Galleria Department Store, South Korea
Architecture firm OMA has completed the Galleria department store in Gwanggyo, South Korea. The Galleria is Korea’s first and largest upscale department store founded in the 1970s. The store in Gwanggyo is the sixth branch of Galleria. A place where retail and culture, city and nature collide, Galleria in Gwanggyo offers a get away from the predictability of shopping. The cube-shaped building is clad in tessellated triangles of stone. The mix of beige, brown and…
Mexico City International Airport by Norman Foster, Mexico
Collaboration between Foster + Partners, FR-EE and NACO won the international competition to design Mexico City’s new international airport. At 743,000 square meters, it will be one of the world’s largest airports and will revolutionize airport design. It pioneers a new concept for a large-span, single airport enclosure, which will achieve new levels of efficiency and flexibility. With spans in excess of 100 meters, three times the span of a conventional airport, it has a…
AI CITY by BIG Architects, China
BIG has unveiled its design for AI CITY which will house the headquarters of the world-leading smart service provider, Terminus Group. Located in southwest China, the project is set within the Chongqing Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone with the 135000 SQM Cloud Valley anchoring the Science and Technology Headquarters in the first phase of the masterplan. Cloud Valley takes its inspiration from the region’s undulating landscape where valleys and mountain form stunning connections between the earth…
Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, Saudi Arabia
The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (also known as Ithra) is a bold new initiative on the part of the Saudi Aramco Oil Company to promote cultural development within Saudi Arabia. Following an invited architectural design competition in 2007, Snøhetta was selected to design this new prestigious cultural facility. The design for the Saudi Aramco Cultural Center embraces both past and future, captured in the present. The building covers 100,000 square meters with its…
Merdeka PNB 118, Kuala Lumpur
Merdeka 118 is a mixed-development complex, which will be developed in three stages on 19-acres of land. Merdeka has 292,000 m2 gross floor area. It is a geometrically intricate 118 storey office and hotel tower that will be home to the headquarters for Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB), one of Malaysia's leading investment firms. With a completed height of more than 635 meters, PNB 118 will be the tallest building in Malaysia, and rank amongst the…
