SAMOO Wins Competition for Flagship Korean Cultural Center in New York City

SAMOO Architecture PC, the New York studio of SAMOO Architects and Engineers based in Seoul, Korea, announced today that it has won an international competition for the design of The New York Korea Center, a new home for the Korean Cultural Service in New York. The eight-story, 33,000 square foot facility will offer spaces for exhibitions, performances, lectures, and administration. Korea House will be located on East 32nd Street, extending the vibrancy of Manhattan’s Korea Town to the Murray Hill neighborhood.

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Vivienda Social en Izola / Ofis Architects

This project won for 2 blocks of apartments in a contest organized by the Housing Fund of Slovenia, which is a government program that provides low-cost apartments to young families. The winning proposal was to address the issue in a rational, functional, economically viable, but above all for the cost versus the total area and flexibility.The blocks are located on a hill overlooking the bay of Izola, the site of each block is 60 x 28 meters.

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zaha hadid architects: cairo expo city

zaha hadid architects has been awarded first prize in the cairo expo city competition
together with global engineering consultancy buro happold.

the winning design for cairo expo city is a 450,000 square metre, state of the art city for exhibitions and conferences, located between the centre of cairo and the city’s airport. the project comprises a major international exhibition and conference centre with business hotel. a further office tower and a shopping centre are also proposed.

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Plans for a post-Kyoto metropolis revealed

The official release of the results from Le Grand Pari(s) competition.
Preface by President Sarkozy. PDF

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Za’abeel Park Observation Tower / XTEN Architecture

XTEN Architecture shares their entry to the ThyssenKrupp elevator competition in Dubai. The observation tower is located in a cultural park just off axis from the main skyscraper boulevard in Dubai, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Road.

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petra architects: 'blossoming dubai'

Greek firm petra architects have designed 'blossoming dubai' for their proposal for
the zaabeel park tall emblem structure competition. They based their design on the form of a blossoming flower.

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Tall emblem structure in Dubai.

Architect: ARCHICLUB, France

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(Non)-Winners Announced for ThyssenKrupp Elevator Architecture Award 2008-2009

Geotube by Faulders Studio with Bios Design Collective

The winners were recently announced for the ThyssenKrupp Elevator Award 2008-09, and the results have proven to be quite controversial.

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Development of Blåsenhus in Uppsala

The work on the basis of a detailed plan for the settlement of Blåsenhus northeastern part has started. As part of that process, Akademiska Hus and Uppsala University invited four Nordic architectural offices to sketch ideas of how it could be designed.

Image: Semrén + Månsson's competition entry, illustration by Tenjin Visual.

Singapore’s Stunning Digital Cloud Skyscraper

This incredible pixelated skyscraper by Singapore-based Design Act was a finalist in a competition to design a pavilion for the World Expo 2010. Entitled “My Dream, Our Vision”, the project uses permutated cubes to generate a spectacular modular sculpture that perfectly encapsulates the spirit of Singapore as an efficient, dynamic, cosmopolitan, and forward-looking nation.

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