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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Can architecture to solve the Palestinian issue?!

I do not understand the mystery of always waiting for solutions that comes from the outside at all, especially when it comes to the issue of ideological and religious such as the Palestinian issue. But in any case, far from Oslo or the Road Map, Annapolis, or even Zimbabwe, going to see this time a different vision and a bit weird to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict through the architecture!!
The student has Viktor Ramos from Rice University, USA, to develop a vision for design thinks that the only solution to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.
In that, instead of digging tunnels and create separation walls, suggests a huge residential building bridges over the Palestinian territories so as to ensure these bridges freedom of movement of equipment and food and everything one needs to live in peace!!! .. Thus nine space both Israelis and Palestinians, and prevent friction among them!!
It is clear that the idea of trying to help neutrally, without knowing that it magnifies the problem!!! Because instead of paying the Israelis to get out of the Palestinian territories, mixture will occupy Palestinian heaven too!!
Do not ask this idea seriously at all as a solution to the conflict between us and Israel, because essentially an ideological conflict, and will not have a solution but also dogma, but the idea of innovative design in general, and could solve the housing crisis hustle in small towns.
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Source: BldgBlog

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Anara Tower .. New masterpiece in Dubai

Back again with the towers of Dubai, to talk about the design of him said a news sites that may be absolutely splendid design in Dubai so far.
Where Tameer Holding has unveiled the design of Anara Tower, which will be created in the Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, which will reach a height of 125 floors (about 700 meters), and will be implemented by the British company Atkins.
Course Sttsaelon: 700 meters or did not reach up to a height of Burj Dubai (more than 800 meters) shorter between each towers that we talked about earlier.
Yes indeed, but is characterized by Anara Tower by several other points:
The tower will contain private gardens every 27 according as it appears in the stunning image:

Forming glass wonderful looks at the top of Tower Anara will be a restaurant, which would be its advantage only only is to provide fun eating at a height of 700 meters, but will give you also fun stunning panoramic views of the highlights of the city of Dubai, such as Dubai Marina, in addition to its proximity to marketing plush facilities, restaurants and places of holidays and recreation.

Says Ghassan Skhina CEO of Tameer Holding: "summed design idea that" noble art stems from the great vision, where a tower Anara just a masterpiece, but will focus on strengthening the levels of well-being that will enjoy the inhabitants of this project, which is expected to turn into a kiss the attention of researchers for housing modern luxury. "
The project will have a mix of luxury apartments ranging in size between one room and two and three bedroom apartments. In addition to a super luxury apartments, will contain each and every one of them a private elevator and a private swimming pool!!!, And is expected to be the most expensive in Dubai at all (and most expensive in the Middle East as a whole, of course).
Tower design complies with the requirements of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), and will contain in addition to the above areas allocated to retail stores and to the role of fashion and style, in addition to the apartments will be charged a prominent global name in the world of luxury hospitality.

It is worth noting that the British firm Atkins is a company that has designed the Burj Al Arab and the Bahrain Center building trade and Teda Tower.
And plans to move its headquarters reconstruction and its main offices to manage its operation around the world to the tower when it is completed to reflect the belief of the resounding success of this project will achieve.
Of course there is a bit dark side of the picture, which is the technical side harder as we mentioned in the draft tower formerly Madinat Jumeirah, which is how you will communicate that high welfare to all rooms and roles within this building.
And if designers resort usual sources of energy will definitely be a major financial disaster.
Source: Urbanity

Photos city in the bottom of the lake

This amazing image of the city in the middle of the water. It is not on the island, but below the level of the surface of the water. The city is a city of ancient archaeological dating back to the fourth century BC in Bulgaria and called Seuthopolis, and was the capital of the State of called Odricia.

Have been discovered for the first time in 1948. After building a new dam in this region filled with lake water as a result of this dam, becoming the city under the level of the surface of the water about 20 meters, but six years later the dam collapsed around them and filled with water to become overwhelmed by the middle of the lake.

The work is now on the city again revealed through a most amazing engineering projects ever, where the dam will be built a stunning circular with a diameter of 1377 feet and at an altitude of 65 feet, then dump inside the dam area of the water to reveal the city.

