aasarchitecture

JULY 3, 2023

With the completion of the Booking.com City Campus in the heart of Amsterdam, all 6,500 employees of the Dutch travel platform can now work in the same building for the first time. Ben van Berkel: ‘We wanted to create a building that could also operate as a ‘recruitment machine’.

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aasarchitecture

JANUARY 16, 2024

Bergen ByArena is a new multi-purpose arena for up to 12,000 spectators, a large hotel and conference centre and the development plan for the Nygårdstangen area, where a new public transport terminal and 800 homes will be built. The area currently appears cold and unfriendly, creating barriers to the city’s use and connections.

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aasarchitecture

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Nanjing K.Wah G72 is expected to be one of the most expansive mixed-use developments in the Chinese city. UNStudio was commissioned by the developer K.Wah Group to create a human-centric destination where sustainability and culture play a key role in the daily lives of locals and visitors alike.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 20, 2024

Image © Aedas The campus benefits from its prime location neighbouring the infrastructural development including Luohu Railway Station, Luohu Port, Shenzhen MixC City and Future Medical City. The overall U-shaped layout of the teaching buildings opens up towards the city, symbolising a campus filled with knowledge.

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aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Wenzhou is planned to be one of the global high-tech cities by establishing Wenzhou Innovaland. Inspired by the connection between city and rivers, the design adopts an “Island Chain” concept. The stage well-connects the buildings and the developments in the vicinity through pedestrian bridges. Diagram. Image © Aedas.

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aasarchitecture

JULY 10, 2023

Västerås Travel Center is a new infrastructural hub in the heart of one of Sweden’s largest cities. The building is expected to open in 2025 and seeks to bring the entire city’s infrastructure together under one roof. Image © BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group The landscape unites across the railway and is shaped by flow.

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aasarchitecture

JANUARY 8, 2024

The new headquarters of Luso International Bank, originally from Macao, are being developed at the Zhujiang River in the new financial district of Guangzhou. The five-story, multi-level podium of the building forms a public urban space that – with a bus station and a metro station – will become a transport hub within the new city quarter.

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aasarchitecture

JANUARY 5, 2024

MAD Architects unveiled the design for the Nanhai Art Center in Foshan City, Guangdong, which covers a total site area of 59,445 square meters and includes three major functions: the Grand Theatre, the Museum, and the Sports Center. Image © MAD Architects The permeable facades allow nature to flow through the site back to the city.

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Embraced by a dynamic city fabric that located in between the Shenzhen CBD and Hong Kong, Xinsha is an old neighbourhood with narrow valleys under rapid urban regeneration. The layout facilitates an all-rounded development of students, which also signifies a continuous and interconnected learning loop.’ Chris describes.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 19, 2023

In the rise of the Binjiang Central Business District, the Wenzhou coast integrates financial, convention and leisure resources, incorporating international commercial activities to accelerate the development of the city. Image © Aedas The concave areas of the façade merge with the descending vertical fins to create majestic entrances.

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ArchiDiaries

APRIL 2, 2022

Studio, located in Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, China. After the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Integrated Development Outline Plan was upgraded to China’s national development plan, Beijing’s non-capital functions have been transferred outwards, with the clothing wholesale and processing industries bearing the brunt.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In a groundbreaking initiative, Mecanoo, introduces a innovative social housing project in Kaohsiung, marking a significant milestone as the city’s inaugural venture into communal living solutions.

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

UNStudio’s design proposal for NION, a 45,000 m2 state-of-the-art office tower in the Europaviertel in Frankfurt, was recently selected by Groß & Partner for further development. This lively hybrid city district, which combines residential, work and recreational facilities, has been in continual development since 2005.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 22, 2022

Designed as a dynamic and flexible centre, it will assist and train adolescents to develop the tools and skills necessary to address the future, while connecting and engaging with the city and the surrounding community. An outpost of spontaneous flora and fauna re-colonization in this part of the city. Program Diagram.

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aasarchitecture

AUGUST 1, 2022

The IULIUS group recently announced that the design proposal submitted by UNStudio has been selected as the winning design for Palas Residential, their latest project in the historical downtown of the city of Iasi in Romania. It is a place where heritage is always extant as the backdrop to the city’s very active and lively present.

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Shades of Grey

JUNE 1, 2024

Don't we have a duty to future generations as well as to our clients? Mapping the city and abstracting into diagrams was a multi-dimensional exercise. The models were later handed on to Paul Aubin and may have helped the team as they incrementally build up their digital representations of a wonderful historic city.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 23, 2022

Under the thematic topic “The Sociality of Social Housing,” MAD’s research focuses on the historical development and design of social housing across different countries. The research has been further developed by Ma Yansong’s own engagements with this subject while teaching at Tsinghua University and the Beijing Architecture University.

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Housing Diagram Residential Real Estate 52

aasarchitecture

MAY 8, 2022

A new kind of high-rise for Dubai UNStudio, in collaboration with Werner Sobek, was invited by the wasl Development Group to design a new kind of high-rise for the city of Dubai that would act as a benchmark for both the region and for the wasl Development Group itself. The city also enjoys an impressive infrastructure.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 1, 2022

The project is located in Puerto Santa Ana, extending the boulevard that is gradually being consolidated along much of the city’s waterfront. The façades facing the void between the towers, however, provide a very different character to the development. Diagram Sustainability. Image © MVRD. Image © MVRD. Image © MVRD.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Through a diversity of projects, the firm has transformed our understanding of the city and our evolving relationship with art, fashion, food, sustainability, and other quintessentially twenty-first-century preoccupations. The works presented here elaborate on OMA’s philosophy even as they expand its portfolio geographically.

