The Architecture of the National Traditions

New Fine Arts Center

New Fine Arts Center becomes the first public building constructed in a small Texas city for last thirty years. Local artists and active workers, parents and teachers, historians and collectors of national creativity participated in center building. All of them thought over what should be their place for public meetings

Hi-tech Audience

Project by Kell Muñoz Architects is almost 2000 sq.m., a hall 975 places and an audience completed with the hi-tech audio-visual equipment.
The project budget has been limited enough, $5.7 million dollars. This building of time declaring a multicultural modernism, traditional for district (Rio Grande Valley), mixed with the international modernism associating with Mexico.

Art Center in Texas

To allocate a new public place, the construction facade has been raised. The front composition from the bright vertical strips organized according to a color spectrum, very brightly allocates a building in a silent and harmonious landscape.

Rising of the New Moon

The Economic Moon

Financial crisis — not a hindrance for scale building of the landscape park Zabil. «The new Moon» becomes the central construction of the project. The construction in the form of a half moon — a symbol of force and energy of the countries of the East — will tell about today's prosperity of the United Arab Emirates.

The New Moon in Dubai

Monument interiors contain 5 floors. Everyone symbolizes one of five postulates of Islam: belief, a pray, mercy, mutual aid and pilgrimage. The design contains in itself a conference hall, cafe, children library and an information desk.

The New Moon Monument

The external part of a building decorated by the Arabian inscriptions represents a steel skeleton with emptiness. Such decision will give the chance to supervise illumination and air temperature on all platforms of the New Moon, will protect an interior from a direct sunlight and will provide free circulation of air streams. Inside there will be a special microclimate which will unload the central systems of safety. The project completely corresponds to ecological building standards. Solar batteries will be built in a building covering, and it considerably will lower energy consumption.

Fosters and FXFOWLE have won award World Architecture News

In a category of “city architecture”, within the limits of award WAN AWARDS, winners became known: building Beijing International Airport, project Foster + Partners, and plan Nordhavnen City Regenerative, project FXFOWLE. Both projects have outstripped more than hundred competitors, in a nomination of already realised buildings and objects.

City design

The constructed projects: the jury should choose 6 projects among the declared. In a nomination “city design” architectural objects in categories were accepted: "transport", "landscape", "infrastructure", "planning", "city design".

In a category of not constructed projects were accepted both under construction buildings, and conceptual projects.

Beijing International Airport by Foster + Partners

Badgers View Farm

Building of unique apartment house Badgers View Farm in Chilterns (England) has begun.

Architects Lewis and Hickey have designed this house in 400 sq.m. representing modern displays and features. This project is extremely harmoniously entered in a reality, as though supplementing a landscape.

The matter is that district Chilterns are cretaceous calcareous breeds making the way through soil. So the form and appearance of this house are ideally combined with district.

Architects explain, what exactly such rocks acting from the earth which lean against each other, and have inspired them on creation of such project.

The terrace located on a roof and almost entirely glazed facades, allow to enjoy surrounding landscape and to feel a unification with the nature.

Office building in Johannesburg

The newest addition to Vest Rand's landscape in Johannesburg (Southern Africa) — for a long time an expected building for offices of financial institutions WesBank and FNB HomeLoans.

The building site was before a heathland, and designers have decided to connect the project with surrounding landscape. Green has flown down also vegetative colours of facades cause direct associations with the African nature.

The building represents three-storyed structure with oblique concrete columns.

The building can accept more than 5,000 persons, and contains offices, a dining room with two kitchens, ready to make 2,000 dinners in day and a 600-seater multipurpose conference hall.

Social habitation in Paris

French architectural bureau ECDM has finished building of an apartment house in the north of Paris.

Here it is planned to place students, university teachers and women who require support — so it is spoken in release.

Various wings of a building are identified by colour — designers have thought up the original colour coding. Authors assert, that the concept, ideally corresponds to a district landscape.

The project will play various roles in the future; a stimulator of development, a divider of territory, a link between industrial and commercial buildings. The building place is mastered as follows: here 150 apartments for 170 inhabitants, 19 houses for researchers and the invited professors, and also already mentioned women are created.

In a complex all necessary household equipment is provided. Here there are premises for protection, private rooms for work and study, laundries, rooms for rest, as inside, and on the nature, gardens with fruit trees.

Buildings are focused on the east and the West that allows to protect naturally inhabitants from pollution and the noise connected with road lying nearby. Parametres of volume of four buildings are perfectly integrated into an architectural landscape of district, transition and interaction with the next buildings is conveniently organised.

The Variant of Integration: a new & traditional

The Modern Facade

Natoma Architects have suggested not to refuse from actual in traditional conditions. They have entered a modern facade in a classical architectural landscape of San Francisco. The main innovation of this construction — a continuous metal covering which allows to get to a sunlight inside. The interior also is minimum as a matter of fact.