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Project: DART Transit Hub
Author: Substance
Location: Iowa, U.S.A.
Graphics: Jonathan Clayton/Archigraphica

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Project: Kumiki Tower
Architect: Graft Architectes
Lars Krückeberg
Thomas Willemeit
Wolfram Putz
Gregor Hoheisel
M. Alejandra Lillo
Collaborator: Brad Pitt
Location: Tokio, Japan
Size: 88,643 sq mt
Project: 2006

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Flying kites on a warm sunny day is a favorite activity for children all across the world. At the World Expo Shanghai next year, those sweet childhood memories can be recalled at the Mexico Pavilion. People will see no building, but a 4,000-square-meter area covered in grass with hundreds of colorful Mexican kites flying in the sky.

Visitors can read a book, have a picnic or simply relax on the grass under the shade of the kites. They can also buy a traditional Mexican-style kite from the pavilion and fly it to recall the fun of their childhoods. You can even learn how to make a unique Mexican kite as the souvenir.

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Architects: Single Speed Design
Principals in Charge: Jinhee Park AIA, John Hong AIA/LEED
Project team: Brett Albert, Frederick Peter Ortner, Matt Allen, Caroline Lang, Clara Wong, Bao Wei
Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
Plot: 92
Structural Engineer: Paul Kassabian, SGH Inc.
Design year: 2008
Construction year: 2009-2010
Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China
Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China
Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox

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Eight teams were recognized as finalists of the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom. Finalists submitted designs ranging from an outdoor classroom for children in inner-city Chicago, learning spaces for the children of salt pan workers in India, safe spaces for youth in Bogota, Colombia, a bamboo classroom in the Himalayan mountains.

The 2009 Open Architecture Challenge was hosted by Architecture for Humanity and principal partner Orient Global in collaboration with a consortium of other partners around the world. This truly global initiative invited the architecture, design and engineering community to collaborate directly with students and teachers to rethink the classroom of the future. Designers entering the competition were given a simple mandate: collaborate with real students in real schools in their community to develop real solutions.

More than 1,000 design teams from 65 countries registered for the competition. Over a four-month submission period hundreds of ideas were generated around the world.

Each submission was rated on feasibility, sustainability, innovation in learning and overall design quality by a team of interdisciplinary online jurors. After three rounds of reviews, more than 400 designs were narrowed to a shortlist of 52. On July 2nd, 2009, an international panel of jurors reviewed the designs at the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival and selected eight entries as finalists for the competition. In September, one of these teams will be awarded US$ 5,000 and the selected partner school will receive up to US$50,000 to realize their design.
Project descriptions and images of the eight finalists after the break.

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Project: Dance Palace
UNStudio: Ben van Berkel with Christian Veddeler, Wouter de Jonge and Jan Schellhoff and Kyle Miller, Maud van Hees, Hans-Peter Nuenning, Arnd Willert, Nanang Santoso, Imola Berczi, Tade Godbersen, Patrik Noome
Theatre consultant: theateradvies bv, Amsterdam Engineering: ARUP
Client:  “Petersburg City”
Location: St. Petersburg, Russia
Building surface: 21,000 m2
Building height: 28 m
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Project: Raffles City Hangzhou
UNStudio – Concept Design and Schematic Design: Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos, Astrid Piber with Hannes Pfau, Markus van Aalderen
Team: Juliane Maier, Marc Salemink, Shu Yan Chan and Andreas Bogenschuetz, Marina Bozukova, Brendon Carlin, Miklos Deri, Gary Freedman, Juergen Heinzel, Alexander Hugo, Abhijit Kapade, Marcin Koltunski, Fernie Lai, James Leng, Peter Moerland, Rudi Nieveen, Hans-Peter Nuenning, Hyunil Oh, Yi Cheng Pan, Steffen Riegas, Rikjan Scholten, Ioana Sulea, Christian Veddeler, Luming Wang, Zhenfei Wang, Rein Werkhoven, Georg Willheim
Advisors – LDI: China United Engineering Corporation, Hangzhou SMEP, Fire, LEED: Arup
Facade: Meinhardt Façade Technology, Hong Kong Transport: MVA, Hong Kong
Client: CapitaLand
Location: Hangzhou, China
Building surface: 389,489 m2
Building site: 40,355m2
Programme: Mixed-use, incorporating commercial buildings: Class A office buildings, five-star hotels and high end residential buildings.
Status: Planned realisation 2012

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After almost 12 years in the boards dutch architects Office for Metropolitan Architecture, OMA, have announced the start of construction on “De Rotterdam” a complex of three stacked towers with a total height of 150m, a gross floor area of 160,000m2, and mixed use program (offices, apartments, hotel, conference facilities, gym, shops, restaurants) with an investment of €340m De Rotterdam will be the biggest building in the Netherlands. Completion is expected in 2013
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Spaceport America Conceptual Images URS/Foster + Partners

Spaceport America began its construction last Friday 19th June,  in New Mexico. Being the first spaceport worldwide and designed by Foster + Partners and URS Corporation, the complex will host commercial operations by private space travel companies.

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Imperial War Museum North (IWMN) has selected Topotek 1 as the design team to develope the external areas of the museum in Trafford. This decision was based because after reviewing the scheme proposed by Topotek 1 which complements the Libeskind’s building.

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Zaha Hadid has been selected to design the Cairo Expo City, together with multidisciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold after a two phase comptetition. This project follows the recently announced Stone Towers in Cairo, Egypt. Works will begin in October this year to clear the site.

The project’s fluid forms are inspired in the topography of the Nile Valley, and is located between the city centre and the airport.

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Poland has unveiled the architectural design for its national pavilion in World Expo Shanghai 2010, presenting a geometrical structure covered with paper-cutting pattern. The design of the 3,000-square-meter Poland Pavilion is the winning entry chosen from 20 candidates in the designing competition and was designed by Arch. Marcin Mostafa, Arch. Natalia Paszkowska and Arch. Wojciech Kakowski.

More images and full description after the break.

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Project: Stone Towers
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Client: Rooya Group
Structural Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor
Gross Building Area: 525,000 m2
Site Area: 170,000 m2

Zaha Hadid Architects have design a new project for the Rooya Group in Cairo, Egypt. The Stone Towers will offer retail, office, luxury hotel and apartments.

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D-Project – Villa in Progress
Design Development Phase, 2009
Location: Lebanon, New Naccache
Type: Residential
Project Total Area: 1.700sqm
Type: Residential
Architects in Charge: Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS
Architect: Youssef Tohme
Project Architect: Rani Boustani
Collaborate Architects: Anastasia Elrouss, Joanne Hennaoui
Consultant Architects: Christophe Hurgon

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Plans for a brand new Daniel Libeskind designed high-rise project in downtown Los Angeles have recently been approved by the Los Angeles Planning Commission.  The move – coupled with a second major high-rise in the area by AC Martin Partners – could signal a new optimism for developers with major city projects to push their plans through despite the downturn.

The 43-story Libeskind Tower, situated at 1340 South Figueroa Street, is a 273-unit building to include parking, restaurants and a spa.  CA Human Technologies, a joint venture of two Korean firms, is developing the tower.

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