ABSOLUTE TOWERS

Client: Fernbrook Homes/Cityzen Development GroupStatus: First prize in international competition. Under ConstructionLocation: Mississauga, nr Toronto, CanadaType: Residential ApartmentsBuilding Area: Phase 4: 45,000 sqm; Phase 5: 40,000 sqmBuilding Height: Phase 4: 56 stories/170 m; Phase 5: 50 stories/150 mDirectors in Charge: Ma Yansong, Yosuke Hayano, Dang QunDesign Team: Shen Jun, Robert Groessinger, Florian Pucher,...

English Mosque Design : text from Makespacearchitects

Muslims are the fastest growing population in Britain, and mosque building has expanded exponentially over the last two decades to reflect this this trend. With debate raging on how Muslims position themselves in modern Britain, we think the buildings they build can positively contribute to an emerging and confident British Islamic culture.Makespacearchitects have been working on a series of mosque designs in and around...

FLUID - AMPHIBIAN PAVILION YEOSU KOREA - WORLD EXPO 2012

The pavilion is prototypical architecture, drawing from the multidisciplinary source of product design- urban planning-architecture and naval design. The pavilion is resolved as a vessel - a floating exhibition space that can be sailed to other cities. It's an evolution of architecture- a futuristic adaptable living building that can adapt to suit an unknowable future. Its ingenuity will encourage multidisciplinary problem...

Niu Jie Mosque, Beijing

Built in 995, the Niu Jie Mosque is Beijing's largest and oldest mosque and the spiritual center for the city's estimated 200,000 Muslims.HistoryThe mosque was constructed by two Arabs in 995. Throughout the Yuan, Ming and Qing periods (13th-19th C), it underwent several alterations and since 1949 it has been repeatedly restored.What to SeeNiu Jie (Ox Street) is a cramped road running north-south in the Muslim Quarter,...

Blue Mosque, Istanbul

The cascading domes and six slender minarets of the Sultanahmet Mosque (better known as the "Blue Mosque") dominate the skyline of Istanbul. In the 17th century, Sultan Ahmet I wished to build an Islamic place of worship that would be even better than the Hagia Sophia, and the mosque named for him is the result. The two great architectural achievements now stand next to each other in Istanbul's main square, and it is...

'Bill-ding' in Lithuania

One of the next landmarks in Lithuania is already turning heads. Nearly complete, the new building has an aluminium-and-glass façade that looks like a Lithuanian bank note."Special will be the look of the building, the nice picture on the façade," says Eimantas Lenciauskas of Savoja UAB. The investors wanted something special and inspiring. The builders had an idea and considered the possibilities with suppliers. The...

Landscape Architecture

Landscape architecture is a the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve socio-behavioural, environmental, and/or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and processes in the landscape, and the careful design of interventions that will interact with these conditions and processes to produce the desired outcome. The scope of the profession...

Critical Regionalism

Critical regionalism approach to architecture that strives to counter the placelessness and lack of meaning in Modern Architecture by using contextual forces to give a sense of place and meaning. The term critical regionalism was first used by Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre and later more famously by Kenneth Frampton.Frampton put forth his views in "Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six points for an architecture...

Deconstructivism

Deconstructivism in architecture, also called deconstruction, is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s. It is characterized by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's surface or skin, non-rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and dislocate some of the elements of architecture, such as structure and envelope. The finished visual appearance of buildings...

3deluxe’s Leonardo Glass Cube Communicates a brand through the building

Leonardo Glass Cube is the first permanent building implemented by 3deluxe. On the premises of the glazing company Glaskoch, the Leonardo Glass Cube conveys to guests and the staff alike the company’s philosophy and visions in an inspiring manner across a total area of 2,900 sq m. The glass façade of the building represents the passage to a hyper-naturalistic world with heightened aesthetic appeal. The graphically illustrated...

Interior Design

Interior design is a multi-faceted profession in which creative and technical solutions are applied within a structure to achieve a built interior environment. These solutions are functional, enhance the quality of life and culture of the occupants, and are aesthetically attractive. Designs are created in response to and coordinated with code and regulatory requirements, and encourage the principles of environmental...

Vitruvius

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born c. 80–70 BC, died after c. 15 BC) was a Roman writer, architect and engineer (possibly praefectus fabrum during military service or praefect architectus armamentarius of the apparitor status group), active in the 1st century BC. By his own description Vitruvius served as a Ballista (artilleryman), the third class of arms in the military offices. He likely served as chief of the ballista...

Architecture and Lighting Culture

At the start of the 21st century, architecture is increasingly acquiring a greater role and receiving more attention when it is a matter of presenting corporate values and public prestige. Modern architecture and up-todate design are values which can set buildings, rooms and companies and organisations associated with them apart from the mainstream.Architecture and the lighting design associated with it Architectural...

INTRODUCTION to ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

Muhammad (c. 570 -632) born and brought up in Makka (Mecca), an ancient city in Arabia, heard God's message for the first time around 610 AD. That is the birth of the faith of Islam. Since then, Muhammad as a prophet gradually got frequent revelations from God and told them to his followers, so that those messages were compiled posthumously into the holy book for Islam, the "Qur'an" (Koran).God is one and all men are...