Amsterdam Light Festival
Every winter a new edition of Amsterdam Light Festival is organized, with artworks that are created especially for the festival. The annual Amsterdam Light Festival (ALF) illuminates the city with brilliant works of light art. Each year, hundreds of ideas are submitted by designers, architects and artists from around the world. A selection committee usually chooses about 30 artworks that make up the festival’s installations. In collaboration with…
La Seine Musicale, France
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has completed a music hall complex including a multi-purpose hall, a classical music hall and a school of music, located on Seguin Island in the western suburbs of Paris. It is a cultural facility featuring an egg-shaped auditorium and a wall of solar panels that move to follow the path of the sun. A concrete wall defines the perimeter of the site along the water's…
Forma Skyscrapers; The Tallest Residential Towers by Gehry
Canadian architect Frank Gehry has revealed visuals of his Forma skyscrapers, which are set to be built in Toronto, Canada, and feature interiors by Paolo Ferrari. The Forma project will comprise two towers, a 308-metre-tall western and a 262-metre-tall eastern tower, which will be the tallest residential towers ever designed by Gehry. Both towers will hold luxury condominiums, as well as an extension campus for the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD). …
Huge Circle Around Burj Khalifa (Downtown Circle)
As a response to the dilemma of how to build densely while retaining livability, the downtown circle project establishes a sustainable and a self-sufficient vertical urbanism. With a circumference of 3000 mts the downtown circle functions as a continuous metropolis which is flexible and forward-looking. The concept proposes a 550-meter-tall ringed vertical city that encircles the monumental Burj Khalifa. The continuous ring-like metropolis will hover above the city’s skyline…
Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taiwan
Taipei Performing Arts Center, designed by OMA, is architecture in limbo: specific yet flexible, undisrupted yet public, iconic without being conceived as such. Three theaters plugged into a central cube allow performing spaces to be coupled for new theatrical possibilities. Different than typical performance centers that have a front and a back side, Taipei Performing Arts Center has multiple faces defined by the theaters protruding above ground. With opaque facades, these theaters appear as mysterious…
