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.

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Originally designed to be angular twin towers to rise …

Located in the capital city of Chile-Santiago, Chile based architects Izquierdo Lehmann design office tower building with a commercial complex in the base – Cruz del Sur Building. This building consists of 3,987 sqm site areas at the intersection of Apoquindo Av, main axis of Santiago, and Americo Vespucio Av, the capital’s circular beltway.

The site was opened on three fronts: to Apoquindo Avenue, north, to Southern Cross the street to the west, and Felix of Amesti street to the east. Given its location, the tower facing the axis of Avenida …

Located in Menton – France, N+B Architectes collaborated with Elodie Nourrigat & Jacques Brion re-design High School building – Paul Valery High School for Région Provence Alpes Côtes d’Azur. There are 900 sqm floor area restructured and 2,800 sqm of extension. The restructured and extension project took into account the notions of flexibility, coherence set in a specific environment and to enable the programmatic entities to be linked together around exterior spaces.

The new buildings take place in the heart of the gardens: gardens with plants for the boarding school, but …

This is temporary building of Nomiya Restaurant situated on roof of Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France near the Eiffel Tower. The Nomiya Restaurant built with artistic concept with stunning view of Paris City by Laurent Grasso with the collaboration of the architect Pascal Grasso. The restaurant comprises a glass cabin and a perforated metal screen covering the central cooking area. The 18 metre-long structure was part constructed in the Cherbourg boatyard in northern France and transported to Paris in two parts, where it was assembled on the roof of Le …

The Standard – Recently opened New York branch of the Standard Hotels offers some brazen contradictions. Designed by Polshek Partnership design partner Todd Schliemann for boutique hotel impresario André Balazs, the robust concrete structure lightly spans the High Line park, and while the hotel’s form is thoroughly contemporary. Completed in 2009, eighteen new floors and 204,500 sq. m., 337-room hotel is located in the Meatpacking district of Manhattan, a bustling along the west of the City. The design celebrates the possibilities and difficulties of interaction with the high line, an …

Norway based architectural firm A-Lab Architects completed design IT-Fornebu Portal building located in Fornebu-the former Oslo Airport, Norway. The new Portal building is an extension to the old Airport Terminal building housing the Business and incubation centre for information technology companies; IT-Fornebu. The Fornebu area is experiencing a surge in development, transforming a previously Airport into a new city-wide destination for business.

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The main concept was to strip and divide the program into independent architectonic elements, clearly defined by function, in order to gain maximal flexibility and distinct architectural identity. A …

This is the office building of SOZAWE located in Groningen city, Netherlands and designed by NL architects. This building have specific characteristic in the upper looks like terrace elevation. SOZAWE office building consists of office spaces, a large interior public space and 215 parking spaces. The building creates into open, inviting and sustainable. This public square allows interaction between the department and its customers, and the terracing condition of the building creates cross relations between floors. Each of the nine office floors open to an individual terrace, allowing workers …

This is the extension building design of National Library of Beijing designed by “KSP Engel und Zimmermann”. This building expanded with addition of approximately 12 million books and be used by an estimated 12,000 people per day.Base level are provide the contemporary library with reading rooms, reference works and a reference library, then above this level is the digital library, synonymous with the future, global communication and networking.

The three elements – the heightened base, the pillars and the roof are stylistic elements, reserved for historic importance, mostly public buildings. The …