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Regatta hotel, Jakarta

Taking on a nautical theme, the developers say the ۱۰ smaller towers represent sailing boats whilst the larger building is ‘the lighthouse’. It’s the lighthouse that steals the show for me, possibly the most incredible looking structure I’ve seen for a long time. If it ends up looking anything close to these pictures I’ll be impressed.

Penang global city centre, Malaysia

Following months of speculation and sturdy opposition, this humungous project is in the final stages of approval and apparently construction will startvery soon. Even so, due to the size of the plan it will take at least 15 years to complete. Resembling a sci-fi city, the area will be crowned by 2 x 200m towers and completely transform the small island of Penang.

Gazprom headquarters, Russia

This gigantic, 300m tall glass flame of a building will house the gazprom headquarters in st. Petersburg, dwarfing all structures in its vicinity. It will apparently change color up to 10 times per day depending on the position of the sun. The building has already been nicknamed ‘corn on the cob’ by unhappy locals.

Aqua, USA

From a distance this skyscraper, to be completed in 2009 in Chicago, will seem quite traditional. It’ll only be when you get close and look up that you can appreciate the ripple/jelly effect created by variously sized balconies from top to bottom.

cctv headquarters, china

At a modest 234m the cctv building isn’t going to stand out from a distance. However the design and shape is a crowd stopper to say the least and will be another incredible addition to Beijing’s skyline in time for the 2008 Olympics. The shape, described as a ‘z criss-cross’ results in a very high, seemingly unsupported corner at the front. Let’s hope there’s a glass floor up there.

Russia tower, Russia

Topped with an observation deck over the city of Moscow, Russia tower will become the tallest building in Europe when completed in 2012 and twice the height of the Eiffel tower. Construction has already started on this angular beast which was designed by foster & partners, also responsible for the gherkin and spaceport America, currently in development.

Burj Dubai, Dubai

This is the big one. When completed next year it will be the tallest man-made structure in the world and the tallest building by a long shot with a predicted height of 818m. Note: currently the tallest building on earth, excluding an antenna, is Taipei 101 in Taiwan which stands at 509m.

Chicago spire, USA

The phenomenal Chicago spire, when completed in 2010, will be the world’s tallest residential building and the tallest building of any kind in the western world. Seemingly modeled on the image of a giant drill poking through the ground, the 609m structure will dominate the Chicago skyline.

Residence Antalya, India

Construction has begun on residence Antalya despite opposition from those who see it as an ‘excessive’ design in a city where more than 65% of the population live in slums. politics aside and after you recover from the initial shock of seeing a skyscraper that resembles an ikea cd rack, the building actually looks like it may succeed as a stunning, unique, green piece of architecture.

کلیسای جوبیلی یکی از شاهکارهای ریچارد میر در محله Tor Tre Teste شهر رم واقع شده است. ساختمان کلیسا در بلوکی از ساختمانهای دهه ۷۰ احاطه شده است. این پروژه در مسابقه ای که از معماران بزرگی مانند تادو آندو ، سانتیاگو کالاتراوا ، پیتر آیزنمن و فرانک گهری دعوت شده بود برنده شد.

Architect Zaha Hadid was appointed last month to design a new building on the campus of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Called the Innovation Tower, the building will house the institute’s School of Design.

Below is text on the project from Zaha Hadid Architects, followed by a press release from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University:

INNOVATION TOWER, Hong Kong POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY [HONG KONG, CHINA] 2007-2011

The fluid character of the Innovation Tower is generated through an intrinsic composition of its landscape, floor plates and louvers that dissolves the classic typology of the tower and the podium into an iconic seamless piece. These fluid internal and external courtyards create new public spaces of an intimate scale which complement the large open exhibition forums and outdoor recreational facilities to promote a diversity of civic spaces.

Urbanism

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK PolyU) is an urban endeavour by virtue of addition and growth over the last 40 years. The rich patchwork of various faculties, communities and facilities are strung together by a community of visually coherent yet different buildings.

From a process of outward expansion, the HK PolyU is now looking inwards to develop itself by making creative use of its remaining void on the North side of the campus.

The Innovation Tower aims to use these voids to create an accessible urban space which will transform how the Hong Kong Poly University is perceived and the way it will be used. The building unashamedly aims to stimulate and project a vision of possibilities for its future, as well as reflect the history of the HK PolyU by encapsulating in its architecture the process of change.

Architecture

The proposed vision of the new Innovation Tower presents a unique opportunity to re-examine and address a creative, multidisciplinary environment. Our concept in its first instance collects the variety of programmes of the school.Having undergone a strict process of examination of the multiple relationships amongst their unique identities they have been arranged in accordance to their ‘collateral flexibilities’.Priority lies in the drawing in of the campus staff, students and public into a welcoming new space that acts as both the building’s entrance and organiser for the existing complex.

