The Lemperle residence is designed by Jonathan Segal FAIA and is located in La Jolla, California, USA. Sweeping glass walls provide panoramic views of its stunning oceanfront location. This ocean front residence promotes an outdoor connection through the use of expansive glass and deck areas. Due to the small pie shaped lot the house [...]
Architect Zaha Hadid's undulating Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku has been named Design of the Year by London's Design Museum in June-2014. It's an architectural landscape where concepts of seamless spatial flow are made real – creating a whole new kind of civic space for the city. The building was designed to host exhibitions, concerts and other cultural activities beneath [...]
Construction is underway on a hotel resort that will nestle into the 100 metre-high rockface of an abandoned water-filled quarry outside Shanghai. A huge waterfall will pour down from the roof of the 19-storey hotel complex, which will have part of its body built into the cave and two of its floors submerged beneath the [...]
Dubai Holding has revealed ambitious plans to build the first temperature-controlled pedestrian city in Dubai, along Sheikh Zayed Road. UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum launched the huge development, which will occupy a total area of 48mn ft2 and include the world’s largest shopping [...]
The Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation has today announced plans to redevelop a 125,000sqm park in the heart of Abu Dhabi, and will offer a sneak preview to thousands of visitors tomorrow (April 22) at Cityscape Abu Dhabi, the UAE Capital’s premier real estate investment and development exhibition. Al Fayah Park will be located [...]
Construction of what will become the next world’s tallest building is set to begin end of April 2014 in Saudi Arabia. Once finished, the Kingdom Tower will stand a staggering 1km (3280 feet) high - four times taller than The Shard and over 500 feet taller than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the current record holder. [...]
