Infrastructure

Twin towers in Kuwait City reference vernacular Arabic architecture

August 8, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture firm Gensler has completed an office, and hotel with interiors by Yabu Pushelberg, in Kuwait City with facades that recall traditional Arabic screens. The building comprises two towers connected by a podium topped with a roof terrace. One tower contains a new headquarters for local retail giant Alshaya, while the other is occupied by a Four

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Pelli Clarke Pelli’s Salesforce Transit Center opens in San Francisco

August 7, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects’ vast transit hub in downtown San Francisco will eventually connect 11 regional, state and national public transport modes, and is topped with a public park. The Salesforce Transit Center encompasses 1.5 million square feet (140,000 square metres), stretching five blocks parallel to Mission Street in the heart of the city. Positioned

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Henning Larsen builds town hall that bridges a river on the Faroe Islands

August 3, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The Eysturkommuna Town Hall, designed by Scandinavian firm Henning Larsen, bridges across a river to physically and symbolically connect two formerly separate municipalities on the Faroe Islands. Designed to serve the municipality of Eystur, the town hall is located in the small town of Nordragota on the eastern coast of the Faroe Islands – a self governing archipelago in the North

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Pedro Geraldes creates concrete control centre overlooking Portuguese dam

July 31, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

A gabled concrete shell that references local vernacular buildings forms a protective surface enclosing this control building at a hydroelectric station in central Portugal. Architect Pedro Geraldes designed the control and observation facility for global energy company EDP, at its site overlooking the Vouga River near the village of Ermida. The building’s main purpose is

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Amsterdam opens new metro line with seven stations by Benthem Crouwel Architects

July 26, 2018 India Block 0

Benthem Crouwel Architects has designed seven new metro stations for the new Noord/Zuidlijn line through Amsterdam, which opened this week. Amsterdammers and tourists alike can now traverse the six mile north-south route through the city in just 15 minutes, 22 years after the project began. Dutch architecture firm Benthem Crouwel Architects has designed seven stations

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Joseph Mercer suggests creating more “feral” London green belt

July 23, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Royal College of Art graduate Joseph Mercer has proposed building Netherlands-style greenhouses on London’s green belt to intensify food production and allow farmland to be returned to a wilder natural state. Mercer envisions building a series of greenhouses on the Metropolitan Green Belt, a band of countryside that runs around London to control urban growth. As

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David Chipperfield Architects completes pink visitor centre and chapel at Inagawa Cemetery

July 18, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

A pink pigmented concrete building designed by David Chipperfield’s studio for a cemetery in the Japanese town of Inagawa has been captured in photographs by Edmund Sumner. Inagawa Cemetery is situated on a hillside in the Hokusetsu Mountain Range of the Hyogo prefecture, around 25 miles north of Osaka. David Chipperfield Architects developed the visitor and

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Miami parking facility Museum Garage combines several exterior designs

July 5, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Five architecture studios have contributed facades to this parking garage in Miami Design District, resulting in a mash-up of bold eclectic styles. The seven-storey cast-concrete building, known as Museum Garage, was designed and engineered by Miami studio Tim Haahs with project manager Javier Fernandez. It is located at the intersection of NE First Avenue and NE

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JBAD repurposes shipping container as MicroTower parking attendant booth

June 25, 2018 James Brillon 0

This bright red tower in Columbus, Ohio, is constructed from a shipping container turned vertically and serves as a booth for a parking attendant. Designed by local firm Jonathan Barnes Architecture and Design (JBAD), the 40-foot-tall (12-metre) tower is intended to act as a landmark for an overlooked part of the city’s downtown area. “This

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UNStudio reveals designs for Amsterdam cable car

June 21, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

Dutch firm UNStudio has revealed designs for a 1,500 metre-long cable car across the across the river IJ in Amsterdam. The cable car would connect the growing residential areas of Amsterdam-West and Amsterdam-Noord in under five minutes. Commissioned by the IJbaan Foundation – a grassroots citizen initiative led by Bas Dekker and Willem Wessels – the new connection is intended to

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