Boston-based architect Moshe Safdie presents the great modern architectural design of Marina Bay Sands, 10 million square-foot urban district anchors the Singapore waterfront, creates a gateway to Singapore, and provides a dynamic setting for a vibrant public life. This building is a high-density, mixed-use integrated resort that brings together a 2,561-room hotel, convention center, shopping and dining, theaters, museum, and a casino across the water from Singapore’s Central Business District. Safdie designed an urban structure that weaves together the components of a complex program into a dynamic urban …

Daniel Safarik from Santa Monica Architecture firm Pugh + Scarpa have sent us a new 12 unit Mixed-Use building in LA called Cherokee Lofts. This building is located within walking distance to many neighborhood community needs and services and scores “Walker’s Paradise”, used as urban infill building, mixed-use, market-rate housing project. The building is inspired by the series of paintings by the British artist Patrick Hughes titled, “Prospectivity”, whose paintings appear to be ever changing and physically moving while being viewed. At Cherokee the main architectural feature of this …

The Mosaic Building situated in China’s Capital city Beijing, created by Japanese architect Keiichiro SAKO / SAKO Architects. The lower part of the building is the department store, and 3 residential towers were built on top of it. The motif of “Mosaic” was adopted through out this project. The big volume consisting of “mosaic” is to convey the image of the landmark filled with festivity like the spectacle of fluttering confetti. In order to enlarge the sphere of business, the purpose to demonstrate its presence in other regions has been …

The modern Linked Hybrid Building located in Beijing, used for apartments, public green space, commercial zones, hotel, cinemateque, kindergarten, Montessori school, underground parking. This building designed by Steven Holl Architects for Modern Green Development Co., Ltd. This sited adjacent to the site of old city wall of Beijing, aims to counter the current urban developments in China by creating a new twenty-first century porous urban space, inviting and open to the public from every side. The ground level offers a number of open passages for all people (residents and visitors) …

Located in Marina Bay Singapore, the Sail @ Marina Bay by NBBJ is the mixed-use building comprising apartment units, several restaurants, health clubs, recreation decks with pools and tennis courts, and parking. As the 10th largest residential high-rise in the world, and the largest high-rise in Singapore, the Sail @ Marina Bay has become Singapore’s newest city icon. It carves out the leading edge of Singapore’s emerging new skyline. The development is the first project in the area to introduce residential units and is designed to advance Singapore’s leadership in …

Los Angeles based R204DESIGN and local Swiss architects Plancherel/Schmid were commissioned to design the mixed-use project of Urban Renewal in Lausanne Switzerland, which would come to be known as “Les Colonnades” for its marching columns fronting the adjacent pedestrian passage. The program consists of a high-end restaurant on the ground floor, 2 floors of commercial office space, and residential flats on the top floor.
The building employs a number of environmental design strategies to mitigate heat and energy transfer, including automated louvers and lighting schemes. The roof was designed as a …

The Burj Dubai open for business at 4 Jan 2010 and become the tallest building in the world. This skyscrapers building designed by Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) for Emaar Properties and have 2,683ft its base to the tip of its spire. It is also the first time that a predominantly residential building has taken the title, though a residential function actually lends itself better to achieving great height if that is the driving force for the project.

The Burj Dubai sits at the centre of a …

Designed by Netherlands based architect René van Zuuk, this building used for Pavilion – shops, lunchroom, office, and entrance for parking area in Roosendaal Netherland. Over the main car park entrance, the cantilevered south aspect of the pavilion allows natural light to penetrate the two underground levels. The idea behind the urban proposal was that the pavilion would divide the square in two parts in such a way that you would still have the feeling of being on one big square. Because of the market activities which occupy the …

Digital Media City (DCM) Landmark Tower Seoul will be completed at 2014 and became the second tallest building in the world. This building situated at the north of the Han River- Seoul, designed by Samoo Architects & Engineer for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM) and will have 640 m high just 180 metres shorter than Burj Dubai. The tower will include businesses, residences, hotel rooms as well as a convention centre with 133 total floors.

Courtesy of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP
Originally designed to be angular twin towers to rise …

This is the modern architectural of Aqua Tower building designed by Studio Gang Architects The building is still under construction and planed for mixed-use high-rise that includes a hotel, apartments, condominiums, parking and offices. Unlike a tower in an open field, new towers in urban environments must negotiate small view corridors between existing buildings. Among the building’s notable features is the green roof terrace atop its plinth—which at 80,000 sf is one of Chicago’s largest—that contains an outdoor pool, running track, gardens, fire pits and yoga terrace.

A series of contours …