(srgpicker– flickr/creative commons license) Zaha Hadid’s contribution to the Expo 2008 in Zaragoza, Spain. This pedestrian bridge across the river Ebro acts as a gateway to the Expo, focusing the visitor on water sustainability. The bridge has a diamond-shaped section …
(LancerE– flickr/creative commons license) The Meadowlands Xanadu in New Jersey, originally due to open in 2009, will offer interactive entertainment venues, fine dining, outdoor amusements, runway fashion shows and even an indoor Snow Dome with skiing. The complex includes a …
(jingdianjiaju– flickr/creative commons license) Here’s an upscale interior space by Pascal Arquitectos in Mexico City. The entrance open to a dark lobby covered with metal plates on the walls and a terrazo floor. Crazy-cool TV screens offer a virtual atmosphere …
(FaceMePLS– flickr/creative commons license) Rapp & Rapp’s mixed-use development for Ypenburg, near the Hague in Netherlands, is a model solution to suburbanism. The Ypenburg Nato airfield was demolished to provide a “linear framework of public spaces” with its own architectural …
(ryanjraffa– flickr/creative commons license) The Amtrak train tunnel under Riverside Park in Manhattan, New York City, is the perfect spot for graffiti artists to contribute their talent for public display. Intermittent shafts of light illuminate concrete canvases for the common …
(Metro Centric– flickr/creative commons license) Another work by Santiago Calatrava. The Liège Guillemins station in Belgium is a railway hub for London, Paris, Brussels and Germany. Calatrava achieves another brilliant organic spine of steel (10,000 tons) and glass that speaks …
(isapisa– flickr/creative commons license) Turning again to the maze of fantastic projects in Dubai… The Palm Jumeirah is an enormous man-made peninsula in the shape of a palm tree. Residential housing has already gone up in the “branches” and the …
(joevare– flickr/creative commons license) It’s difficult to tell how the Akron Art Museum in Ohio relates to its context. I guess the cantalevered “cloud roof” gestures toward the street and the pyramid glass leans toward the historic brick buildings, but …
(pedro botton– flickr/creative commons license) The facade treatments of the Rue de Suisse housing in Paris, France by Herzog & De Meuron speak of very different spaces. The outside perforated metal is somewhat transparent and can be opened by the …
(Yoshi5000– flickr/creative commons license) Here’s a response to the Mercedes Benz Museum. The BMW Welt (BMW World) in München, Germany is by Wolf Prix with Coop Himmelb(l)au. This addition to the them-parkish BMW is fantistical and almost futurist. The design …