The first architectural gesture is to raise the landscape of the existing football field and tennis grounds, so as to place the main pedestrian entrance of the new school building on a level open to its immediate context at podium level. The free ground below becomes accessible from the established main campus route (Yuk Choi Road) to proposed workshops, parking and access to future development on ‘Phase 8’. The new Innovation Tower on podium level is established as an open public foyer that channels deep into the building through a column-free, open showcase forum. The long integrated path from Suen Chi Sun Memorial Square guides the visitor to the main entrance and from here, a generous and welcoming space openly leads its visitors access to supporting public facilities (shop, cafeteria, museum) through a generous open exhibition ‘showcase’ spanning over two levels between podium and ground level.

The podium level is a route that ramps and stretches through towards the open ground with relocated recreational outdoor facilities. From the entry foyer, a long escalator penetrates deep upwards through four levels of openly glazed workspaces. The myriad of workspaces accommodated within the new school offer themselves as a variety of visual showcases.

The route through the building becomes a clear upward cascade of showcases and events allowing the student or visitor to visually covet and engage work and exhibits throughout its circulation passage. These routes aim to promote new opportunities of interaction between the diverse types of users through its spaces through every level.

Voids bring in natural daylight, fresh air and the sense of continuity of space. In this way, the programmes of the tower, which comprise of learning clusters and central facilities, are allowed to create coordinated repertoires and dialogue between respective volumes.

Here are new images of 100 11th Avenue, a residential tower in Chelsea, New York, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel and which recently broke ground.

Above: studies of sunlight on curtain walling at different times of day. Below: with 1,650 panes of glass, the curtain walling is described as “the most highly engineered and complex” ever built in New York City.

Above and below: visualisations of how apartment interiors might look.

More images and info in our earlier story.

There is further info on the building and the apartments on the project’s website, which has just been relaunched.

Below: ground floor restaurant

Below: ground floor restaurant

Below: ground floor restaurant as seen from street.

نوآوری معمارانه موزه هنر میلواکی در ابتدای قرن بیست و یکم با نوآوری قصر بلورین اثر جوزف پاکستن در قرن نوزدهم قابل مقایسه است. این بنا نیز همچون تندیسی زیبا و هنرمندانه در محیط اطراف خود می درخشد.

بدون شک ، موزه هنر میلواکی از برجسته ترین آثار معماری سانتیاگو کالاتراوا محسوب می شود که ترکیبی متنوع و پیچیده از معماری و سازه است. در این بنا هم سقفهای مواج و متحرک موجود است ، هم پلی معلق و زیبا و هم نورپردازیهای خلاقانه. در مجموع ، این شاهکار در زمره برترین آثار معماری جهان قرار می گیرد ، هرچند این عنوان را نیز در سال ۲۰۰۱ از دیدگاه مجله TIME کسب نمود و همچنین در همان سال در نظرخواهی عمومی وب سایت جایزه معماری پرایتزکر ، بیشترین آرا را به خود اختصاص داد ، اما در پایان ، گلن مورکات استرالیایی جایزه مذکور را از آن خود نمود.

هنگامی که ساخت ضمیمه موزه هنر میلواکی (MAM) به پایان رسید ، در مراسم افتتاحیه آن که در ۱۴ اکتبر سال ۲۰۰۱ انجام پذیرفت ، سی و دو هزار نفر به بازدید آن شتافتند ، به گونه ای که تمامی محوطه به اشغال جمعیت مشتاق درآمده بود. تا پایان سال ۲۰۰۱ (یعنی مدت زمانی کمتر از هشت ماه) ، ۳۷۵ هزار نفر از موزه بازدید کردند. این آمار در سال ۲۰۰۳ به حدود ۴۳۴ هزار نفر رسید ، درصورتیکه در سال ۲۰۰۰ میلادی ، تنها ۱۶۵ هزار نفر از آن دیدن کرده بودند. پس از گشایش ضمیمه موزه ، روزانه افزون بر ۵۰۰۰ نفر از آن بازدید می کنند درحالیکه پیش از این ، به طور متوسط هزار نفر از موزه دیدن می کردند.

طرح کالاتراوا ، نمایانگر قدرت معماری است ، به گونه ای که این بنا امروزه تبدیل به نماد شاخص شهر میلواکی شده . به زودی ، جهانیان این شهر را به لحاظ دارا بودن چنین اثر زیبا ، خلاقانه و اثر گذار تحسین می کنند و همواره آن را به یاد دارند.

رابرت گرین استریت ، رئیس دانشکده معماری و برنامه ریزی شهری دانشگاه ویسکانسن ، استاد کمیسیون برنامه ریزی شهری و یکی از اعضای کمیته بیست و یک نفری معماران برگزیده انتخاب کننده طراح ضمیمه موزه در سال ۱۹۹۴ ، ضمن برگزیدن کالاتراوا از میان معماران مطرح جهان همچون «آراتا ایسوزاکی» و «فومیهیکو ماکی» اظهار داشت: من کاملاً مطمئنم که شهروندان از خلق این اثر فوق العاده ، هیجان زده شده اند و این مهر تأییدی بر گزینش صحیح ما در انتخاب معمار بزرگ ، سانتیاگو کالاتراوا است.

