*️⃣DJI Sky City

Architect #Foster #NormanFoster
City #Shenzhen
Country #China #AP

🔤Starting with the goal of becoming the "heart of innovation," Sky City underwent hundreds of design proposals before determining the concept of an asymmetrical suspended steel structure representative of the high-tech Foster + Partners aesthetic. Two high-rise towers – 44 and 40 stories, respectively – are joined via skybridge.

At 213 meters tall, DJI Sky City gives the appearance of a building floating above the ground. The suspended blocks are carried by megatrusses and steel suspension tubes connected to round cross-sections at their corners, with the maximum overhang of the blocks reaching 21.5 meters. The structural system serves both a load-bearing purpose and exposed aesthetic element, achieving a high degree of unity between space, structure, and form.

According to Young Chiu, the lead architect of the project:
“Sky City's massing and structure are honest and exposed, with rich expression from the inside and out . The aesthetic is unadorned, simple and clean, It is minimal but warm, quiet and yet elegant.”

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Colour: #grey
Material: #steel
Function #office
Feature #cantilever #skyscraper
Address: China, CN 广东省 深圳市 南山区 文心五路 32 32号保利文化广场A2-01 邮政编码: 518064

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pics by #Fangfang
text by Archdaily

*️⃣Louvre Lens

Architect #SANAA
City #Lens
Country #France #EU

🔤It is reminiscent of the Louvre palace, with its wings laid almost flat. The architects wanted to bring to mind boats on a river coming together to dock gently with each other. The facades are in polished aluminum, in which the park is reflected, ensuring continuity between the museum and the surrounding landscape.

The Japanese architects from SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa wanted to avoid creating a dominating fortress, opting instead for a low, easily accessible structure that integrates into the site without imposing on it by its presence.

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Colour #metallic
Material #aluminium
Function #public #museum
Address: 99 Rue Paul Bert, 62300 Lens, France
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pics by #JulienLanoo
text by Archdaily

*️⃣Tainan Spring

Architect #MVRDV
City #Tainan
Country #Taiwan #AP

🔤Tainan’s water network served as the basis for the city’s marine and fishing industry since the 17th century, but the 1980s saw the city depart from this historic urban approach. China-Town Mall was built on top of the old harbour next to the Tainan Canal in 1983.

The China-Town mall has been removed and meticulously recycled, making the project an innovative example of the circular economy. The foundations of the former mall stick out of the park and the lagoon like a contemporary Roman Forum, offering a visual marker of the historical decision to close a port in favour of a mall. #refurbishment

The pool has been carefully planned to be a perfect gathering spot for all seasons: the water level will rise and fall in response to the rainy and dry seasons, and in hot weather mist sprayers will reduce the local temperature to provide welcome relief to visitors, reducing the use of air conditioning in the summer months.

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Material #rawconcrete
Function #public #community
Address: No. 343-20號, Jhongjheng Rd, West Central District, Tainan City, Taiwan 700
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pics by #Scagliola
text by Archdaily

*️⃣National Taichung Theatre / Metropolitan Opera House

Architect #Ito #ToyoIto
City #Taichung
Country #Taiwan #AP

🔤The opera house features a series of hourglass wells in its facade, which are filled with gridded glazing to frame views of the city from terraces within. Inside, cavernous hollows based on bodily orifices contain stairwells, lobbies and auditoria. Bright white walls are offset by areas of bright red carpeting and paintwork.

"I aimed to create the architecture of this opera house in such a way that the inside and outside are continuous in a like manner to how bodies are connected to nature through organs such as the mouth, nose, and ears," explained Toyo Ito.

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Colour #white
Material #shotcrete
Function #entertainment #theatre #concerthall
Feature #interior
Address: No. 101號, Section 2, Huilai Rd, Xitun District, Taichung City, Taiwan 407025

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pics by #IwanBaan
text by Dezeen

*️⃣Viceroy Los Cabos (ex. Mar Adentro)

Architect #Aragones #MiguelAragones
City #SanJoseDelCabo
Country #Mexico #NA

🔤"The first time I visited this property and took in the desert and the diaphanous, clear water running along a horizontal line in the background, I felt the enormous drive of water under a scorching sun. This piece of land, located in the middle of a coastline dotted with “All Inclusives,” would have to be transformed into a box that contained its own sea –practically its own air– given the happy circumstance that the universe had created a desert joined to the sea along a horizontal line. It was the purest, most minimalist landscape a horizon could have drawn. On either side, this dreamlike scenery collided with what humans consider to be aesthetic and build and baptize as architecture."

Mar Adentro is a kind of Medina that opens out onto the sea. Each floating volume contains interiors that form, in turn, independent universes. Each room visually contains a piece of the sea; no one can resist gazing out at it.

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Colour #white
Function #hospitality #hotel
Feature #water
Address: P.º Malecon San Jose Lote 8, Zona Hotelera, 23405 San José del Cabo, B.C.S., Mexico
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pics by Joe Fletcher
text by Archdaily

#bonus@simoderna (the Westworld show had scenes filmed here)