*️⃣Asia Financial Center & AIIB Headquarters

Architect #gmp Architekten
City #Beijing
Country #China #AP

🔤The symmetrical building has been developed from the inside out and closes the central axis through the Olympic quarter. With its stacked, meandering volumes, the structure takes a leaf out of the book of traditional Chinese timber construction.

This complex, open internal landscape reinforces the transparency of AIIB and the “sense of unity” of the over 100 nations who want to jointly design their future: the naturally lit inner courtyards serve as shared, informal meeting zones.

At the same time, the open sky decks with their varied thematic planting symbolize “gardens of the world”: three of the nine courtyards have been laid out in accordance with traditional Chinese garden design.

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Colour #tan
Function #office
Feature #interior
Address: China, 与 Kehui S Rd, CN 北京市 朝阳区 天辰东路交叉口西北角 邮政编码: 100107

*️⃣Guangxi Culture & Arts Center

Architect #gmp Architekten
City #Nanning
Country #China #AP

🔤Depending on the viewpoint, the silhouette of the building changes dynamically, evoking associations with the natural karst formations that are so typical of the Guangxi landscape.

The three venue buildings are unified by a shared, seemingly floating roof. Similar to the facades, it appears as a large structure of louvers, which has been constructed with a steel frame substructure and white folded aluminum panels as cladding.

In this way, the brilliant white of the theater venue makes it stand out from the surroundings, emphasizing the confident statement as a cultural center.

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Colour #white
Material #aluminium
Function #entertainment #venue
Address: Q9G9+JFQ, Liangqing District, Nanning, Guangxi, China, 530021

*️⃣CopenHill Energy Plant

Architect #BIG #BjarkeIngels #Ingels
City #Copenhagen
Country #Denmark #EU

🔤CopenHill opens as a new waste-to-energy plant topped with a ski slope, hiking trail and climbing wall, embodying the notion of #sustainability.

The internal volumes of the power plant are determined by the precise positioning and organization of its machinery in height order, creating an efficient, sloping rooftop fit for a 9,000m2 ski terrain. Skiers ascend the park from the platter lift, carpet lifts or glass elevator for a glimpse inside the 24-hour operations of a waste incinerator.

Recreation buffs and visitors reaching the summit of CopenHill will feel the novelty of a mountain in an otherwise-flat country. Meanwhile, the 10,000m2 green roof addresses the challenging micro-climate of an 85m high park, rewilding a biodiverse landscape while absorbing heat, removing air particulates and minimizing stormwater runoff.

Project was selected by #Archdaily as the best building in industrial category in 2020. #award

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Colour #metallic
Material #steel
Function #mixeduse #industrial #other #entertainment #sport
Feature #greenery
Address: Vindmøllevej 6, 2300 København, Denmark
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*️⃣Marsk tower

Architect #BIG #BjarkeIngels #Ingels
City #Skaebaek
Country #Denmark #EU

🔤The 25-meter-high Marsk Tower – translated as “Marsh Tower” due to its location in the marshlands of Denmark’s popular National Park, Wadden Sea. The tower’s simple design, defined by Corten steel materiality, exudes a natural aesthetic that blends with the surrounding environment.

“Because of the earth curvature, visitors will gradually expand their view of the horizon while walking to the top of the tower. On the foot of the tower, you will be able to see 4 km into the distance, but from the top of the tower the view is expanded to an 18 km view into the horizon,” says Jakob Lange, Architect and Partner, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group.

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Material #corten
Function #public #observation
Address: Hjemstedvej 60, 6780 Skærbæk, Denmark
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*️⃣Palazzo Mondadori

Architect #OscarNiemeyer #Niemeyer
City #Milan
Country #Italy #EU

🔤When Georgio Mondadori, chairman of the Italian publishing house Mondadori, commissioned Niemeyer to design the company’s new headquarters in 1968, he wanted the building to look like the Itamaraty Palace (also known as Palace of the Arches) in Brasília. Niemeyer agreed, but given his playful spirit, he deliberately deviated from the earlier design and proceeded to build what he would later identify as his favorite of the projects he completed in Europe.

"Whoever goes to see the Mondadori headquarters remains astonished because nobody has ever seen a colonnade in which the arches are different from each other” elaborated Niemeyer in an interview, as he talked about the importance of, and his love for, the element of surprise in architecture.

The central concrete volume and its colonnades along with the two adjacent sweeping volumes are reflected in the surrounding pool, and this is perhaps what the photographer’s eye delights in most when capturing Niemeyer’s beloved building. #water

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Material #rawconcrete
Function #office
Feature #retro
Address: Via Arnoldo Mondadori, 1, 20054 Milano MI, Italy
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text by Archdaily, Arch2o.com and allcadblocks.com