لازم به ذکر است که ضمیمه موزه هنر میلواکی که نخستین اثر معماری کالاتراوا در ایالات متحده است به ساختمانی که پیش از این توسط «ارو سارینن» ، معمار خلاق فنلاندی – آمریکایی ، در سال ۱۹۵۷ تکمیل شده بود ، الحاق گشت.

برگرفته شده از سلسله مقالات معرفی شاهکارهای معماری جهان نوشته مهندس محمد رضا دهقانی

March 18, 2008 One of the key challenges in urban architecture over the next 50 years will be figuring out how to squeeze vast numbers of additional people into urban areas that are already extremely crowded. London, for example, will somehow have to deal with a projected 100,000 extra inhabitants every year until 2016. The current plan of building new “commuter towns” on the city’s outskirts causes a raft of problems – but architecture think tanks are working on ambitious solutions that go vertical instead of horizontal in search of space. Could 100,000 people be comfortably housed in a single structure? Could one building realistically be a whole new town, with schools, parks, public squares and hospitals?

In terms of population density , London is one of the least crowded major cities in the world – five times fewer people per square kilometre than Paris, for example, and 8 times fewer than Cairo. But the fact remains that the city’s population is growing at a rapid rate, and horizontal expansion into the surrounding areas is eating up increasingly important agricultural land, as well as intensifying all the transport issues that come with urban sprawl.

Popular Architecture would propose a radically different solution – one that would generate homes for a year’s worth of new arrivals, while maintaining London’s old-world streetscape at ground level and eliminating greenbelt expansion.

The proposal is to go upwards, with vertical towers of unprecedented size, each representing an entire new town by the time it’s completed. Each tower would be 1500 metres high, its top floors nudging the cloud layer. Each would house 100,000 people in total, but beyond mere accommodation, each tower would function as an entire town unit, with its own schools, hospitals, parks and gardens, sports facilities, business areas, political representatives and community spaces.

The vertical village towers are conceived as hollow tubes, with large holes to allow light and air through the entire construction. Occasional floor discs spread throughout the height of the building will give inhabitants large central areas in the middle of the tube to use as gathering spaces. Such a density of population could help lower the individual energy requirements of each inhabitant, reducing the ecological impact of the population as a whole.

While the building itself is unlikely ever to be seriously considered for construction – imagine the number of elevators it would need, and the practicalities of moving produce, furniture and other equipment between the floors, let alone the safety implications of open areas at such heights and with such wind exposure – the concept can serve as a conversation-starter for urban planners looking to face the challenges of the current and coming centuries.

این کانسپت جالب توسط Marcin Panpuch در موسسه معماری بریتانیا در نمایشگاه طرح خانه آینده ارائه شده است.

طرح خانه پانپوچ یک کره با قابلیت جابجاییست که می تواند هم در آب شناور شود هم توسط جرثقیل بلند شود و به یک برج در کنار بقیه کره ها بچسبد.

دلیل کروی بودن طرح به حداقل رساندن مساحت سطحی خانه و بنابراین کاهش اتلاف حرارت به محیط است.

این خانه از سه بخش تشکیل می شود : منطقه زندگی که در بالا قرار دارد، منطقه کار و خواب که در وسط قرار دارد و قسمتهای خدماتی و انبارها که در پایین قرار دارند. علاوه بر این پله ها، آشپزخانه، حمام و دستشویی در هسته مرکزی خانه قرار دارند.

این خانه به دلیل سلولهای خورشیدی مولد الکتریسیته خودبسندگی انرژی دارد. باتری ها برای ذخیره الکتریسیته در قسمت پایین تعبیه شده اند.

تانک آب همچنین برای ذخیره حرارت جمع آوری شده در طی روز استفاده می شود و در شب این حرارت به داخل خانه آزاد می شود.

این جور خانه ها پتانسیل این را دارند که ارتباط بین یک مکان شهری و جمعیت آن و روابط منحصر به فرد بین مردم و خانه هایشان را دوباره تعریف کنند. مسلما یک معنای جدید برای خانه های محرک با این طرح ها تعریف می شود.

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شرکت Al-Masart در حال حاضر بر روی یک پروژه مسکونی در جده ( عربستان صعودی ) کار می کند. برای این پروژه اسم ( برج الماس )  در نظر گرفته شده است. انتظار می رود که این برج تقریبا ۳۵۰ متر ارتفاع داشته باشد که حدود ۳۰۰ واحد مسکونی ۱، ۲، ۳ و ۴ خوابه را در خود جای می دهد. برج الماس تقریبا ۸۰ طبقه خواهد داشت.

با نظر به این سازه و و سازه های بسیار زیادی دیگری که در خاور میانه ساخته شده یا در دست ساختمان هستند مشخص است که به طور کلی آسیا گام بسیار موفقی را در زمینه معماری و ساخت و ساز آسمان خراش ها برداشته است.

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