Won the 2008 American Institute of Architects New Jersey Chapter Award, the Irving Convention Center that located at Las Colinas, Texas was designed by RMJM Edinburgh-based international architects to be as efficient and flexible as possible, reducing the footprint and making it appealing to a wide range of organisations. In an effort to avoid the [...]
The Amphibious 1000 concept designs for futuristic semi-submerged hotel resort designed by Giancarlo Zema Design Group is located in Qatar. In the sea section there are four innovative semi-submerged hotels with underwater halls that give fascinating views. The four hotels echo the soft lines of the super-yachts anchored on land. Large diagonal glass windows make [...]
Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center that located in Montlcair, United States, was designed by ikon.5 architects. The museum also wished to transform its unwelcoming and defensive appearance. In addition to exhibiting baseball artefacts, the museum has a learning center in which classes are held for young adults in leadership, citizenship and personal and social [...]
The Harpa Reykjavik Concert + Congress Centre designed by Henning Larsen Architects is located in Reykjavik, Iceland. The glass prisms of the facades capture and reflect light, mirroring the time of day and the seasons like ‘a calendar of light’.Inspired by crystallised basalt columns commonly found in Iceland, the 12?sided southern facades create kaleidoscopic reflections [...]
Parc des Expositions firm’s first public building that located in Toulouse, France, was designed by OMA. In an effort to preserve the free-flowing green countryside that unfolds across the available site, OMA have selected a 2.8km by 320m wide strip of land to utilise for this project, reserving additional space in case the convention centre [...]