Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Walt Disney Concert Hall is Located on Los Angeles, The United States. The Concert Hall opened in October 2003 and is part of The Music Center campus. It is the performance home of the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Designed by architect Frank Gehry with acoustic design by Yasuhisa Toyota, the hall's distinctive sweeping silver facade is an internationally recognized architectural landmark and the hall is heralded as one of the…
The Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center, China
The Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center, located in Nanjing, China, is a city-scale urban project designed by "MAD Architects", led by Ma Yansong. The mixed-use development has an overall building area of approximately 560,000 sqm, comprised of commercial, hotel, office, and residential programs. the high-rise structures (with a height of 120 m), located at the edge of the site, are characterized by vertical shading fins and permeable glass screens composed in a visually flowing form, reminiscent…
BMW Welt, Munich, Germany
BMW Welt (in English means BMW World), is a multi-functional exhibition facility of the BMW AG, designed by Coop Himmelblau and located in Munich, Germany. In direct proximity to the BMW Headquarters and the Olympia Park, it is designed to present the current products of BMW. "The building does not have the boredom of a hall, it is not only a temple, but also a market place and a communication center and meeting place for…
Harbin Opera House, China
The Harbin Opera House, located in the city of Harbin in the north of China, is the winner of ArchDaily's Building of the Year Awards in 2016. The building complex, designed by MAD Architects as “Cultural Centre of the Future”, is inspired by the frozen wilderness of its surrounds and is saturated with local identity, culture, and art. The design team worked with the motto of ‘lighting the rhythm of the frozen music’. The challenge…
The Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre, China
The Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre located in China, occupies a site area of 5.2 hectares with a construction floor space of 465,000 square metres. The taller of the two towers is 315 metres/68 floors high and contains office floors and the Jumeirah Hotel. The shorter tower is 255 metres/59 foors in height and houses a further 4-star hotel. The two towers share a five-level, mixed-use podium that houses the Cultural Centre. The four major…
