Architect: Kohn Pederson Fox
Team Leaders: Paul Katz, FAIA  HKIA, James Von Klemperer, FAIA   Jeffrey A. Kenoff, AIA, Gary  Stluka, AIA, Bernard Chang, Audrey Choi
Awards: AIA New York City Chapter Design Award (2010), MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Award (2007)
Location: Tianjin, China
Estimated Completion: 2014
Size: 1.6 million GSF / 153,000 GSM
Client: Hang Lung Properties

The 2010 AIA New York winners were recently announced (we’ll share the full over view this weekend with you), and this project by Kohn Pedersen Fox received a design award in the Unbuilt category.   Just like the other winning projects, the design showcases New York talent and was chosen for its “design quality, program resolution, innovation, thoughtfulness and technique.”  The project, entitled Urban Market, is for Tianjin, China.  The urban center is a way to reinvigorate the river banks through new uses, such as cultural institutions.  The hope it that the center will grow to establish “a new identity for the city that links its culture to its historic place of commerce.” Read the rest of this entry »

Architect: Gnädinger Architects
Project Type: Healthcare and Office Space
Location: Berlin, Germany.
Year: 2009

The building was designed for the Otto Bock HealthCare company, a world leader in prosthetics and orthotics. The organic-dynamic design of the six-storey building is based on the principles of nature – as a model of harmony between technology and people. Read the rest of this entry »

Project: Winery Casa da Torre
Client: Manuel Sousa Lopes
Location: Louro – Vila Nova de Famalicão – Portugal
Architecture: Carlos Castanheira & Clara Bastai, Arqtos Lda.
Team: Orlando Sousa
Consultancies: Paulo Fidalgo, Eng. Civil
HDP Gabinete Projectos. Engenharia Civil, Lda.
Project Date: 2008-2009
Photography: Fernando Guerra FG + SG – Fotografia de Arquitectura

Portuguese architects Castanheira & Bastai have designed the Adega Casa da Torre, a winery in Louro, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal.

Description of Adega Casa da Torre by Carlos Castanheira

A winery is no longer what it used to be. I once knew wineries where cobwebs and dust, were the sign of time passing and of the times. Time was also, almost always, the sign of quality, as the wine that got preserved over time, at the time, was good wine, which got even better after being left there for a few years. Read the rest of this entry »

Architect: AnL Studio / Keehyun Ahn, Minsoo Lee
Location: Song-do New City, Incheon, South Korea
Planning & Producing: Chang Gil-Hwang, Kim Yong-Bae
Client: Incheon Metropolitan City, South Korea
Site area: 350 sqm
Building area: 91 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: AnL Studio

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Expected to be completed in 2013, Herzog & de Meuron’s new redevelopment project in Porta Volta, Milan will include the headquarters for the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. The Feltrinelli Group considers the site as an ideal environment for the foundation’s multiple activities and the overall masterplan for Porta Volta will consist of the Fondazione, two new office buildings, and a generous green area. “This undertaking by the Feltrinelli Group has an important urban dimension in that it strengthens and reinforces the city.”

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