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 [...]
The Torre Diagonal Zero Zero designed by EMBA is located in Barcelona, Spain. It is a contextual tower that has a double reading, from near and afar, in response to the two scales that such tall buildings must address. Taking the urban directions that form the perimeter of the plot as generators of its form, [...]
Located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Museum of the Built Environment was designed by FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS. As an educational public facility dedicated to the promotion of art and architecture in the built environment it is imperative that the finished concept is representative of potential of the design industry. The Museum will look to inform visitors on [...]
The Granite Tower offices designed by Atelier Christian de Portzamparc is located in Paris, France. Forming the head of this triangle of towers the Granite Tower (Tour Granite) covers 70,000 sq m and forms a prismatic shape to make best use of the footprint space. La Défense is a cosmopolitan business area to the west [...]
The One York Tribeca designed by TEN ARQUITECTOS is located in New York, United States. Norten has transformed an industrial, block-long nineteenth century brick building, with a dynamic transparent glass tower, which like a quartz vein running through stone, both fractures and fuses the building, illuminating and clarifying its dense materiality. The faceted intervention organizes [...]