Asmaçati Shopping and Meeting Point in Izmir, Turkey

Designed by Tabanlioglu Architects, Asmaçat? Shopping and Meeting Point is semi-open retail facility in Turkey with features perforated shades referencing grape vines. Read more details below: Located in the largest city of the Aegean Coast of Turkey, the semi-open Asmaçat? Shopping and Meeting Point represents the lifestyle of Izmir where people prefer to spend time outdoors [...]

Tags: contemporary material, contemporary platform, extraverted architectural projection, semi-open retail facility, traditional and modern architecture, traditional gazebo model

Holmenkollen Ski Jump in Oslo, Norway

The Holmenkollen Ski Jump designed by JDS Architects is located in Oslo, Norway. Rather than having a series of dispersed pavilions on site, their design unifies the various amenities into one holistic diagram. The judges booths, the commentators, the trainers, the Royal family, the VIPs, the wind screens, the circulations, the lobby, the entrance to [...]

Tags: Holmenkollen, Holmenkollen ski jump, Nordic skiing, Norway, Oslo, Ski jumping, Stainless steel

TEXO®, Versatile panel system proves effective across a wide range of applications in United Kingdom

Designed by Tensoforma, TEXO®, Versatile panel system proves effective across a wide range of applications  is located in United Kingdom. TEXO® consists of an aluminium extrusion frame system which can be clad with a huge variety of solid and mesh fabric types. An elastomeric strip attached to the fabric performs like a spring and ensures [...]

Tags: Earthquake engineering, Engineering, Extrusion, Lightbox, Roofs, Structural engineering, Structural system, Tensile architecture, Tensile structure, United Kingdom

Tripoli Congress Center a wooden and metalic in Tripoli, Libya

The Tripoli Congress Center a wooden and metalic designed by Tabanlioglu is located in Tripoli, Libya. Surrounded by the woods, the rectangular two-storey ‘block’ is nested in a semi-transparent metal envelop as a “shield”  that opens up to the external landscape with a wide portico that defines the main entrance. Between the mesh and the [...]

Tags: Africa, City, Filters, Geography, Libya, Mesh, Phoenician colonies, Political geography, semi-transparent metal, Transparent materials, Tripoli, Tripoli Congress Center

The Golden Box an un-private house in Singapore

The Golden Box  an un-private house designed by K2LD Architects is located in Singapore.  It is an ‘un-private’ house. The ground level living space is a 26 m long and 6 m wide column free space with 3-sided full-height glass panels exposing the user within. It brings in the views from the outside, taking advantage [...]

Tags: Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy, Human behavior, Religion, Singapore, Veil