Revolutionary Development for Turkey / RMJM

Internationally recognized practice RMJM Architects have recently announced their groundbreaking $1 billon mixed-use complex for the Atasehir district, the growing residential and business area of Istanbul, Turkey. RMJM’s complex will allow the new business center to flourish by serving 20,000 people and providing for a variety of their needs. The project will be revolutionary for Turkey as it will become the country’s first LEED-certified mixed-use development upon its 2011 completion date.

AIA Selects Three Projects for National Healthcare Design Awards

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) have selected the recipients of the AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program. The AIA Healthcare Awards program showcases the best of healthcare building design and healthcare design-oriented research. Projects exhibit conceptual strengths that solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns as well as the requisite functional and sustainability concerns of a hospital.

from Bustler.net News by Vanilla Hustler

ShowCase: City of Culture of Galicia

As construction continues on the six-building City of Culture of Galicia, the first completed building, the Galician National Archive, opened to employees this spring. The Archive is the southernmost building in the complex and, at 86,000 square feet, one of the smallest. Its undulating form and that of all of the buildings evolved from the layering of three sets of information on the hilltop site. First, the plan of the medieval center of Santiago de Compostela, a historic, religious pilgrimage city, was placed on the site.

Skysong at ASU Campus / FTL Design Engineering Studio

Located at the intersection of Scottsdale and McDowell Road, SkySong is a mixed-use project consisting of 1.2 million square feet of office, research and retail space, and a hotel /conference center at full build-out. In addition to the commercial space, SkySong will include multi-family residential units. Anchored by the iconic SkySong shade structure, it is built around a densely landscaped grand boulevard lined by ground-floor shops and restaurants with offices above. SkySong will serve the needs of businesses, research and technology industry and academia while building vital networks between university innovations, regional progress and the global technology industry.

from Arch Daily by Nico Saieh

SPF architects: national music centre, calgary

american firm SPF architects recently presented their design concept for the cantos national music centre project in calgary. the project, which involves building a music centre in and around the shell of calgary’s oldest blues bar is seen by many as one of the country’s most ambitious and important urban-design projects, and is located in the heart of one of calgary’s oldest neighborhoods. the centre will be part museum, part education and outreach facility, and part performance space, incorporating genres ranging from pop and country to ancient music and contemporary composition.

from Designboom - Weblog

Cardiff Bay by Light Bureau

Light Bureau from London sent us their project Cardiff Bay. The parking garage buildings tend to leave us with bland facades. Cardiff Bay project shows us how bland can quickly become blank canvas for a innovative lighting design.

from ENLIGHTER.ORG by Lučka Slatner

Kahn's Phillips Exeter academy library

CG Shortfilm by Alex Roman about Louis Kahn's Phillips Exeter Academy Library.
Footage from "The Third & The Seventh" project for illustrating Mundos Digitales 2009 conference. Main theme soundtrack it's The Divine Comedy's "Laika's Theme" from "Absent Friends" album.

Remota hotel, Germán del Sol

Here is a photo of the Remota Hotel in Patagonia, Torres del Paine, Puerto Natales-Chile by Germán del Sol. Photographs are by #freelance.

from A Daily Dose of Architecture by John