*️⃣Issam Fares Institute

Architect #Hadid #ZahaHadid #ZHA
City #Beirut
Country #Lebanon #ME

🔤In 2006, the competition jury selected ZHA’s proposal to build the new institute. The design significantly reduces the building’s footprint by ‘floating’ much of the IFI’s facilities above the entrance courtyard to preserve the existing landscape integral to the 2002 master-plan and create a new public space for the campus.

A ramp leads between the trees to connect the research lounges on the second floor directly with the campus. The Issam Fares Institute building is defined by the many routes and connections interweaving the pathways and views within the campus to create a forum for the exchange of ideas at the heart of the university.

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Material #rawconcrete
Function #education
Feature #cantilever
Address: VFXH+XWG, Beirut, Lebanon
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*️⃣Katara towers

Architect #Dar #DarAlHandasah
City #Lusail
Country #Qatar #ME

🔤Symbolically intertwined with Qatar’s heritage, the Katara Towers in Lusail are an architectural translation of Qatar’s national seal, representing the traditional scimitar swords.

The two five-star hotels in the Katara Towers were opened in 2022 when Qatar hosted the 2022 FIFA World Cup. One tower houses the Raffles Doha Hotel, while the other contains the Fairmont Doha Hotel and they are jointly managed under one management team.

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Function #hospitality #hotel
Feature #skyscraper
Address: 9GQJ+RJF marina, Lusail, Qatar
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*️⃣The Interlace

Architect #RemKoolhaas #Koolhaas #OMA and #OleScheeren #Scheeren
Country #Singapore #AP

🔤The interlocking blocks create a multitude of shared outdoor spaces, forming a dramatic topography of inhabitable terraced gardens across the stepped volumes. Partly resting, partly floating, the blocks hover on top of each other to form an expressive “interlaced” space that connects the individual apartments with an accessible and inclusive community life.

The landscape design capitalizes on the generous size of the eight-hectare site and further maximizes the presence of nature. By stacking the apartment blocks, the design generates a multiplication of horizontal surfaces populated by extensive roof gardens and landscaped terraces that in aggregate provide 112% green area – more than the size of the unbuilt site.

Water bodies have been strategically placed within defined wind corridors, which allow evaporative cooling to happen along wind paths, reducing local air temperatures and improving the thermal comfort of outdoor recreation spaces in strategic micro-climate zones. #sustainability

Project was selected by #WAF as the best building of the year 2015. #award

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Colour #monochrome
Material #concrete
Function #residential
Address: 180 Depot Rd, #01-02 The Interlace, Singapore 109684
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*️⃣Museo Internacional del Barroco

Architect #Ito #ToyoIto
City #Puebla close to #MexicoCity
Country #Mexico #NA

🔤To frame the main facade of the museum a large square has been designed which receives the incoming visitors. Facade will also receive night time projections of images related to current exhibitions, which also illuminate the museum and make it stand out from a distance.

In this extensive patio, dominating the space we can find a large fountain designed as a swirling water motif. In the Baroque, moving water is a recurring theme; in the MIB it is a metaphor for the 'generation' of the museum.

As part of the structural strategy, the museum is a single rigid volume, giving the building earthquake resistant qualities. The foundation transmits vertical loads on the ground filler compacted soils.

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Colour #white
Material #concrete
Function #public #museum
Feature #water
Address: 2Q93+PF Puebla, Mexico
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*️⃣Astramline Shin-Hakushima Station

Architect #Coelacanth #CA
City #Hiroshima
Country #Japan #AP

🔤Located within a network of civil scale structures with a bridge and one-sided three-lane highways, the station is enclosed from the heavy traffic on both sides by cylindrical shaped shell. The shell consists of a three-dimensional curved surface of a ribbed #steel plate with a thickness of 9 mm.

The platform, located on the first basement floor, is a space seamlessly integrated with the ground, by wiring the station facilities under the floor and receiving the earth pressure of the box culvert on the track with the new U-shaped civil engineering structure.

Light and shadow show different expression depending on time, weather and seasons. "As a result, we were able to realize a bright platform space filled with natural light, which is rare as an underground station.

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Colour #white
Function #transportation #metro
Feature #interior
Address: Japan, 〒730-0005 広島県広島市中区西白島町154-1
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