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aasarchitecture

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Shenzhen, a vibrant and highly innovative city, is home to many leading and innovative corporate headquarters. In 2020, a competition was held for the design of the Shenzhen Super Headquarters Base tower C in the city. UNStudio developed a tailored tool to analyze the different positions of tower C in the urban context.

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aasarchitecture

MARCH 10, 2023

Regenarative Thessaloniki In line with the ongoing greening strategies of cities around the world, Thessaloniki’s Innovation Forest, or TI3F, proposes an urban forest right in the heart of Thessaloniki. Two axes and a path through the forest add to the vibrancy of this lower level and seamlessly connect the site with the rest of the city.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The quickening pace of AI’s development is both alarming and exciting, fuelling speculation about our own obsolescence. Using real data from Woods Bagot timesheets over the period of one year, this diagram postulates the gains in productivity that AI could provide by automating repetitious tasks across different project phases.

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Design Visualization Concept Diagram 108

aasarchitecture

JULY 11, 2023

Program The new complex will include the impressive Back of House which is necessary for large-scale productions: rehearsal spaces, workshops to produce stage sets, offices, storage for props and scenery and much more, arranged over three city blocks. A ‘village’ will emerge including a village square.

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Since the 2004 rezoning Downtown Brooklyn has experienced enormous growth with 30% population increase (45,000 new residents), 26% job growth and remains one of the busiest retail districts in the New York City. Diagram. Image © BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group. Image © BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group. Image © BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group.

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Architizer

AUGUST 3, 2022

Anselmo Testa: The concept was built around the idea that the ‘Show starts on the Sidewalk’ and the importance of exterior space and approach – tying the venue into the city fabric. The client wanted an Icon to anchor a developing arts and entertainment district as well as the community. client, community, etc….)

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aasarchitecture

MARCH 28, 2022

Cologne-based project developer PANDION recently held an international architectural competition for a new mixed-use high-rise building in Düsseldorf. This part of the tower also acts as a sound barrier for the inner courtyard and residential development behind. Image © UNStudio.

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aasarchitecture

AUGUST 22, 2022

Located on the edge of the Jiangbei New Area’s Financial District, Oasis Towers creates a mixed-use residential and commercial complex with a green landscape nestled between two 150-metre-tall towers, providing a haven for residents in a dense and rapidly developing part of the city. Urban Identity Diagram. Source by MVRDV.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 14, 2024

Located in the Liuxiandong Headquarters Base of Shenzhen, the T33 Full-Time Center (T33 for short), also known as Transsion Tower, is a vertical green building that stands out amidst the city’s skyline dominated by steel frames and glass curtain walls, providing a connection to nature. Interior: Shenzhen Cheng Chung Design Co.,

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e-architect

JANUARY 27, 2022

This land offers Tours Métropole the opportunity to rethink the entire airport area, and to include it in the urban renewal process yet under way in the north-east of the city. The availability of land offers an unprecedented opportunity to develop a vast public space for current and future users. Client: Tours Métropole.

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Masterplanning Real Estate Transportation Diagram 79

e-architect

JANUARY 30, 2023

Image: Rungkit Charoenwat Grant Associates first collaborated with architects Foster + Partners, TK Studio Co, and a wide team of consultants in 2017 to develop this unique and distinctive landscape concept. This approach really aligned with our views and passion as a practice for creating Landscape Cities.”

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Sustainability Masterplanning Residential Concept 62

aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It shows that the ‘hyper-new’ city of Shenzhen is entering its phase of reusing and renewing old buildings and turning them into the ‘new-old’.” “Not only were we able to make use of this existing structure, we intensified its use – adding an extra floor – and wove it into the public realm of Nantou with its green and public rooftop.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It shows that the ‘hyper-new’ city of Shenzhen is entering its phase of reusing and renewing old buildings and turning them into the ‘new-old’.” “Not only were we able to make use of this existing structure, we intensified its use – adding an extra floor – and wove it into the public realm of Nantou with its green and public rooftop.

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e-architect

JANUARY 16, 2023

Today, our latest experience with the global pandemic crisis and imminent climate change forces us to rethink architectural design and solve problems of cities and country development. Today, the story of the city is replaced by the term size.

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DesignScape Architects

JUNE 22, 2021

Our client, based overseas, is involved in a family farm in the Baviaans, with the closest town being Willowmore in the Karoo. First, though, we sent a simple diagram to the client for approval. Having the client’s approval on the concept, we developed the first Section. Some preliminary 1:5 details were developed.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 23, 2023

Image © Melike Altınışık Architects Location: Sapanca, Turkey Architect: Melike Altinisik Architects Design: Melike Altınışık MAA Project Director: Ayça Yontarım MAA Project Team: Sümeyye Uçar, Batuhan Güllü, Atakan Gündüz MAA Project Team (Concept Stage): Adham Mashaal, Ahmet Can Karakadılar, Elifcan Merden, Ömer Faruk Seçim MAA Architectural Assistants: (..)

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aasarchitecture

MAY 17, 2023

Photo © Zhang Chao Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China Architect: ATELIER XI Lead Architect: Chen Xi Project Architect: Zhu Jing (SD-DD), Weng Cekai (Concept-SD) Design Team: Lin Ziya, Ye Fangnan, Lin Zebang, He Xiansen Associate Architect: Zhonghang Guorun (Shenzhen) Construction Technology Development Co.,

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