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Zaha Hadid Architects completes tree trunk-inspired Pierres Vives Building in Montpellier
This coming Thursday, Zaha Hadid's latest project in France will be inaugurated. The Pierres Vives Building in Montpellier, Southern France is a bold new addition to the landscape, bringing together three previously separate branches of the Herault regional government. Hadid has completed a handful of projects in France, the first being the surprisingly subtle Hoenheim-Nord Terminus and Car Park in Strasbourg, realised in 2001.
On this more recent scheme, the architect's strong design aesthetic is much more apparent. The burgeoning city of Montpellier - the fastest growing city in France - has been injected with an amalgamation of concrete and green-tinted glass, within which the city archive, library and sports department are enveloped. As design inspiration, Hadid looked to a felled tree, using the imagery of spreading......more
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BOM SUCESSO Resort: open for business
BOM SUCESSO open their huge architecture, leisure & golf resort for business: The new Architecture Resort, Leisure & Golf, is a tourism development project situated in the western coastal region of Portugal (Silver Coast), on a large area of land on the......more
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Japan will buy Senkaku & Diaoyu islands
Reports indicate that the much-disputed islands of Senkaku & Diaoyu will officially become Japanese property: Media reports from Kyodo news agency in Japan have indicated that the government will pay 2.05bn yen ($26m, GBP16.4m) to buy the islands.....more
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Joel Sanders Architect designs elegant safety net for NYU's Bobst Library: After several students at NYU jumped to their deaths in the atrium of the Bobst Library, a space designed by Philip Johnson in the late 1970s, the University took swift action to address......more
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Pinnacle One begins onsite
Concept designs revealed of glittering office tower by Make Architects' Beijing studio: The first images have now been released of a simple but elegant new office block in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. Conceptualised by the Beijing studio of......more
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New community in Istanbul
AECOM secures contract as project manager on $2.2billion Bio Istanbul campus: A $2.2bn development in Turkey moved a step forward this week as international firm AECOM announced that it has been awarded the project management contract for......more
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Rome reimagined
Among the treasured ruins of Roman streets, you will now find a smattering of eco-friendly Straw Bale Houses from BAG Offinamobile: From last January in the roman neighbourhood of Quadraro the building site of the first urban straw bale......more
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