed and ready for occupation in September 2009.

Fluid pavilion by 3deluxe

Pavilion called Leonardo Glass Cube near Bad Driburg in Germany was built by 3deluxe studio. Concrete pathways between green grass are folding to facade, they are surrounded there with glass and going up to the roof, where this 2D concrete elements change themselves to three-dimensional structure that complete interior.

Virtual exhibition – ME100

You can find an exhibition on the website www.me100.cz. It is work of czech atelier DRNH. Antonin Novak and Petr Valenta are inviting us on exhibition about town, which is inspirated by books of czech writers Pavel Hnilicka and Vaclav Cilek. Architects are trying to warn us about situation in postcommunistic states, where the landscape is devastated by unsensitive housing. So they show us in couple of projects the way we should go.

Eco-hotel in a quarry

The Songjiang district, near the Chinese city Shangai, is a popular zone for recreation. Firm Atkins, famous for their grandiose projects, proposed a set of hotels called Songjiang. The key factor of the design is the water, that is all around the building. The hotel is created in the deep quarry and this point reflexes on a simple look. The building has also underwater parts. The roof is grassy and whole complex will use geothermal energy for an electrical supply and heating, so the interference with the nature will be smaller.

Zaha Hadid and conception of Glasgow Museum of Transport

     Project for a New Glasgow Museum of Transport, Scotland, by Zaha Hadid was selected from 44 others architects and designers and the museum will be open to the public by 2009. The building is concipate as a tunnel-like shed, which is open at opposite ends, where the building diverts to create a journey away from the external context into the world of the exhibits. cross-sectional outline is a responsive gesture to encapsulating a wave or a ‘pleated’ movement, contrast to lenghtwise section.

Modern Architecture

Fight about space for Columbia University

One of the most famous US university is fighting about united space in NY. Columbia University nowdays is alll around NY and student spend hours by travelling. So Uni presents new plan by Renzo Piano and SOM, which are rebuilding university areal on three lined streets in Manhattan. But is not so easy, lot of statesmans are againts. So fight started and only time will show us, who will be winner.

Urban research by MRGD

MRGD is young architecture office in GB with architects Melike Altinisik, Samer Chaumoun and Daniel Widrig. Not long time ago they revealed their research project of rebuilding of quite boring tower Centre Point in the centre of London. They used nice organic form of some kind of parasite. This parasite don´t suck energy from building, but spirit of town into the buidling.

Tower Verre in New York by Jean Nouvel

Architect Jean Nouvel has revealed his design for a new 75-story tower. The building is situated in centre of NY, next to the Museum of Modern Art,MoMa. The tower contain a hotel, luxury apartments and three floors for use by MoMA. The most important part of the project is construction. It´s made from steel disordered structure. The building will be an interesting form against the orthogonal towers of NY.

OMA in Shenzhen

       OMA won the competition to design China’s Shenzhen Stock Exchange building in December last year. Main conception is based on the essence of the stock market as speculation and the desire to create a building that is beyond symbolism for an almost virtual stock market.A few people are critical about the form, but at least building is multifunctional with public spaces also for festivals, on a ground floor.