BORABoras park pavilions and skating rink in Borås, Sweden

Designed by Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect, BORABoras park pavilions and skating rink is located in Borås, Sweden. A glazed winter garden and a bandstand are sited in the park as rounded forms, thin perforated shells clearly visible from the city centre. The shells form a meeting point where several paths intersect, thereby framing an open [...]

Tags: Bandstand, Borås, Entertainment, Glade, Ice rink, Sweden

Northwest Community Hospital – South Pavilion in Chicago, United States

Designed by Cannon Design, Northwest Community Hospital – South Pavilion is sited in Chicago, United States. The project maintains strong connections to the outdoors, from colour and materials to the accessibility and visibility of balconies on all patient floors. As a semi-urban campus in a suburb of Chicago, the luxury of opening a door and [...]

Tags: Academia, Accessibility, Chicago, Disability, Northwest Community Hospital, Nurse, physical therapy, Science, South Pavilion, Transportation planning, travel distances, United States, Urban Design, Urban studies and planning

Green Tomorrow in Yongin, South Korea

Green Tomorrow that located in Yongin, South Korea, was designed by Samoo Architects & Engineers. The main concept of this project is to adopt the sustainable design techniques into a traditional Korean architecture, promoting public awareness on energy saving and proposing a prototype of a green urban housing unit that accommodates a living space best [...]

Tags: Architectural history, Divided regions, energy saving, energy savings, Environment, Korean architecture, North Korea, Political geography, Political philosophy, Politics, South Korea, Yongin

Caves Beachside in New South Wales Northcoast, Australia

Designed by HBO+EMTB, Caves Beachside is located in New South Wales Northcoast, Australia. The Caves Beachside development has won the 2010 UDIA Award for the best development in regional New South Wales (NSW) and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The leisure and tourist destination on the NSW central coast north of Sydney was designed by [...]

Tags: Australia, Boardwalk, Capital Territory, Cave, Caves Beach, Caves Beach New South Wales, Cebac Pty Ltd., City of Lake Macquarie, Geography, Lake Macquarie, New South, New South Wales, Physical geography, spectacular site, Suburbs of Sydney, Sydney, Wales Northcoast

One Angel Lane in London, United Kingdom

That located in  London, United Kingdom, was designed by Fletcher Priest Architects, One Angel Lane formerly known as Watermark Place, replaces Mondial House, a redundant international telephone exchange in the heart of the City of London, on a riverside site next to Cannon Street station. The site has an important place in the history of [...]

Tags: Angel Lane, Atrium, Britain, Cannon Street station, Economic history of England, Geography of Europe, Hanseatic League, London, Louvres, Paul’s Cathedral, redundant international telephone exchange, riverside site, Steelyard, Thames, Tower Bridge, Transport in London, United Kingdom