For more photos:
Source: eikongraphia

Center city Haxa in China

Do you remember the design of the plane of the city Office of MAD architect who reported him at the time that its name :)?

This time with a new design for this architectural office, but in conjunction with the 11 architectural last no lesser craziest apparently, where the Office of MAD invited to design center city Haxa in Guiyang, China.

Featuring city scenic, next to many cultural manifestations various Throughout its history, and therefore put the Chinese government plans to develop the area for the development of financial centers and tourist and cultural, which stimulate the Office MAD to work workshop lasted for three days in the summer of 2008 to develop a vision for the design center City, he took every office design its own part in the design through his vision of the culture and the nature of that region, and the result was striking: a set of separate buildings, which seem to have grown from nature to be assembled in a way that represents the cultural difference to that region.

Regardless of architectural and aesthetic that looks very distinctive, Remember these pictures score a banana with tomatoes in a blender

For more pictures of the different buildings within the city:

Source: DesignBoom

To Ilibad .. City floating on the surface of the water

We saw earlier project city, which lies at the bottom of a lake, but it seems that this city will suffer a big problem in Almsqubl, where the group announced international monitoring climate change forecast for a century atheist twenty, and that is reminiscent of the most optimistic that the level of water in the oceans will rise this century of between 20 to 90 cm as a result of global warming, compared to only 10 cm during the twentieth century.
Based on these alarming figures presented the Belgian architect Vincent Kalibant quite impressive design of the city perched on the water and can accommodate 50 thousand people from seeking safe from the consequences of global warming.
As is the case with most of the cities of the future will be this city feature a self-sufficient farms and factories and schools next to their ability to recycle waste.

Covering all surfaces and the walls of the city with green plants and cannabis while a mid-city oasis of palm, there is the bottom environment for aquatic plants.

It is expected Vincent to turn this design into reality in the year 2100 (unfortunately) to form a shelter real humanity of climate change, but unfortunately can this city accommodate 50 thousand people only, if we look at the world's population now, and which exceeds the 7 billion people, produce three, of course, that person is capable of living in this city will be the same person is able to buy a mobile phone of one million dollars
This group of other pictures of the city:

Source: FreshHome

Design Ansan City in South Korea

We saw in an earlier design of the city center the Chinese Haxa Office MAD architect with 11 other office, and this time we will see the design of the city of Ansan in South Korea for the same architectural office in collaboration with three other offices.

Where the MAD office in cooperation with the Office of the BIG INABA and mass studies provide a vision for the form of Ansan City was offered at Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in the city, which will continue until February 15, 2009.

The new design not less than its predecessor surprising, but most exciting feature in this design is that it (he says stylists) is able to resize it to adapt to change funding without affecting its shape, meaning that it was designed all units and buildings so that they are subject to reduction at low financing without constitute any aesthetic problem, and vice versa when increased funding could also increase the size of the design without compromising its aesthetic form, so that he can maintain the same look even less funding to 60%!!!
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Cactus building in Doha

The Office of Aesthetic Architects GO Group in Bangkok architect work very distinctive design for the building of the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning in Doha, Qatar.

Design comes as you see in the form of cacti, and will be (Like all future designs) a friend of the environment. Where the building will be able to provide all of its energy needs through clean energy sources such as solar energy, next to it contains the Dome of the internal plant inside.

It is worth mentioning that this project will be part of a larger project, the Energy City project, which will be the first city in the world built just for energy and will fall northeast of Doha, which will be the volume of investments in which nearly $ 2.6 billion.

For more photos:

Source: TheDesignBlog

Towers pixels .. Klaket second time

After that we saw a while ago design pixel Towers in Denmark, this time with no less design splendor of a candidate because buildings wins design competition exhibition World Expo 2010 in China next year.

Carrying this logo design "my dream ... Vision ", and is characterized by the distinctive characteristics of Singapore: an effective and dynamic character and holds a global vision.

Designed by the architectural design office Design Act, which is located in Singapore, and it seems as if a cloud consisting of 3866 digital and unit Mkaaahib, with varying degrees of transparency to use as much natural light as possible, to produce a wide field of vision.

I do not know whether this design will turn to the fact or not, but I think that the vision of a building like this on the ground will be something very special, certainly

This is another group of images:

Source: inhabitat