LIGHTING EFFECTIVE

London and Tbilisi firm Architects of Invention has completed a public services building on stilts for a city that doesn’t exist yet in Georgia. The striking Municipality Building located in the new city of Lazika, Georgia, is a landmark designed to spearhead the development of a whole new city with major regional significance. Building on the success of the Prosecutors Office, Engenuiti has partnered once again with Architects of Invention to design and develop this challenging new office building…

The New Deutsche Bank put high goals, not only in the financial sector. In 2005, the company has developed for itself a climate strategy in which it promises to design from 2013 to its operational processes carbon neutral, this of course includes the existing buildings. Ambitious introduction to this topic, the bank ventured same with its corporate headquarters, the German bank towers in Frankfurt…

The office tower designed by Christoph Ingenhoven (ingenhoven architects) and Ray Brown (Architectus) is the winner of this year’s International Highrise Award. The modern style office building is located in the Sydney central business district overlooking Circular Quay, the Sydney Harbour and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. 1 Bligh redefines the future of the workplace. It offers a rare opportunity to enjoy premium grade accommodation in a superb location with world’s best practice sustainability and a design that enhances collaboration…

Designed by Urban Arts Projects (UAP), A 60m high ‘Breakwater Beacon’ centrepiece of a $7bn research institution for the King Abdullah University for Science & Technology (KAUST), overlooking the Red Sea in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The Australia based designers have drawn inspiration from Arabic maritime traditions…

Hotel Refugia, designed by mobile arquitectos is a hotel designed and built to be one more element of the natural landscape. Its simple, natural, first-class architecture is a harmonious combination of traditional Chiloé craftsmanship and modern design, employing fine woods with a cutting-edge vision that simply astonishes visitors. The construction mimics the natural environment, becoming a part of the landscape without altering it, and evoking the island’s solid and ancient culture…

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV have just completed a new 9,300 square metre library in Spijkenisse, a small city close to Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Under a glass ceiling, the building features a striking volume of shelves, a true “book mountain”. The book platforms are connected via wide stairs and together form a continuous route to the peak, which features a café…

The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Hadid, the 46,000-square-foot Broad Art Museum at MSU features a striking façade of pleated stainless steel and glass, distinguishing the building from the traditional brick Collegiate Gothic north campus, and signaling the museum and the university’s forward-looking approach…