City of Arts and Sciences, Spain
To maintain its city’s cultural standing, the government of Valencia resolved to establish a museum of national importance. The City of Arts and Sciences complex is designed by Santiago Calatrava on an 86-acre site along the dry bed of the Turia River in Spain. The complex is intended to bring new focus to an incoherent and underdeveloped area of Valencia and to link the center city with the sea. …
DUO Twin Tower, Singapore
Designed by Ole Scheeren, the DUO twin towers are an act of urban reconciliation. DUO integrates the surrounding context with its diverse mix of functions around a 24-hour accessible public plaza to form a new civic nexus for the dynamic, prosperous life of Singapore. DUO integrates living, working and retail with public gardens, cultural installations, and a diverse urban context. The two towers contain the project’s main functional elements:…
Bugatti Chiron Super Sport
The Bugatti Chiron is a mid-engine two-seater sports car designed and developed in Germany by Bugatti Engineering GmbH, the successor to the Bugatti Veyron, the Chiron was first shown at the Geneva Motor Show on 1 March 2016. The new addition to the Chiron line-up shares its mechanicals - and most of its styling - with the Chiron x, a limited-run special edition based on the specially adapted Chiron that achieved a record-breaking top speed…
Vancouver House, Canada
Awarded Future Project of the Year at the World Architecture Awards in 2015 for its innovation and beauty, Vancouver House has attracted attention from around the world. The Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) designed project includes both high-rise and low rise structures, with the tower rising 59-storeys. The residential tower is uniquely situated with views to both the water and the mountains, granting visual access to the breadth of Vancouver's natural surroundings. …
Shenzhen Natural History Museum, China
3XN, B+H and Zhubo Design were recently awarded first place in an international design competition for the new Shenzhen Natural History Museum. The new 100,000m2 facility will be a world-class natural science museum dedicated to interpreting the laws of natural evolution, showing the geographies of Shenzhen and its ecology in a global perspective, and actively advocating science. The winning design scheme, entitled “Delta”, rises seamlessly from the river delta, inviting visitors and…
