Cooled Conservatories

Every year there are many excellent architectures spring up. And many are awarded. So through World of the year, we can see the trend of the building design.

Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay, Singapore, has won the World Building of the Year Award at the prestigious World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards 2012. The awards are divided into three main sections: Completed Buildings, Landscape Architecture, and Future Projects (for designs in progress). The project was designed by Wilkinson Eyre, Grant Associates, Atelier One and Atelier Ten.

Located in Marina Bay, Gardens by the Bay is a key project in delivering the Singapore Government’s vision of transforming Singapore into a ‘City in a Garden’. At a total of 101 hectares, the Gardens by the Bay project comprises three distinct waterfront gardens – Bay South, Bay East and Bay Central. Sitting in the heart of Bay South Garden, the Cooled Conservatory Complex provides a spectacular, all-weather attraction, comprising a 1.28 hectare cool dry conservatory (the ‘Flower Dome’) and a 0.73 hectare cool moist conservatory (the ‘Cloud Forest’). Each has its own distinct character, but both explore the horticulture of those environments most likely to be affected by climate change.

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Herzog & de Meuron & Herzog & de Meuron's Porta Volta

It is a projects that aroused a controversy. Despite Controversy, Herzog & de Meuron's Porta Volta Breaks Ground. Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have unveiled plans for a new headquarters for the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in Milan.

Two of the three long narrow buildings will be separated by a small gap, while the third will stand at an angle on the other side of the site to create a gateway through the new park.

Called Porta Volta Fondazione Feltrinelli, the project will be located to the north of the city center and will house the foundation, dedicated to the history of ideas, alongside cafes, restaurants, and shops.
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Ekler Architect Design Twin Houses

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The spacious site offered a chance to locate and form the houses freely. The fortunate South-East orientation and the marvellous view both collide with the approach. Therefore, oriented to that direction a cantilevered structure facilitates the living areas overhanging above the garages. Side loggias turning out from the main volume accommodate the representative guest door on the east side and the garden exit on the west. The composition of the buildings is based on the rotation of three volumes around a base point which allocates the individual spaces to optimal positions, and provides diverse visual character to the houses from every side view.

It is twin houses, designed by Ekler Architect. It is stand in a garden suburb of a city in East Hungary. The clients, two good friends wished to build only slightly different houses which are situated on a hillside covered by acacia grove. The two-storey buildings contain service rooms in the basement (garage, wellness room, storage, mechanical room) and living areas, rooms on the ground floor facing the hillside.

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Beijing Design Week 2012

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Beijing Design Week 2012 was held in Beijing from 28th September to 6th October, featured seven sections: Opening Ceremony, Annual Design Awards, Guest City, Beijing Design Fair, GeoCity Smart City-International Information Design Exhibition, Beijing Design Forum, and Design Hop.

The theme is Upgrading the city by design.

The Orientation is a "presentation week" that serves the public; an "exchange week" that serves the profession; a "trading week" that serves the industry.

The Organizers includes: Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China, the Municipal Government of Beijing.

Visitors are wide, including architects, interior designers, planners, 3D renderig and 3D visualization companies, architectural rendering companies and so on.

Beijing Design Week 2012 made a full success. Looking forward to next Design Week.

West Kowloon Cultural District

The following 3D visualization image is Foster + Partners' Masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District, which is to transform Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District into a world-class destination for arts and culture. It is scheduled for commissioning in 2016.

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Beside the Center, M+ Museum is also part of the Masterplan. M+ is an ambitious project, the scale of the museum building alone, at around 62,000 square metres, will be on par with the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Situated on the waterfront of the Victoria Harbour at the edge of a 14-hectare park, the architecture brief will be shaped around the museum’s core values. It will provide vital space for artists to meet, exhibit and experiment and will house a world-class permanent collection of Hong Kong, Chinese, and Asian visual culture: art, design, architecture and the moving image.

Looking Back to 2012 Zaha Hadid Architects' Design

2012 will pass soon. Looking back to the whole year of architecture industry, there are many wonderful design. Here show some about Zaha Hadid's Design during the year.

Pierrevives, Montpellier, France-The most important building by zaha Hadid since Guangzhou Opera House opened at the start of 2011. It is on a major scale, but more than that it is almost without compromise, a huge example of the architect pushing her fluid style to limits other architects can't reach.
"If I named this building after a quote from one of the greatest authors of Humanism, it is because public investment is not only a response to the needs of the moment, in this instance re-housing the archives and multimedia library of Hérault, but also a vision for the future of public service and urban planning."

