Thursday, 21 February 2013

Place de L'Hotel de Ville (City Hall), Paris !!!


The Gold Coast (near Brisbane), Queensland, Australia !!!


Casares, Andaluzia, Spain. (Los Pueblos Blancos de Andaluzia - the White Villages of Andaluzia) !!!


UK architects Foster + Partners have been appointed to masterplan the Slussen waterfront in central Stockholm, Sweden !!!


Extreme cantilever alert! A four-storey block with a mirrored underside juts out from the top of a Berlin hotel, 25 metres above the ground.


Iinternational firm SWA Group has been selected to redesign Futian District in Shenzhen, China - an area that's larger than Manhattan !!!


Zaha Hadid Architects has designed a swirling complex of apartments, offices and leisure facilities on the abandoned site of an old textile factory in Belgrade, Serbia !!!


MVRDV-Jerde-Arup reveal 360.000m2 green mix use project in Jakarta, Indonesia !!!


Californian firm amphibianArc was inspired by images of spacecrafts to come up with two different skyscraper proposals for the headquarters of a Chinese machinery company in Changsha !!!


London architects Grimshaw and engineers Arup have unveiled this design for an offshore wind turbine !!!


NL Architects have designed a conceptual bridge for the Hong Kong border, featuring roads that would loop over each other to allow for the fact that traffic must drive on the left in Hong Kong but on the right in China. Awesome :)


SO True !!!


Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Grozavesti Bridge !!!


Challenge


Grand Lisboa ..Macau, China !!!


Foster + Partners have unveiled designs for an new international airport in Kuwait.Each terminal will have three symmetrical wings, with each facade spanning 1.2 kilometers.The airport will accommodate 13 million passengers a year, with the possibility to expand for 50 million passengers.


Asymptote Architecture - Kaohsiung Port Terminal !!! The new Kaohsiung Marine Gateway Terminal designed by Asymptote is a new state of the art transportation interchange, an urban destination with both terminal and public facilities including exhibition and event spaces for the people of Kaohsiung as well as for national and international visitors. The project transforms the site from its industrial roots into a dynamic urban hub and a global gateway that bring a powerful and electric experience to the city 24 hours a day. Project Data :- Architects: Asymptote Architecture and Artech Architects Location: Kaohsiung , Taiwan Project Team: Asymptote Architecture – Hani Rashid & Lise Anne Couture, Artech Architects – Kris Yao Structural Engineering: Knippers Helbig Environmental Engineering: Transsolar Cruise Consultant: Parsons Brinckerhoff Fire, Electrical & Plumbing: Heng Kai Traffic Engineering: Everest Project Area: 40,000 sqm Client: Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau Competition: Kaohsiung Port Terminal 2010.


Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Aggregate, Types of aggregates:- Aggregate is a granular material, such as sand, gravel, crushed stone, crushed hydraulic-cement concrete, or iron blast-furnace slag, used with a hydraulic cementing medium to produce either concrete or mortar. Aggregate is used Coarse Aggregate:- Those particles that are predominantly retained on the 4.75 mm (No. 4) sieve, are called COARSE AGGREGATES. Fine Aggregate:- Those particles passing the 9.5 mm (3/8 in.) sieve, almost entirely passing the 4.75 mm (No. 4) sieve, and predominantly retained on the 75 µm (No. 200) sieve are called FINE AGGREGATES.


Various Designs Of Pavers !!!


Curving House -This house beside a mountain in South Korea has a curved grey-brick facade that its architects compare to the body of a fish.


Beautiful photos of Great Mosque in Djenne !!!


One building is the inverse of another at this pair of museums that architect Steven Holl has designed for a new city quarter of Tianjin, China.The Ecology and Planning Museums will be located within Tianjin Eco-City, a new city quarter under construction on China's east coast that is set to accommodate at least 350,000 inhabitants.Steven Holl Architects conceived the Planning Museum as a large cuboidal building with a series of blob-shaped voids piercing its volume, while the neighbouring Ecology Museum will have a non-linear form that copies the shape of these openings.


Taste architectural fare - Chips project in Manchester !!!


Beautiful Mosque In Iraq :) SubhanAllah :)


Team Work !!!


Architecture firm SOM has proposed adding a floating observation deck that slides up and down the sides of two new skyscrapers .The moving deck is one of several public realm strategies that the firm is promoting for the 100-year-old station, following an invitation from the Municipal Art Society of New York to re-think the spaces in and around the building.SOM suggests that the hovering deck would improve the quality of the public space around the building by offering an "iconic landmark" with a 360-degree panorama of the city skyline."Throughout the history of New York City, urban growth has been matched by grand civic gestures," said SOM partner Roger Duffy.


Amsterdam architects UNStudio have designed a new international airport for Kutaisi, Georgia.The airport will serve the growing number of tourists to the city, as well as politicians and diplomats visiting the country’s parliament, which is moving from the capital Tbilisi to Kutaisi next year.The terminal will include three departure gates, as well as a departure lounge with a large private garden.


Bridge in Abu Dhabi by Zaha Hadid Architects-Construction of the 842 metre-long bridge between Abu Dhabi Island and the mainland completed earlier this year.The structure comprises several arching waves of reinforced concrete, which support a four-lane highway. PROGRAM: 2 ways four lane highway bridge to Abu Dhabi island CLIENT: Abu Dhabi Municipality ARCHITECT: Zaha Hadid Architects Design: Zaha Hadid Project Architect: Graham Modlen Project Team: Garin O'Aivazian, Zahira Nazer, Christos Passas, Sara Klomps, Steve Power Project Engineer: Joe Barr, Mike King, Mike Davies Highpoint Rendel (Abu Dhabi, UAE) CONSULTANTS: Structure: Rendel Palmer Tritton (London, UK) Lighting: Hollands Licht (Amsterdam, Netherlands) DIMENSIONS: 842m long, 64m high, 61m wide MATERIALS: Piers, Decking: Reinforced Concrete Arches: Steel


Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, China !!!


Sesquicentennial Bridge, A stunning structure in Teresina, Brazil !!!