Civita di Bagnoregio - Viterbo, Italy

The Progettospore path was planned for pedestrian transit and small vehicles. The path acts like a bridge that splits into three different walkways and looks like a contemporary sculpture that is hung in the sky with a strong affinity to the work of London based Iraqi Architect Zaha Hadid. Whereas in two of the walkways there is a significant slope the third is moderated and is also accessible to disabled people in wheelchairs.

HOJO - Tokyo, Japan

Architecton complete house taking inspiration from traditional Japanese landscape architecure. The Japanese word 'Hojo' had been originally used to describe the extent of a space in 1jo by 1jo, (1jo = about 3m) but later the word gradually started to refer to a building in such size and scale. In the course of Japanese traditional architecture, this small spatial unit became the starting point to produce a tea-ceremony room and ‘Sho-in’ space, and later it was developed as a daily living space of Buddhist monks with an integrated garden.

Starbrick by Studio Olafur Eliasson

Studio Olafur Eliasson is an experimental laboratory located in Berlin. Led by renowned Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, it functions as an interdisciplinary space, generating fresh dialogues between art and its surroundings.A new product designed for Zumtobel is a modular lighting system called Starbrick. It consists of injection-moulded polycarbonate components with a matte black finish. The semi-transparent, yellow, reflective surfaces at its core are backlit by LEDs. The light from the outward-facing LED Boards is concentrated and evenly distributed via polycarbonate refractors.

Curtain Door - Surat, India

The Architectural Review’s Emerging Architecture Awards, sponsored by Ramboll and Austin-Smith:Lord, celebrates the best pieces of design by young architects from across the world. The door alone to this diamond merchant’s residence in Surat, India, designed by Matharoo Associates was judged enough to make it one of the four prize winners this year.

Carrasco International Airport - Montevideo, Uruguay

This is the new ‘gateway’ airport into Uruguay was designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects. Situated 11 miles east of Montevideo the airport is the first airport in the country to provide year-round international connections. The design places prominence on the public zones — including the secure runway-side concourse as well as the roadside departure hall and terrace. Housed beneath a 366m gently curved roof are restaurants, retail and internal landscaping, as well as check-in desks and departure lounges for the estimated one million passengers a year.

Voestalpine - Linz, Austria

Dietmar Feichtinger Architects have completed this building for Voest Steelworks, a new finance and sales head office in Linz, Austria. The structure is built of reinforced concrete, flanked on the open edges by planted embankments, naturally cross-ventilated and lit from planted atriums and broken up into almost domestic proportions by glass walls.

The Cloud - London, UK

A team of leading architects and engineers has just unveiled designs for The Cloud - a landmark structure to commemorate London's role as host of the 2012 Olympics. The lightweight transparent tower, composed of a "cloud" of inflatable, light-emitting spheres, would create a spatial, three-dimensional display in the skies of London, fed by real time information from all over the world.

Larsson & Lange Shu Uemura - Malmö, Sweden

Larsson & Lange, in collaboration with Shu Uemura, opened his new furnishing salon of Konceptrum on Customs Street East at Queen Square in Malmo.

Aquatics Centre 2012 - London, UK

Gimpo Art Hall - Gimpo, South Korea

Seoul architects G.Lab*’s, of Gansam Partners, proposal for the Gimpo Art Hall embraces the fact that the city is emerging as a contemporary regional hub and the design also reflects upon the region’s history. Located on the eastern end of a city block, the art hall emphasizes pedestrian access by incorporating a friendly walk into the design. The building mass is also lifted above the street level to create a covered pedestrian plaza. Aesthetically, the structure sprouts from the ground, branches, multiplies, and envelopes the building. This structural-aesthetic reinforces Gimpo’s roots and modernization, while creating an interesting play on light and shadow.




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Tree of Knowledge - Barcaldine, Australia

Brisbane based architecture practice m3architecture, in association with Brian Hooper Architect, have recently completed a £3 million memorial project for the Tree of Knowledge, accredited as being the birthplace of the Australian Labour party in 1891. Following the poisoning of the tree in 2006 a memorial was commissioned to commemorate and mark this historical landmark located in the small town of Barcaldine in Queensland, Australia.

Children’s Hospital of Ireland - Dublin, Ireland

Brian Cowen (Ireland’s Prime Minister) has announced the selection of NBBJ Architects in London and Murray O’Laoire/Brian O’Connell Associates to design the new Children’s Hospital of Ireland in Dublin and Ambulatory & Urgent Care Centre at Tallaght. The three architectural practices will collaborate on the design of these landmark healthcare facilities which are part of a new HSE initiative for the cohesive delivery of healthcare for children in Ireland.

Roma: MAXXI - Rome, Italy

Maxxi, which opens to the public on Saturday for a two-day “architectural preview,” stands in a drowsy neighborhood of early-20th-century apartment buildings and former army barracks called Flaminio. The new museum of contemporary art designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, will remain empty of art until the spring, when the museum is scheduled to hold its first exhibition.

Jesolo Magica - Jesolo, Italy

Zaha Hadid Architects has designed a retail and business center in the town of Jesolo, Italy, to be situated between the city centre and the sea. The project includes a 5 star hotel, 2 storey retail complex, congress hall, wellness centre, offices and panoramic restaurants.

PRISM Gallery - Los Angeles, USA

Los Angeles-based architects Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich of architectural practice Patterns have completed an art gallery on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. Called PRISM, the project is a three-storey gallery space designed to showcase work by new artists. The building incorporates exhibition space, film-viewing and lecture areas, and a bookshop.

Casadetodos Villa - Santiago, Chile

The Casadetodos villa, designed by Verónica Arcos, is a project that arises from a single family house comission, at the high region of El Arrayán, Santiago. he project is articulated from the intention of exploring potentials in non conventional structures; the generation of complex surfaces and ensuring views towards the mountain. The structural strategy consists in positioning four metalic frames on each axis. Each frame is conceived as a single architectonic piece which varies according to the programmatic needs, creating ruled surfaces, making a loft through them.

New Opera House - Zhejiang, China

Designed by Gresham, Smith and Partners, the Zhoushan Opera House, a performing arts facility containing four performance venues and associated circulation and support spaces totaling approximately 20,700 sqm of conditioned space, is to be constructed as part of an engineered peninsula narrowing the waterway between Zhoushan Island and Mount Putuo Island, China.

Photoreal Environments in Maya

The clip below was shot was modeled, textured, and rendered with the help of the Glyph Software Mattepainting Toolkit. The Mattepainting Toolkit is a newly released plugin suite for Autodesk Maya that allows artists to efficiently manage multiple camera projections for the creation of photoreal environments. The toolkit has been developed by Michael Breymann who identified a need to more efficiently model and render scenes that rely heavily on reprojected matte paintings.

The Emperor's Castle

For his student thesis project at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Thomas Hillier produced an immersive narrative world, complete with origami-filled hand-cut book pages and an elaborate model of the story's architectural landscape. Hillier's project was called The Emperor's Castle and it was inspired by the work of Japanese printmaker Hiroshige. The images below are "the final triptych," Hillier writes. They offer "a section through the urban theatre [that] illustrates the frenetic ‘life’ of the building.

CGarchitect.com Architectural 3D Awards 2009

CGarchitect.com hosted their 6th annual Architectural 3D Awards as part of the Mundos Digitales Conference in La Coruna, Spain. The Awards Competition was open to everyone in the Architectural Visualization industry to highlight the best imagery and animations done in 2008/2009. Click here to see all the winners .

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