Jockey Club Innovation Tower, Hong Kong, China-The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has topped out of the Jockey Club Innovation Tower on its campus. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects the 15-storey tower will become the new home for the PolyU School of Design and the newly established Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation. The new building will be 76m high.


Galaxy SOHO, Beijing, China-This project is a 330,000 sqm office, retail and entertainment complex. The architecture is a composition of five continuous, flowing volumes that are set apart, fused or linked by stretched bridges. These volumes adapt to each other in all directions, generating a panoramic architecture without corners or abrupt transitions that break the fluidity of its formal composition. This is yet another major buidling completion by architect Zaha Hadid, and coming so shortly after pierrevives it cements the studio's worldwide reputation. The architectural rendering and architectural visualization were created by frontop.

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, USA-Designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Zaha Hadid, the 46,000 sqft Broad Art Museum at MSU features a striking façade of pleated stainless steel and glass, making a clear and positive contrast to the traditional campus buildings close by. The building will present a collection of more than 7,500 objects, ranging from the Greek to modern art. The building features galleries for special exhibitions, modern and contemporary art, new media, photography and works on paper.

Kasumigaoka National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan-Zaha Hadid Architects has won the international competition to build the new National Stadium of Japan. The studio was selected ahead of 45 other international architecture firms for the US $1.62bn development. Japanese architect Tadao Ando chaired the jury which included British architects Richard Rogers and Norman Foster. Ando praised the fluidity and innovation of Hadid's design and how it complements Tokyo's landscape. "The entry's dynamic and futuristic design embodies the messages Japan would like to convey to the rest of the world," said Tadao.

Pleated Shell Structures, SCI-Arc Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA-Oct 25 2012 - Zaha Hadid’s installation at the SCI-Arc Gallery represents an "evolution of architectural methodologies related to self-supporting, curved surface geometries". The show combines parametric design (algorithmic form generation) with research by 20th century designers such as Frei Otto, Felix Candela and Heinz Isler. By integrating form-finding methods, Zaha Hadid expands upon Frei Otto’s material explorations and creates double curved surfaces through computational simulations : Zaha Hadid SCI-Arc Installation - SCI Arc Architecture News

House for Naomi Campbell, Moscow, Russia-This is a futuristic home for Russian billionaire Vladislav Doronin and his girlfriend Supermodel Naomi Campbell. Zaha Hadid was asked to design the residence to look like a spaceship. The extraordinary home features a tower that pushes high to gain good views. This unusual residence has an area of 2,650 sqm and is located Barvikha, Moscow.

The Architecture Event in 2013

Today I surf online and look for something about architecture event in 2013. Why? If you want to know a field, you must know not only the field you are in, but also the field related. I'm engaged in architectural rendering and architectural visualization field. Knowing the trends of architecture in future is necessary. So I make a record about the architecture event in 2013.


The 3rd International Exhbition of MIDEX, Tehran, Iran
7 - 10 Jan 2013
Modern house, Architecture, Interior design, lighting, new technologies and accessories Exhbition

Resource Efficient Buildings - International Congress, Vienna, Austria
21 - 22 Feb 2013
Organizer: Austrian Institute for Building and Ecology
Event details at www.ibo.at

Harvard School of Public Health - Architecture Event, MA, USA
Apr 1 - 4 2013
'Prevention through Design for Construction'
April 1 - 4, 2013
Boston, MA
This course explores methodologies for preventing or reducing occupational injuries and fatalities through the inclusion of prevention considerations into the building lifecycle, particularly the design process.
https://ecpe.sph.harvard.edu/Design-for-Safety

Istanbul Architecture Event, Turkey
10 - 12 Apr 2013
CONTEMP ART '13: Urban life and Contemporary Arts
10th to 12nd April 2013
Istanbul
CONTEMP ART '13 will focus on the relationship of urbanism and arts. The conference will open its doors to styles and approaches produced by artists and scholars from different geographies, identities and tendencies of contemporary arts.
Web address: http://www.contempartconference.org

Harvard School of Public Health - Architecture Event, MA, USA
May 6 - 10 2013
'Guidelines for Laboratory Design: Health and Safety Considerations'
May 6 - 10, 2013
Boston, MA
This program takes a multi-disciplinary approach to laboratory design, with a focus on health and safety. Participants will be able to ensure that the completed laboratory will be safe, free of hazards, ergonomically sound, and environmentally friendly.
https://ecpe.sph.harvard.edu/Laboratory-Design

3rd Global Conference - Urban Popcultures, Prague, Czech Republic
12 - 14 May 2013
Presentations, papers, performances, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and pre-formed panels.
Website: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/urban-popcultures/call-for-papers/