China Hangzhou E-sports Center, China
Designed by CSADI, Hangzhou E-sports Center is located in the Beijingyuan Ecological Park at the southern foot of Gaoting Mountain. It was the first standard stadium for Asian Games E-sports competitions in China after E-sports is confirmed as an official competition event of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. This is a public place integrating a sports venue and ecological park. The sunken plazas and courtyards around the building bring sunlight and air to the underground…
Tencent Beijing Headquarters, China
Tencent’s new headquarters in Beijing will accommodate thousands of employees. Instead of seeking soaring heights to host the expansion of the digital workforce, OMA designed a square-shaped floating volume of merely 7 floors that stretches out horizontally, with the exceptionally large floorplan of 180 x 180m. Tencent Headquarters is a city in a singular building – the campus allows for unique manipulations not possible within the limits of typical traditional offices. …
Selene Tower by Norman Foster, NY
Foster + Partners takes to Midtown Manhattan with the design of ‘Selene,’ a luxury condominium tower. The neighborhood marks the epicenter for luxury living in New York. Formally, it responds to the precedent set by two neighboring twentieth-century Modernist icons – SOM’s 21-storey Lever House of 1952 and Mies van der Rohe’s 38-story Seagram Building of 1958. Within the tower, apartments range from one-bedrooms to a duplex full-floor penthouse. Each opens up with lofty, eleven-foot-high…
ME Dubai Hotel (The Opus) by Zaha Hadid
The ME Dubai at the Opus is the only hotel in the world that can claim to have had both its exterior and interiors designed by the late Zaha Hadid. Set in Dubai's Burj Khalifa district, the Opus is a mirrored glass building occupied by a hotel, offices, serviced apartments and several restaurants. The ME Dubai hotel, which opened in March 2020, has 74 bedrooms and 19 suites. The…
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, USA
Located in downtown Kansas City, the Kauffman Center serves as a catalyst for social, educational, and economic vitality in the city and the region. Composed of a proscenium theater and concert hall, Kauffman Center takes advantage of the topography. The two halls are connected by a single grand foyer in the form of an expansive glazed porch contained by glass, offering sweeping views outward over the city to the south. The curved, segmented northern walls…
