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MAD designs Chinese waterfront arts center as a ‘gentle ripple by the lake’

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” When completed in 2029, the Nanhai Art Center will cover an area of 640,000 square feet, housing a grand theater, a museum, and a sports center. MAD Architects has designed a waterfront arts center in China’s Foshan City described as a “gentle ripple by the lake.”

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It shouldn’t take 17 years to build affordable housing

Brandon Donnelly

If you are the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and you own excess land next to a transit line that you’ve just recently built, one possible option could be to give this land to a non-profit housing developer so that they can build some affordable housing. million to build. Time isn’t free.

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MAD designs Nanhai Art Center to emulate "continuous wave of water"

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Architecture studio MAD has revealed its design for an arts centre on a waterfront site in Guangdong, China , which will have an undulating form modelled on moving water. Encompassing 121,275 square metres, the mixed-use Nanhai Art Center will be divided into three buildings containing a theatre, museum and sports centre.

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Zaha Hadid Architects designing sinuous lookout at Neom ski resort

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Neom also revealed renders of the structure seemingly showing two possible options for the building. Named the Mountain Observatory, the building will overlook the central lake as part of a district within Trojena named Discover. The mountain-top building will overlook the resort's central lake.

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Neom releases renders of Zaha Hadid Architects' crystalline skyscraper

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The development will also contain buildings designed by Dutch practices UNStudio and Mecanoo , US studio Aedas and Australian studio Bureau Proberts. Trojena, which is one of the four regions of Neom that has been announced, is intended to be fully complete before the region hosts the Asian Winter Games in 2029.

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Zaha Hadid Architects designs crystalline skyscraper above Neom ski resort

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Although full details of the building's use have not yet been revealed, the tower will contain shops, restaurants and exhibition spaces along with observation decks at three different levels. Renders of the skyscraper show a crystal-like structure made of numerous columns that tappers towards the peak.

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Cobe and Lundén Architecture Company win competition for community and municipal building in Finland

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Cobe together with Finnish Lundén Architecture Company have won the competition to design the Espoo House – a 24,000 m2 hybrid municipal building serving both decision-makers, city employees and residents, as well as various residential blocks, in the Finnish city of Espoo.