In Progress: Arena Castelão The Fares Cândido Lopes new building, the headquarters of Ceará Department of Sports and the Architecture and Engineering Department, is part of the first phase of the Castelão Arena project. The complex, located in Fortaleza – State of Ceará, represents the northeast of the country as one of the host cities that will receive the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™. Recently ...
Bao’an Airport Terminal / Massimiliano Fuksas Shenzhen is one of the most important industrial locations as well as a very popular tourist destination in China. The fast developing city is located in the south of the Guangdong Province, neighbouring the Pearl River delta and Hong Kong. Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport is the fourth largest following Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou in China. In ...
Ordos Art and City Museum by MAD Architects Construction of the MAD architectural firm designed Ordos Museum recently completed in fall 2011. Extraterrestrial yet organic, the museum appears landed in the desert from another world or to have existed for millennia. The result is timeless architecture in a modern city of ruins. Location: ordos, china Typology: museum Site area: 27,760 ...
Foster + Partners win competition to design Ourense AVE Station Along with engineers G.O.C. and Cabanelas Castelo Architects, Foster + Partners have won an international competition to design a new high-speed rail station in the city of Ourense in Galicia, located in northwestern Spain. The winning proposal integrates transport infrastructure with a new urban park, providing a large public space that ...
BIG’s Proposal for St Petersburg Pier Mimics Wave Motion As one of three shortlisted proposals for the St. Petersburg Pier International Design Competition, the Wave tries to connect the water and the city of Petersburg by emphasizing the possibility of achieving unity through physical contact. Its undulating form creates a narrative that merges the pier structure with the entire bay area. BIG’s ...