New Schools in United Arab Emirates

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Public health services high technologies

Company RTKL — the international architectural company which is engaged in designing of buildings and constructions — in the end of this year begins erection of an innovative hospital complex by the area of 361,000 m. The complex will serve simultaneously more than 2200 patients. Project cost: 2,82 billion yuans (or 304 million euro). The control and management of building will be carried out by the best experts RTKL from office in Los Angeles.

Innovative embodiment

Company RTKL has been chosen as the contractor of the project as a result of competition in which 30 architectural firms participated. Desire of the customer — create a building which embodies: the innovative, progressive and ecological concept of the health centre.Read more »

Design kilometre

The given architectural decision for Hua Qiang Bei Road in the Chinese city of Shenzhen command WORKac has offered. The design project corresponds to growing commercial value and character of territory — this tendency has led to a problem of transport congestion and stoppers. Architects have suggested to make a series of strategic crossings of road.

5 Exclusive Lanterns

The project consists from “5 conceptual lanterns”, each of which has the function. Lanterns are visible from apart — by the way, during day heat they create a shade.

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Digital facade for Medialab Prado

The digital facade on the area of Songs (Plaza de las Letras) is a result of investments of city administration of Madrid; now media laboratory Prado had a possibility to show to the public results of own researches of art, to combine them with requirements of a wide audience and the advanced technologies.

The given artless invention advances very important values and skills: social responsibility, an information transfer, social interaction.

Medialab Prado — Madrid

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The retrocomputer

SchultzeWORKS, the design group of the USA, for creation of other image of the personal computer used nostalgia: in new bright design we see forms of the TV of 50th years.

Retro Philco PC

The newcomer old Philco PC also uses design elements of "ancient" typewriters. Now authors of object search for the manufacturers interested in introduction of given design.

Authors consider, that they managed to reconsider considerably an image of the personal computer. The project has been created within the limits of specialized competition.

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In the supermarket centre there was a green emptiness

Architects from LAVA have thought up installation in shopping centre in Sydney. The creation has been named Green Void.

Green sculpture in Sydney

Really green sculpture in height of 20 metres also it is powerful 40 kilogrammes consists of the easy fabric tense on an aluminium basis.

Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck from LAVA, Laboratory for Visionary Architecture have thought up installation specially for five-floor shopping centre. The design has been developed by means of digital technologies.

On “Media Wall” it is placed 11 monitors showing process of creation, sculpture installations, and also last international works LAVA.

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The house-tree by Tatiana Bilbao

Mexican architectural company Tatiana Bilbao has created the design project of a university building. The author has inspired on project creation — an ordinary tree.

Biological Penates

The building has received the name “Biotechnological Park Building”. The six-storied structure will shelter researchers and experimenters in the field of the new technologies applied in agriculture.

The project will take places on 8,000 sq.m. of a campus of the largest private university in Mexico (Tecnológico de Monterrey) in the city of Culiacan.Read more »

Hotel for visitors from the future

In cooperation with Fraunhofer IAO from Stuttgart, architects from bureau LAVA have created design of a room of hotel of the future which became a part of the research project.

In a room the special illumination co-operating with biorhythms of the person, and a window with the projected image is equipped. Architects describe a room as the demonstration project which investigates interaction between architecture, technology and a human body.

Future Hotel enters into project IAO Inhaus2, which main accent — to correspond to expectations and requirements of visitors, by means of use of technologies of tomorrow. Mixing borders between technologies and an interior, in design of a room last innovations in the field of media both visual communications, and the prototypes of products created by known manufacturers are shown.

Technologies function on a background, imperceptibly, giving possibility personally to supervise media, light, a climate. In a room there is a bed with active comfort, an intellectual mirror, the huge display-window, light adapting for biorhythms of the person.

The soft transitions, the accented individual corners create special atmosphere in a room, the external form of "capsule" becomes the interface showing interaction of the person and technologies, soft and firm materials, balance between functionality.

Applying methods of parametrical design and semi-automatic technologies, architects from LAVA have created realistic design the concept of the house of the future.

Exclusive Aston Martin One-77

Aston Martin prepares new model, One-77 — only seventy seven in manufacture.

Hundred buyers have already left the deposit at a rate of 200 000 pounds sterling "as a deposit". The car in cost of 1,200,000 pounds sterling has subdued them in absentia, even before the occurrence.

At first, all admirers of mark teased the planned display of a novelty on Paris Auto Show, but there have slightly opened only some parts of model.

In model One-77 high technologies and outstanding design are combined. Why 77? “Figure 75 seems too obvious and normal”, — main designer Aston Martin Marek Reichman speaks. — “And 77 are two happy the seven”.

The stadium has not sustained loading

Frequently modern architectural constructions grasp spirit the adaptability to manufacture, a flight of fancy and volumes, lines and forms, in height — and force to reflect on safety. In Malaysia not completed stadium has fallen, the blessing, prior to the beginning of large competitions. To construction only one year recently was executed.

Soon here carrying out of open games, analogue of a university game which involve usually thousand spectators and sportsmen has been planned. At a collapse of 80 metres of a roof was not lost any person — however this case became an occasion to a large quantity of trials. The Ministry of Labour of Malaysia will be seriously engaged in incident investigation.

The collapse damage has made 25 million dollars. Roof reorganization will charge to the Korean builder. The stadium will be closed before end of reconstruction works.

The Gore Hill Park (Sydney)

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Badgers View Farm

Building of unique apartment house Badgers View Farm in Chilterns (England) has begun.

Architects Lewis and Hickey have designed this house in 400 sq.m. representing modern displays and features. This project is extremely harmoniously entered in a reality, as though supplementing a landscape.

The matter is that district Chilterns are cretaceous calcareous breeds making the way through soil. So the form and appearance of this house are ideally combined with district.

Architects explain, what exactly such rocks acting from the earth which lean against each other, and have inspired them on creation of such project.

The terrace located on a roof and almost entirely glazed facades, allow to enjoy surrounding landscape and to feel a unification with the nature.

New sight at the lighting equipment for exhibition stands

One more example of creative commonwealth, in a literal sense — has begun to shine in a design field.

This time efforts on creation of new surprising objects have united Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and lighting brand Reggiani. Together they have developed a series of specialised lamps for registration of exhibition stands.Read more »

2008 Cityscape (Dubai)

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UFO-House by Solaleya Domes

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