*️⃣Morpheus Hotel

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

🔤Informed by the fluid forms within China’s rich traditions of jade carving, the Morpheus’ design combines dramatic public spaces and generous guest rooms with innovative engineering and formal cohesion.

The design resolves the hotel’s many complex programmes within a single cohesive envelope. Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) was commissioned to build the hotel in 2012. At that time, foundations were already in place of a condominium tower that did not progress.

The building’s #steel exoskeleton optimizes the interiors by creating spaces that are uninterrupted by supporting walls or columns.

Viviana Muscettola, ZHA's project director explains, "Morpheus combines its optimal arrangement with structural integrity and sculptural form. The design is intriguing as it makes no reference to traditional architectural typologies.

Project was selected by #Archdaily as the building of the year in hospitality category in 2019. #award

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Function #hospitality #hotel
Feature: #skyscraper
Address: 4HX8+XJ Cotai, Macao

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*️⃣University Campus UTEC Lima

Architect #Grafton architects
City #Lima
Country #Peru #SA

🔤The unique condition of Lima and its relationship to the Pacific, with cliffs defining the boundary between the city and the sea, was a starting point in the conception of this project. A green valley connects the site with the sea. The UTEC campus project is conceived as a ‘new cliff’, continuing the sea edge, clearly stating and defining the University on its new ground. #context

While the north face acts as a ‘cliff’ or ‘shoulder’ to the outer world - the fast-moving city - the south faces cascades as a series of gardens.

Project was selected by #RIBA as the best building in international category in 2016. #award

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Material #rawconcrete
Function #education
Address: Jr. Medrano Silva 165, Barranco 15063, Peru
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*️⃣Geology Museum

Architect #EstudioMMX #MMX
City #Progeso close to #Merida
Country #Mexico #NA

🔤The design of the volumes and their arrangement in the public space generate routes accompanied by light, shade, and vegetation, providing the square with a new character rich in surprises and spatial experiences that evoke ideas of Mayan architecture, while also recalling the urban layouts of the colonial period and the tradition of the Mayan plot. #context

The urban space extends to the roofs, starting at street level from two opposite corners of the building; as the habitable volumes increase in level progressively, so does the generated route over them. Like terraces accompanied by suspended gardens, these upper paths intertwine to offer new experiences and views from different heights over the site, as well as to connect the cultural space with the urban space.

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Colour #tan
Material #concrete
Function #public #museum
Feature #interior #greenery
Address: C. 19 142, Boulevard Turístico Malecón, 97320 Progreso, Yuc., Mexico
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*️⃣Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa and The Silo Hotel

Architect #Heatherwick #ThomasHeatherwick
City #CapeTown
Country #SouthAfrica #AF

🔤Cape Town’s prominent grain silo was once used to store and grade maize from all over South Africa. But with the advent of containerised shipping, the huge piece of concrete infrastructure was decommissioned and in need of a new purpose.

The studio’s solution was to carve out a large central space from the cellular concrete structure to form a major social space that reveals the original intersecting geometries in an unexpected way. The perimeter tubes were then substantially cut back and converted into five floors of galleries for permanent and temporary exhibitions.

In the grading tower, concrete walls were cut away between the structural frame to create new three dimensionally shaped windows that reflect a kaleidoscope of textures and colours that change throughout the day. At night, the glow of lights inside transform the tower into a beacon in the harbor.

Project was selected by #Archdaily as the building of the year in cultural category in 2018. #award

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Material #rawconcrete
Function #public #museum #hospitality #hotel
Feature #refurbishment #interior
Address: V&A Waterfront Silo District, S Arm Rd, Waterfront, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
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*️⃣Beijing Olympic stadium

Architect #HerzogdeMeuron #HdM #Herzog #Meuron
City #Beijing
Country #China #AP

🔤Significantly, the Chinese themselves nicknamed the stadium “Bird‘s Nest” in the very early stages of the project, thereby essentially assimilating it as their own, before it had even left the drawing board.

What is seen from afar as a geometrically clear-cut and rational overall configuration of lines, evaporates the closer one comes, finally separating into huge separate components. The components look like a chaotic thicket of supports, beams and stairs, almost like an artificial forest.

To make the roof weatherproof, the spaces in the structure of the stadium are filled with a translucent membrane, just as birds stuff the spaces between the woven twigs of their nests with soft filler.

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Colour #red
Material #rawconcrete
Function #entertainment #sport
Address: 1 Guojiatiyuchang S Rd, Chaoyang, China, 100101
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