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Title : Web Structures on cloud nine in India

West Bengal developer Forum Projects has recruited the world’s leading earthquake engineering specialists to help create its dramatic cloud structure above the Kolkata skyline. Sitting 500ft in the air, ‘Deya’ (which means cloud) will connect the two towers that will make up &lsquo

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Title : Exoskeleton-Wrapped O-14 Tower by Reiser + Umemoto

Reiser + Umemoto Architects designed the O-14 Tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. O-14 Tower by Reiser + Umemoto O-14, a 22-story tall commercial tower perched on a two-story podium, broke ground in February 2007, and comprises over 300,000 square feet of office space for the Dubai Business

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Title : LAVA - FUTURE HOME

LAVA’s Home of the Future is a showcase for future living, with nature, technology and man in a new harmony. The Home of the Future will start construction in late 2011 on the rooftop of a new furniture mall in Beijing, China. An ETFE geodesic skydome provides a year-round microclimate that

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Title : MVRDV Press release Future Towers India

City Corporation Ltd, a leading real estate development corporation in the Indian state of Maharashtra has started construction on the first phase of Amanora Apartment City - Future Towers, designed by MVRDV. The project is located in Pune, India and comprises of 1,068 apartments & public amenit

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Title : Foster + Partners Selected to Design Master Plan for West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong

Foster + Partners has been selected for the design of the 40-hectare master plan for West Kowloon Cultural District. The winning proposal City Park will be a major cultural center for music, performing and visual arts, incorporating public spaces and spaces for Chinese culture, living, working, gall

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Title : Competition Result for the New Saint-Laurent Sports Complex in Montreal

The Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent announced the winning project of the Québec-wide architecture competition for its future sports complex. Of the four concepts proposed, the jury chose the one submitted by the team Saucier + Perrotte Architectes – Hughes Condon Marler Architects / S

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Title : Vertical Garden Cleans Air Inside Office Building

Vertical garden and green roof dynamos, Urbanarbolism, have successfully completed another project in collaboration with Paisajismo Urbano, this time an indoor vertical garden in Elche, Spain. The three story indoor garden is considered to be Spain's largest and also works to clear the air of indoor

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Title : Tel Aviv Mayor keeps residents in the dark about city�s master plan

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai is promoting a comprehensive master plan for the city, while leaving the media, civil society groups and the city’s own residents in the dark about the plan’s full scope and details. By Jesse Fox Halfway through his third term in power, Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huld

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Title : MVRDV selected to envision 300ha port refurbishment in Caen, France

(Caen, March 1st, 2011) Today the City of Caen, France, announced the architecture teams to work on the refurbishment of a 300ha old industrial area and port, the Caen Peninsula (Presqu’ile de Caen). MVRDV and two other teams have been selected to collaborate for the coming four years on a vis

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Title : Eight Teams Shortlisted in Multi-Comfort House Competition

The subject of the competition is the creative approach to the concept of energy efficient construction for high rise buildings. The aim is to design a multiple-use tower according to Isover Multi-Comfort House definition and with Passive House components. The new tower should become a leading proje

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Title : THE JOMOLINE: Guinness World Record

Architecture Caribbean would like to congratulate Jomo Wahtuse who has been awarded the Guinness World Record for the largest steelpan in the world - the Jomoline. His claim for the Largest steel pan / steel drum - Claim Number: 313592 with the Guinness Book fo Records has been successful and confir

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Title : Revealing Florence Architecture

Set against a scenic and historic backdrop, the Florence Institute of Design International will again offer a unique four-week architectural learning experience for aspiring and professional architects. The course, which will run from June 1 to 30, will usher students though different architectural

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Title : Eleven Winners of the 2011 AIA Young Architects Award Announced

Jack Baumann, AIA Baumann promotes architecture as more than just creating physical buildings, but creating relationships with his colleagues, his clients, and his peers, looking toward the future from the impact he makes today. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced the 11 r

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Title : MoMA PS1 & MAXXI Young Architects Program 2011 - The Winners

The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and the National Museum of XXI Century Arts of Rome just announced Interboro Partners of Brooklyn, NY, as the winner of the 12th annual Young Architects Program in New York, and stARTT, of Rome, as the winner of the first annual YAP_MAXXI Young Architects Program

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Title : Ephemeral Architecture: The Fleeting Forms of West African Adobe Mosques

Lawrence Waldron was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. He received his primary school education at Our Lady of Fatima, R.C. School in Laventille and secondary education at College of the Immaculate Conception (St. Mary's College) in Port-of-Spain, before moving to New York in 1985. In 2010, he receiv

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Title : Winners of �Kay e Sante nan Ayiti� - Haiti Housing and Health Competition

The five winning designs of "Kay e Sante nan Ayiti" (Creole for Housing and Health in Haiti) were announced. Organized by ARCHIVE(Architecture for Health in Vulnerable Environments), the open-innovation design competition aims to demonstrate the importance of health considerations in housi

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Title : Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Designed as a football and rugby stadium, the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium is located beside North End Lake with terraces and hills in the middle of Prince Alfred's Park. The stadium, designed by GMP Architekten, is set in the surrounding area as a landmark building, rising from the edge of the l

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Title : Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban, South Africa

The Moses Mabhid Stadium in Durban, designed by GMP Architekten and Ibhola Lethu Consortium, features an array of eco-worthy design features. The Moses Mabhid Stadium, named for Moses Mabhida, a former general secretary of the South African Communist Party, finished construction back in 2009 and has

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Title : Fashion Week Trinidad & Tobago 2010

Fashion Week Trinidad & Tobago (FWTT) 2010 seeks to revitalize and develop the local fashion industry and bring about the awareness of its lucrative socio-economic potential. As a non-profit organization, FWTT recognizes the tremendous creative and technical fashion talent present in Trinidad

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Title : Greenpoint Stadium - South Africa World Cup 2010

The Greenpoint Stadium in Cape Town was designed by German firm gmp architekten together with local architects and Louis Karol Architects. The new structure is one of the major stadiums intended to host the semi-finals of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. One of the most artistic football

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