*️⃣Bahrain World Trade Center

Architect #KillaDesign
City #Manama
Country #Bahrain #ME

🔤During the site analysis a constant northwesterly onshore breeze was noted, and further investigation revealed this to be consistent and surprisingly strong. To harness it, three aerodynamic bridges were introduced, spanning the space between the towers and each bearing a 29m diameter wind turbine – the first such installation in the world. #kinetic

The turbines will provide up to 15% of the total energy requirements for the project. #sustainability

The relatively standard design brief for the initial stages had metamorphosed into a groundbreaking development on the world stage.

Towers stand on a large podium that incorporates much of the original shopping mall, which has been extended and reworked into a high-end retail centre, offering the world’s foremost brands through compact, luxurious shops with the intimacy of a traditional Arabian souk.

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Function #office
Feature #skyscraper
Address: Isa Al Kabeer Ave, Manama, Bahrain
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*️⃣Beijing Daxing International Airport

Architect #Hadid #ZahaHadid #ZHA
City #Beijing
Country #China #AP

🔤Echoing principles within traditional Chinese architecture that organise interconnected spaces around a central courtyard, the terminal’s design guides all passengers seamlessly towards the grand courtyard at its centre – a multi-layered meeting space at the heart of the terminal.

Natural light also enters the terminal via a network of linear skylights that provide an intuitive system of navigation throughout the building, guiding passengers to and from their departure gates.

Structural spans of up to 100m provide the terminal’s generous public spaces and allow the highest degree of flexibility for any future reconfiguration.

The compact radial configuration of the terminal allows a maximum number of aircraft to be parked directly at the terminal with minimum distances from the centre of the building. This configuration ensures the farthest boarding gate can be accessed in a walking time of less than 8 minutes.

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Colour #white #monochrome
Material #aluminium
Function #transportation #airport
Feature #interior #adminvisited
Address: GC56+W6C, Daxing District, Beijing, China
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*️⃣Messe Basel – New Hall

Architect #HdM #HerzogdeMeuron #Herzog #Meuron
City #Basel
Country #Switzerland #EU

🔤Viewed from the outside, exhibition halls are actually nothing more than a stack of big boxes. The architectural results are generally composed of vast, monotonous facades of brick. To avoid this repetitive sameness, we took a different approach for the New Hall.

To avoid the “big box” effect, the New Hall consists of three individual elements, one on top of the other, each projecting over the street in varying degrees, and allowing them to respond to different urban conditions.

From each point of view – whether from the Riehenring, Messeplatz or Riehenstrasse – the New Hall offers a different perception every time and thus avoids the monotony of uniform facade lines.

To provide indoor connection to all exhibition halls, the new building bridges over the Messeplatz and creates a covered public space, perhaps comparable to a railway station concourse or indoor market, realized in a modern design language.

This key architectural and urban planning element defines the south end of the Messeplatz and is illuminated from above by a generous circular opening.

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Colour #metallic
Material #aluminium
Function #entertainment #venue
Address: Messepl. 10, 4005 Basel, Switzerland
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*️⃣MAAT: Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology

Architect #AL_A
City #Lisbon
Country #Portugal #EU

🔤MAAT is an outward-looking museum located on the banks of the Tagus in Belém, the district from where the Portuguese great explorers set off.

Blending structure into landscape, the kunsthalle is designed to allow visitors to walk over, under and through the building that sits beneath a gently expressed arch – one of the oldest forms in western architecture. #context

Building on Portugal’s rich tradition of craft and ceramics, three-dimensional crackle glazed tiles articulate the façade and produce a complex surface that gives mutable readings of water, light and shadow. The overhanging roof that creates welcome shade is used to bounce sunlight off the water and into the building.

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Colour #white
Material #ceramic
Function #public #museum
Feature #adminvisited
Address: Av. Brasília, 1300-598 Lisboa, Portugal
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