The Twist Museum and Bridge, Norway
The Twist, designed by award-winning architecture BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, opened to the public in September 2019 in Norway. The project was the winning entry in the competition by Kistefos Museum. The design responds to the unique environment and enhances the visitor experience of Kistefos, one of Europe’s most naturally beautiful places to enjoy contemporary art. This 1.000 square meter building twists at the midway point as it crosses the Randselva river…
McLaren Elva Is a $1.7 Million Supercar with No Windshield!
McLaren’s latest Ultimate Series model pays a nod to its past. Dubbed the Elva, the open-topped supercar shares its name and design inspiration with the McLaren-Elva M1A of the 1960s. This new entry to the Ultimate Series has more power than the Senna, but less downforce – and no windscreen either. On the outside, the Elva looks like a mixture of Ferrari SP1 and McLaren’s own 720S. There is no roof or windscreen (unless you…
BREAKFAST Art and Engineering Studio
Founded in 2009, BREAKFAST is a new media art collective focused on creating forward-looking software-and-hardware-driven artworks that connect viewers to far-away places through interactive experiences and tell powerful stories about our rapidly-changing world. The studio's practice employs a unique blend of computer science, mechanical engineering, and playful, emotionally-striking aesthetics to invite audiences to reflect on the relationship between the physical, the digital, the global, and the intimate—as well as the evolving relationships between human bodies…
The Opus; a legacy by Zaha Hadid
Located within the Burj Khalifa district of Dubai, the Opus by Zaha Hadid Architects will house the first ‘ME by Melia (one of the world’s leading hoteliers)’ hotel in the Middle East. The five-star property will become somewhat of a legacy, as it is the only hotel in the world to have been fully designed both inside and out by the late architect, Zaha Hadid in 2007. The Opus is…
Napoli Afragola Rail Station, Italy
The new rail station of Napoli Afragola is designed as one of southern Italy’s key interchange stations serving four high-speed inter-city lines, three inter-regional lines and a local commuter line. The interchange is the first phase of a larger development that will complete in 2022. Construction began in 2015 with the building inaugurated in 2017. Zaha Hadid Architects conceived the project as an ‘urbanized public bridge’ that connects the communities on either side of the…
