Designed by Editorial is located in Beijing, China. The Beijing Great Wheel will stand an extra 73 metres taller at 208 metres (680ft). This height was chosen to celebrate the 2008 Olympics, which opens next August. China is already holder of the “highest wheel” with an earlier effort in the southern city of Nanchang. The Beijing Wheel, which is due to be completed by 2009, will carry 1920...
Located in Sydney, Australia, Folded House was designed by Australian architects Dale Jones-Evan’s Folded House displays the way that architecture can mould into its varying surroundings over time. Since its opening in 2004 the building has integrated with its surroundings becoming one. It’s form attaches itself to the back of a Victorian Italianate villa on a large site in coastal Bronte. The...
Located in Portland, OR, United States, Indigo @ Twelve|West was designed by ZGF Architects LLP. Rising 23 storeys above Portland, Oregon’s evolving West End neighborhood, Twelve|West is a mixed-use building designed to achieve two LEED Platinum Certifications and serve as a laboratory for cutting-edge, sustainable design strategies. It features seventeen floors of apartments, street level retail...
The Vomar hypermarket and apartments is designed by KOW and situated in The Hague, Netherlands. The Vomar hypermarket of approximately 1,500 sq m and several other shops will be built on top of a parking garage. Above the hypermarket 45 apartments will be realised around a green patio. Noorderplassen West is a typical Dutch wetland and for this reason the hypermarket can also be reached by boat. Under...
Designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Davies Alpine House is high-tech glasshouses of Kew in the tradition of the innovative that provides a balanced, sustainable design, energy-efficient growing environment for a world-renowned Kew’s collection of alpine plants. The Davies Alpine House that conceived as two back-to-back arched shape is both the landmark and a welcoming gesture towards visitors...