O-Tower (Infinity Loop Skyscraper), China
BIG Studio has designed the O-Tower for the new OPPO R&D Headquarters (China’s largest smartphone company) in Hangzhou. The design combines aesthetics and innovative technology in a building that will be an environmental, economical, and socially sustainable hub for innovation. Described by BIG as being infinity-loop shaped, the skyscraper was designed to "connect ground to sky in a continuous loop of collaboration". The tower, with an area of 161330 m2, sits between a natural lake,…
Second Home Hollywood, LA
Second Home, the co-working business for entrepreneurs and innovators, has opened its first U.S. location in Los Angeles. ‘Second Home Hollywood’, also known as ‘HolLA’, is designed by SelgasCano. The architects transformed a former Hollywood parking-lot into a sprawling co-working complex which is surrounded by a garden. Second Home Hollywood has replaced 90,800 square feet of hardscape for 70,000 square feet of landscape. What previously was a parking lot is now a garden. …
White Sands National Park, USA
White Sands National Park, located in New Mexico, USA, is the largest gypsum sand dune in the world. Here, great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert. Over 250 million years ago, the area that is now White Sands used to be a body of water called the Permian Sea. When the sea dried up and disappeared, the gypsum seabed eventually broke down into smaller particles. …
200 Amsterdam Avenue Tower, NYC
“200 Amsterdam Avenue” is designed by Elkus Manfredi as a 21st-century interpretation of the city’s iconic pre-war towers, with interiors by Cetra Ruddy. The 668 feet tall tower is the Tallest Skyscraper on NYC’s Upper West Side. The Art Deco-inspired façade features a mix of glass and masonry, with detailing on the top, and cascading levels on one side to maximize sunlight. The 52-story complex houses 112 expansive condos in…
The Cloud Town Convention and Exhibition Center, China
Typical characters of traditional exhibition centers make them hard to be utilized in any other ways, causing a huge waste of resources invisibly. Even the busiest exhibition centers merely have a usage rate of 40%, meaning that they lie idle at least 200 days a year. The usage rate of most other exhibition centers is below 10%. Therefore, in the process of designing the first stage of Cloud Town Exhibition Center in 2015, Approach Design…
