Shanghai Expo 2010: the Danish Pavilion by Bjarke Ingels Group at Shanghai Expo 2010 opened to the public today along with the rest of the Expo. Have a look at the pictures of the pavilion and at the video of Bjarke Ingels bikes through the danish pavilion. Read More »
The architects Schmidhuber + Kaindl has designed the German Pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010 . Read More »
We have just received the project Architecture of Bamboo – The “German-Chinese House” at the EXPO 2010 Shanghai, by Markus Heinsdorff to share it with our readers. Read More »
Expo 2010 Shanghai is the first World Fair to adopt sustainable urban development as its theme. As consequence concepts which legitimise the extensive resource use and major investment of a World Fair must be promoted. The basic concept of “Norway Powered by Nature”, designed by Helen & Hard, directly engages this challenge, placing emphasis and awareness on multiple aspects of sustainability. Read More »
Living in the city definitely has a lower environmental footprint, but families often miss out on having a backyard and a garden. The Spiral Tower, designed by Philipp von Bock, is a family friendly eco tower designed for Berlin. Apartments are stacked in opposite directions in a criss-cross pattern, leaving open spaces for garden terraces. This creative design allows each apartment to have its own private garden terrace, allowing families to have both the suburbs and the city. Read More »
With about 21 days to go until the start of the Shanghai World Expo, some of the amazing pavilions are already complete, while others are rushing to finish. The Shanghai Corporate Pavilion is almost done and here are the pictures to show its current status. We were really impressed last year when we learned that the pavilion would be constructed from recycled CD jewel cases transformed into thousands of polycarbonate tubes lit up with LED lights. And the results are looking phenomenal! Read More »
Polish architect Hugon Kowalski from H3AR architect and design has sent to us a recently proposed building that allows access to underground waters through the application of water pumps in Darfur, Sudan. Read More »
Forty years from now, Australia, as well as the rest of the world, could look dramatically different — possibly even underwater, like this ‘Ocean City’ concept by Arup Biomimetrics. Dubbed Syph, the proposed underwater city, results when land begins to disappear and the value of what remains sky-rockets, and people are unable to afford living on land. Syph evolves into a collection of organisms with specialized functions like energy generation and sustainable food production that work together to form a new underwater city. Ocean City is just one of many designs in a competition to design Australia’s future as part of the “Now + When Australian Urbanism Exhibition“. Read More »
The Singapore Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 is to be called Urban Symphony – a tribute to how Singapore houses a delicate harmony of cultures coexisting together in a city-state. Read More »
Ocean levels are rising around the globe, so rather than tethering our buildings to the sinking shoreline why not suit them for a life at sea? That’s the approach behind the Water-Scraper, a futuristic self-sufficient floating city. A special mention in this year’s eVolo Skyscraper Competition, the design expands the concept of a floating island into a full-fledged underwater skyscraper that harvests renewable energy and grows its own food. Read More »
‘Tower | City | Tower’, a skyscraper project that seeks to restore the natural dimension of the city of Marseille while taking into account the constraints of its urban landscapes. Marseille is the second largest city of France where issues of urban sprawl has become increasingly evident. Read More »
‘Vertical Confluence’ is a contemporary skyscraper designed by parisian based architects Jiang Yuan and Xu Yang. Sitting at the brink of a la seine and La Marne river in Paris, this proposed design seeks to integrate the historical urban fabric of these two areas. The tower exercises several principles in order to achieve this goal. Public spaces are created as the confluence skyscraper helps to adjoin the project park on the Bank of Ivry and the green spaces of Charenton-le-point. Read More »
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