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…
Immersive Light-Based Installations, By Bruce Munro
Bruce Munro (born 2 June 1959) is a dual nationality English/Australian artist known for producing large immersive site-specific installations, often by massing components in the thousands. In 1977, he completed a Foundation course in Art and Design at Braintree Technical College, and in 1982 graduated from Bristol Polytechnic in Fine Art with a focus on painting. In 1984 he travelled to Australia, intending it to be a six-month holiday, but instead staying eight years. While…
Son Doong Cave; World's Largest Cave
Son Doong Cave (Vietnamese: Hang Son Doong) is world's largest cave, located in the heart of Phong Nha Ke-Bang National Park, Vietnam. It was first discovered in 1990, by a local man named Ho Khanh but he returned home and forgot about the cave. In 2008, he found the cave again and took note of the path, and subsequently led Howard and Deb Limbert of the British Cave Association to the cave for the first…
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…
