City Centre Campus at University of Wales in Newport, United Kingdom

BDP has create a new visual identity for Newport region through Glazed volume for University of Wales’s City Centre Campus that located in Newport, United Kingdom. Read more details below: The University of Wales, Newport commissioned a masterplan to create a new campus for the schools of Art, Media, Design, Business and Technology on the [...]

Tags: Architecture, carbon technologies, Energy conservation, Environmental design, Low-energy building, Sustainability, sustainable building, University of Wales

Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China

The Shanghai Oriental Sports Center designed by gmp von Gerkan, Marg und Partner is located in Shanghai, China.  Water is the overarching theme of both the park and the architecture of the stadiums and the media centre. It is the connecting element between the buildings, which stand on raised platforms in specially constructed lakes. Thus [...]

Tags: badminton, basketball, boxing, China, FINA, FINA World Aquatics Championships, FINA World Swimming Championships, Hall Stadium, media centre, Natatorium, Olympic sports, Recreation, Shanghai, Sports, steel structures, swimming, the FINA World Swimming Championships

Hutye Civic Center a new civic centre in Pukou,Nanjing, China

Located in Pukou,Nanjing, China, Hutye Civic Center a new civic centre was designed by Ck Designworks. As part of a 20 sq km masterplan, this community, entertainment and municipal building is one of six primary focus buildings intended to engender a sense of place to six sub sectors of the overall master plan. CK Designworks [...]

Tags: Architecture, China, Civic center, Hutye Civic Center, Nanjing, Retail, Shan District

Prince Henry Community Centre in Sydney, Australia

The Prince Henry Community Centre designed by lahznimmo is located in Sydney, Australia.  The coastal site for the community centre lies amongst the manicured landscape of the Coast Golf Club and overlooks Little Bay Beach where Christo and Jeanne-Claude famously wrapped the coast in 1969.  Immediately to the north of the site is a small [...]

Tags: Australia, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Coast Golf Club, coastal site, Henry Community Centre, Jeanne-Claude, Landscape, Little Bay New South Wales, Little Bay Beach, Nouveau réalisme, Prince, Prince Henry Community Centre, Sydney

Asynsis Architecture + Design, horizontal observation wheel in Hong Kong, China

Designed by Nigel Anthony Reading with Aedas and Arup, Asynsis Architecture + Design, horizontal observation wheel is located in Hong Kong, China. It is intended as an icon of sustainability because of its use of renewable wind, tidal and solar energy, and to be carbon neutral by virtue of carbon-offsetting the construction footprint through tree [...]

Tags: Action on climate change, Aedas, Arup, Carbon neutrality, Carbon offset, China, Climate change, Climatology, Eiffel Tower, Environment, Hong Kong, London, Natural Disaster, Nigel Anthony Reading, Paris, tidal and solar energy