Before an audience the teamworking architects Stefano Boeri, Richard Burdett, Mark Rylander and Jacques Herzog recently illustrated the developmental and stylistic lines and creative principles that will shape the area where the Milan World EXPO 2015 is to take place from 1 May to 30 October 2015. This marks the first step in the planning process that will lead to the realization of the challenging project dedicated to the theme ’Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life’, which EXPO 2015 will bring to the world’s attention. Continue Reading →
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Proposals launched for Foster + Partners’ ‘City Park’ at West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
UK architects Foster + Partners have also announced their proposed masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong.
The master plan involves two parks – a city park and the main nineteen hectare great park – while the streets, avenues and waterfront will be heavily planted. Continue Reading →
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Songdo International Business District (Songdo IBD) is a free trade and international business hub currently under construction on 1,500 acres of reclaimed land near Incheon International Airport.
Songdo IBD officially opened on August 7, 2009 as a designated Free Economic Zone and the first new sustainable city in the world designed to be an international business district. With its strategic location just 15 minutes driving time from Incheon International Airport and 3 ½ hours flying time to 1/3 of the world’s population and regional markets such as China, Russia and Japan, Songdo IBD will position South Korea as the commercial epicenter of Northeast Asia. Continue Reading →
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The proposal created by German duo Felix Yaparsidi + Valentin Ott was awarded first by the cultural department of the Federation of German Industry. Entitled ‘Instant Kiez’, the idea is an instant neighborhood that would create a kind of ’sociocultural social’ to support the new urban base. Continue Reading →
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felix yaparsidi, valentin ott‘Dream Hub Yongsan IBD’ Masterplan by Daniel Libeskind
The development site for the ‘Dream Hub‘ Yongsan International Business District (YIBD) is strategically and symbolically located within the heart of Seoul, Korea’s historic capital city, bordered by the Nam Mountains to the northeast, the majestic Han River to the southwest, and the extensive Yongsan Park to the east.
The design guidelines were to develop a sustainable city and management with a business-oriented plan, be easily accessible, and to create a new concept of a city that is ubiquitous with ecology. Besides environmental and business concerns, the YIBD is about creating a new lifestyle through a multi-functional complex, an urban setting of various living and cultural spaces working 24/7.
Five architectural firms were shortlisted: Asymptote, Foster + Partners, Jerde, Skidmore, Owings, Merrill (SOM) and Studio Daniel Libeskind. Continue Reading →
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‘This is a recent completion of a masterplan concept for one of the most prominent developers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Designed by U:phoria, the site is located within the upcoming District 9 at the peripheral boundary of the city and the development will be a township for exclusive living with a gated community of luxurious villas, an internal lake and waterways that reinforce and echo the presence of an adjacent river network. Continue Reading →
