Melania Tower is a hybrid building that includes a shopping mall, offices and luxury hotel apartments, estab- lished on the front of an artificial lake in Erbil, Iraq, with an organic structure. The length of this tower, which is about 140 meters, aims to be a tourist attraction and a landmark, helped by the formation of the organic facade based on...
Project name
Melania Tower
Architecture firm
Mohammad Hussen
Location
Erbil, Kurdistan region, Iraq
Visualization
Mohammad Hussen
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Typology
Commercial › Mixed Use, shopping mall, offices and luxury hotel
Aedas’ triumphant scheme of Genzon Technology Innovation Center in Shenzhen’s Nanshan District encompasses offices that promote a new mode of working, luxury hotel facilities and a bracing shopping experience.
Project name
Shenzhen Genzon Technology Innovation Center
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Dr. Andy Wen, Global Design Principal; Dong Wei Wang, Executive Director
Design team
Andy Wen, Dong Wei Wang
Client
Genzon Investment Group Co.
Status
Conceptcept - Design
Typology
Commercial › Offices, Retail, Hotels
Alongside its historical significance as a station on the southern Silk Road, the city of Tengchong in Yunnan Province has, in recent times, frequently drawn upon the natural qualities of a region that, given its position amongst the foothills of the Himalayas.
Project name
Tengchong Observation Tower
Architecture firm
Delugan Meissl Associated Architects (DMAA)
Location
Tengchong, Yunnan Province, China
Design team
Diogo Teixeira, Jurgis Gecys, Ernesto M. Mulch, Tom Peter-Hindelang, Ezgi Özkan
Structural engineer
Bollinger+Grohmann
Typology
Observation Tower
Dna Barcelona Architects unveils a Proposal for a New Icon Tower in the skyline of Shenzhen, China. The multi-use program of offices/Hotel and apartments allow us to create one common sky-garden at the center of the tower giving a unique microclimate and sustainable Building.
Project name
Leaf Tower, Shenzhen
Architecture firm
Dna Barcelona Architects
Visualization
Dna Barcelona Architects
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Aryanour Djalali
Design team
Dna Barcelona Architects
Typology
Commercial › Hotel, Apartments. Offices
Appointed in 2017 to expand the resort, Zaha Hadid Architects designed Studio City Phase 2 with new leisure, entertainment and hospitality facilities including one of Asia’s largest indoor & outdoor water parks and a six-screen Cineplex together with extensive conference and exhibition spaces.
Written by
Zaha Hadid Architects
A bid for the architectural concept of the National Space Center was announced in 2019. UNK was awarded the contract. The complex of the Center buildings is located in Moscow on the site of one of the leading enterprises of the Russian rocket and space industry developing and producing space launch vehicles, rocket upper stages to them, as well a...
Project name
The National Space Center
Construction
Institut Mosinzhproyekt OOO
Status
Under construction
The 21st century is marked by strong urbanization. Since 2008, more than half of the world’s population has been living in urban areas. This urbanization is generally accompanied by high-density development, which is associated with drawbacks such as air pollution and, above all, the lack of adequate space to accommodate this growing population.
Architecture firm
MEKEMTA Jodel Bismarc
Location
Vacant land in the wake of highways, Cameroon
Visualization
MEKEMTA Jodel Bismarc
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, SketchUp, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
MEKEMTA Jodel Bismarc
Typology
Mixed-Use Building
Crown Lighting Formally Celebrates Opening of the Firm’s Art Deco-Inspired Residential Tower.
Written by
Rockefeller Group
Photography
Eric Ficocelli