Here's a look at the list of the 10 tallest skyscrapers expected to be completed in 2015. They include China's tallest building, a future skyscraper in New York, and Russia's super-tall, modern skyscrapers.
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Design firm apostrophy's has given its Thai office a complete facelift by renovating it. 'apos²' thus now combines new, important segments such as a learning media center, a design laboratory and common spaces for interdisciplinary interaction.
The desert, unrelenting and harsh, is certainly not the place you imagine your dream home to be. Bev Doolittle and her husband imagine it differently, who decided to buy four acres of dry land and rock outside California's Joshua Tree National Park and build The Desert House, one of the most stunning and unique pieces of residential architecture we've ever seen. It was for sale a few days ago, today it is sold.
In the past year, quite a few residential neighborhoods were designed, which strive to improve the living conditions of the community of residents by adding greenery and optimizing room lighting, as well as creating new types of dense construction in compact settlements. The website Designboom recently presented a list of the best neighborhood designs produced in 2014, which you can view in the present article.
The museums, which opened in 2014, are the result of long-term cooperation of the best architects, designers and artists. Thanks to them, the world is richer for quite a few exceptional cultural junctions from this year onward, and the Designboom portal has chosen 10 of those that are true excesses - especially in the architectural sense.
The Pantone company has opened a hotel in Brussels where you can admire a real explosion of color shades.
The One Central Park building in Sydney, by Parisian architect Jean Nouvel, has already won 12 prestigious architectural awards for its sustainable design and innovative design, including the flattering title of the best building in the world.
The Slovenian bureau Ofis arhitekti recently completed the construction of a new football stadium in the Belarusian city of Borisov. The building sinks into the surrounding forest and is wrapped in an interesting metal facade of organic shapes.
When designing a spacious home in the suburbs of Sao Paulo, the Brazilian architect from the architectural office Studio MK27 remained faithful to refined minimalism and a refined play of natural materials.
Take My Lighting But Don't Steal My Thunder is a surreal architectural illusion by British artist Alex Chinneck. A floating building that seems to defy all the laws of gravity floats in the middle of London's Covent Garden.
The modern Karst house, designed by Dekleva Gregorič architects, is an excellent example of a modern interpretation of traditional Slovenian construction here.
City gates have always been important structures that made a strong first impression on visitors. Today, this role has been taken over by airports, and thus cities are competing to build superairports, which will become bigger and more pompous in the future.