Lotte Super Tower / KPF

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, the international architecture firm headquartered in New York, announced it has completed the conceptual design for Lotte Super Tower 123 in Seoul, South Korea. The 555-meter (1,821 feet), 123-story tower, when completed in 2014, will be the tallest building in Asia and the world’s second tallest after the Burj Dubai.

from Arch Daily by Sebastian J

A Warm Slice and Foster's

Norman Fosters new design for Sperone/Westwater gallery near the New Museum, NYC. NYT

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Zamet Centre / 3LHD

Situated in Rijeka’s quarter Zamet, the new Zamet Centre in complete size of 16830 m2 hosts various facilities: sports hall with max 2380 seats, local community offices, library, 13 retail and service spaces and a garage with 250 parking spaces. One third of the sports hall’s volume is cut in the ground, and the rest of the Centre is fully fitted into the surrounding landscape. The building’s main architectural element are ribbon-like linear stripes stretching over the site in a north-south direction, functioning at the same time as an architectural design element of the object and as a zoning element which forms a public square and a link between the park on the north and school and B. Vidas street on the south.

© Domagoj Blazevic
from Arch Daily by David Basulto

+Rolf: Scandic Stockholm

The area around Vasagatan is one of Stockholm's most expansive and exciting, with its central location and numerous ongoing development projects. And this is where the city's big new hotel – Scandic Stockholm – will be built. The hotel will have over 400 rooms, meeting facilities, a restaurant and a large hotel bar/lounge that is open to everyone. The new hotel is building on classic historical roots. The street became Vasagatan during Stockholm's major renaming project of 1885, and the building is 130 years old. Scandic Stockholm will, however, have its own story, design and identity, based on the special and inspirational surroundings.

Visualization: Tenjin Visual
www.megaronark.se
www.scandic.se

International Architecture Awards Honor Nearly One Hundred Projects from Around the Globe

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. and co-presented by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, announced ninety-seven (97) new distinguished projects and urban schemes selected in this year’s prestigious International Architecture Awards program for 2009.

Image: Auditorium and convention centre aragón expo 2008; Zaragoza, Spain.
Architects: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, SLP

from Bustler.net News by Vanilla Hustler

Team Germany Wins Solar Decathlon…Again

The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that ‘Team Germany’ from the Technische Universität Darmstadt has won the 2009 Solar Decathlon with their project surPLUShome. This is the second time in a row that a team from TU Darmstadt wins this international contest after already snatching the title in Solar Decathlon’s last edition in 2007.

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Multi-tenant Project in Fukuyama

UID Architects projected a multi-tenant building to enclose a dental clinic, an beauty salon and UID’s architectural office. The building, located in a long and narrow plot surrounded on all three sides by neighboring houses, has a cedar-clad plywood shell that neatly encloses the steel structure. The dental clinic is located on the first floor while the beauty salon and the architectural office are on the send floor. Truly a mixed-program regarding the businesses in the multi-tenant building.

from CoolBoom by Sylvia

Slit Court by EASTERN Design Office

Japanese architects EASTERN design office have completed a five-storey residential project in Sumizome, Kyoto, Japan. (more…)

from Dezeen by Jasmin Gunkar