*️⃣The Valley

Architect #MVRDV
Designer #HeyligersArchitects #Heyligers
City #Amsterdam
Country #Netherlands #EU

🔤Valley, the dramatic, geology-inspired, plant-covered high-rise designed by MVRDV. Each of the 200 apartments has a unique floorplan.

Various locations throughout the three-tower complex offer breathtaking views of the city – the apartments, of course, but especially the sky bar at the top of the tallest tower, which visitors can access via the Molteni flagship store on the ground floor. Much of the building is open to the public: from the publicly accessible footpath that zig-zags up to the central valley from the street level, to the Grotto, an atrium that forms a covered street on the first floor where the Sapiens Lab

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Colour #tan
Material #stone
Function #mixeduse #residential #office
Address: Strawinskylaan 1023, 1077 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands
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*️⃣Bosco Verticale

Architect #Boeri #StefanoBoeri
City #Milan
Country #Italy #EU

🔤The porcelain stoneware finish of the facades incorporates the typical brown colour of bark, evoking the image of a pair of gigantic trees in which to live and which are rich in literary and symbolic implications.

The contrast with a series of elements in white stoneware – the stringcourses of the balconies and some modules on the front of the windowsills – introduces a syncopated rhythm in the composition which breaks up and “dematerializes” the visual compactness of the architectural bodies and amplifies the presence of the plants even more.

Unlike “mineral” facades in glass or stone, the plant-based shield does not reflect or magnify the sun’s rays but filters them thereby creating a welcoming internal microclimate without harmful effects on the environment. At the same time, the green curtain “regulates” humidity, produces oxygen and absorbs CO2. #greenery

Project was selected by #CTBUH as the best skyscraper of the year 2014. #award

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Colour #monochrome #black
Material #ceramic
Function #residential
Feature #skyscraper
Address: Via Gaetano de Castillia, 11, 20124 Milano MI, Italy
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*️⃣Free University library

Architect #Foster #NormanFoster
City #Berlin
Country #Germany #EU

🔤The foundation of the Free University in 1945 marked the rebirth of liberal education in Berlin after the war. This redevelopment and retrofit scheme, includes the restoration of its Modernist buildings and the creation of a new library for the Faculty of Philology.

The new library's four floors are contained within a naturally ventilated, bubble-like enclosure, which is clad in aluminium and glazed panels and supported on a tubular steel frame with a radial geometry. An inner membrane of translucent glass fibre filters sunlight and creates an atmosphere of concentration, while scattered window openings create changing patterns of light and shade, with momentary view of the sky and glimpses of sunlight.

The serpentine profile of the floors creates a pattern in which each floor swells or recedes with respect to the one above or below it, generating a sequence of generous, light-filled spaces in which to work. Interestingly, the library’s cranial form has earned it a nickname of its own – ‘The Berlin Brain’.

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Colour #white #yellow
Material #mattglass
Function #public #library
Feature #interior
Address: Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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*️⃣Marina Bay Sands

Architect #Safdie #MosheSafdie
Country #Singapore #AP

🔤Linked at the 57th floor by an expansive and lush garden skypark, the Marina Bay Sands Hotel represents a new urban typology characterized by its interconnectedness, both at the ground level and in the sky.

The hotel is designed to align with the URA's long-term planning objective to complete the ring of development around the Marina Bay water basin. Working with the URA guidelines, the building is set back from the waterfront edge and visually porous so as to open views from the CBD to the Singapore Strait beyond. At street level, the design includes a grand, connecting atrium lobby which extends the city's public pedestrian network (google street).

The SkyPark is a shaped structure constructed of spanning steel bridges hovering over the concrete towers below. It includes gardens, restaurants, a one of a kind infinity edge pool, and a public observation deck. It spans from tower to tower and cantilevers 65 meters (213 feet) beyond to form one of the world’s largest public cantilevers. #cantilever.

The 1,396 square meter swimming pool is the largest outdoor pool at its height. #record

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Material #steel
Function #public #observation #hospitality #hotel
Feature #skyscraper
Address: 10 Bayfront Ave, Singapore 018956
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#bonus@simoderna (Hitman 47 and Crazy rich asians movies had scenes filmed here)

*️⃣Capitol Complex: Palace of the Assembly and High Court

Architect #LeCorbusier #Corbusier
City #Chandigarh
Country #India #AP

🔤Chandigarh was one of India's first planned cities, and was Le Corbusier's largest project. He was commissioned to design the masterplan in the early 1950s, after being approved by Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. The city was to serve as the new independent Indian government's regional capital in Punjab, after the previous capital, Lahore, became part of Pakistan.

The architect was disappointed by the local authorities' decision to categorize housing by income level, which contradicted his vision of high-rise residential complexes. So The Capitol Complex, designed by Le Corbusier, was isolated from the city by artificial hills, reflecting his dissatisfaction with the project.

For the forms of the buildings themselves, Le Corbusier applied a combination of traditional Classical features and Indian design innovations, all simplified and realized in concrete.

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Colour #mixed
Material #rawconcrete
Function #political
Feature #district
Address: Sector 1, Chandigarh, 160001, India
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