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Calatrava's HS station in Reggio Emilia

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Hoover House, in downtown Phoenix, "a residential remodel which showcases a dialogue between the existing home, a 1920 Arts and Crafts bungalow, and the new 1400 square foot addition through experiences of thresholds, courtyards, and manipulation of light.". Via DESIGNSPOTTER.

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Competing against Daniel Libeskind and Massimiliano Fuksas, Zaha Hadid Architects have won the competition held by Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. Zaha Hadid’s futuristic designs match the cultural aims of the new Hermitage Guggenheim Vilnius Project.

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UNStudio create futuristic design for first Dubai Museum of Middle East Modern Art
Dubai is set to embark on a cultural journey as the realisation of UN Studio's Museum of Middle East Modern Art begins, the Ruler of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced this week. It will be the first museum of its kind in Dubai and will be located on the banks of Khor Dubai in Culture Village.

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Casa Kike is a small scheme punching way above its weight. Too many schemes get lost in second thoughts. Here success is dependent on the absolute simplicity of the initial diagram and a refusal by the architect to over-complicate it. Two buildings, each a parallelogram, are orientated so their sides are parallel to the boundaries of the site.

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Design for Pavillion

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Kunsthaus graz is an arts centre commissioned as the flagship of the Austrian city of Graz’s tenure as European city of culture for 2003, described by its architects as a “friendly alien”, it is perhaps the most extreme example of the “blob” style of architecture that was briefly fashionable at the turn of the millennium.

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i`m mahdi. i live in iran .here is no facilites to create new ideas.i`m studing Architecture and its one of my furniture designs

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Shanghai Dream.580m tall, It is a magnificant, majestic, supertall.... one of the best you will ever........... seen.!!!!

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While the idea of sleeping in a pipe might not immediately connote luxury in your mind, this hotel design turns concrete pipes into quite the comfortable space for your next overnight stay. Almost like glorified camping, the DasParkHotel is a series of individual hotel room pipes, set on a beautiful flora-filled backdrop just steps from the Danube River.
“The external simplicity surrounds an unexpectedly comfortable interior” as each pipe is outfitted with a bed, lighting, and other furniture, with bathroom and restaurant facilities shared in a public space. And what’s more, DasParkHotel obtains sanitation and other hotel facilities from existing public infrastructure, allowing them to operate on a “pay as you wish” system in which guests pay only what they can afford or wish to contribute. Now that’s some great communal living.

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Venue: National Aquatics Center
Location: Olympic Green (Search the map)
Total land surface: 79,532 sq m

The blue-colored National Aquatics Center (NAC), nicknamed the "Water Cube" and located by Beijing's North Fourth Ring Road, was inaugurated and delivered for use on the morning of January 28, 2008.

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Tod's Tokyo

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The Nestlé Chocolate factory in Mexico City's Paseo Tollocan near Toluca has never been a site anyone went to see for its beauty. It is what is inside that has always interested chocolate-lovers.

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The design is certainly a radical departure from the surrounding architecture, even more so then the iconic glass pyramid must have been when it was proposed. However, I dig it, and even find the gold embellishments of the skin panels somewhat "French" (like a modern Fleur-de-lis). As Daily Dose points out, there is also something Escher-like to the fluid yet geometric form of the building.

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Project for Istanbul, 2005/06: Compressed Complexity
Title: Vertical Shopping
Students: Mitterer Peter, Moroder Matthias
Studio Zaha M. Hadid, University of Applied Arts, Vienna

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Zaha Hadid's Expocentre exhibition halls and residential tower project in Russia
Closely located to the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC), the largest investment and construction project in Russia, and Europe as a whole, the Expocenter Project offers the city a new exposition venue, hotel, and residential development. The main function of the horizontal space is to house the exposition and conference halls. The exposition halls cantilever to the sides at the upper levels, providing for a snow-free outdoor event space; and concealing the traffic at the southern part of the building. Such a venue with 26,340 sqm net exhibition space, which is located in the center of Moscow, will be in high demand for such high-class exhibitions and events.

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The new building on Szervita square will enhance Budapest by providing a new landmark. Both building and Square are an iconic attraction for the inner city of the contemporary Budapest.

"Our goal is to give the inner city an injection of contemporary elegance. A state of the art building with high quality work spaces would strengthen the multifunctional character and urban vitality of Budapest’s city centre. We perceive the need to balance divers’ requirements: Keeping the importance of the cultural heritage in mind the issue is to reconcile the functional, economic and historic preservation needs of the city centre. We feel that aesthetic and atmospheric rejuvenation is always an essential part of preservation - preserving the vitality of a historic city centre. "

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The 2004 Pritzker Prize Zaha Hadid wins the international architectural competition for museum of mediterranean nuragic and contemporary art!The project for the museum at Cagliari (Sardinia - Italy) dedicated to Nuragic and contemporary art aims to make known and underline the value of an ancient civilisation that is as fascinating as it is little known.The richness of the remains from the Nuragic age, their variety of form - that ranges from small bronzes to large stone statues uncovered at Monti Prama, near Oristano (West Sardinia) - the force and originality of artistic expression that characterises them, compared by some to the finest from the twentieth century avant-garde, are yet to be fully understood and appreciated.

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Add Valencia, Spain, to the list of cities now constructing an iconic, sculptural sports stadium. Work began last March on a new 75,000-seat home for the local soccer squad. Designed by Reid Fenwick Asociados, with Arup Sport, it will be one of the largest and most eco-sensitive stadiums in Europe—and, its designers hope, a point of civic pride when it opens in 2009. “Football is such an emotional sport, it’s almost like a religion,” says architect Mark Fenwick, referring to European soccer. “We had to pack all of that emotion and feeling into a building that would be theirs and only theirs.”

Capacity: 75.000 seats
Scheduled inauguration: 2010
Cost: 300 million €
Internal skin: Structure finished in wooden battons
External skin: Glass and titanium

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Zaha Hadid Architects announce the design of the Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre:a new cultural institution for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation on behalf of the Tourism Development and Investment Company of Abu Dhabi (TDIC).Zaha Hadid unveiled the design of the new Performing Arts Centre at a press conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE today.

Via: dezeen.com

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The Opus will appear to hover from the ground. Constructed of three separate towers the building will appear as a singlular unified whole, with a distinctive void. The interiors of which will be clad with a fully engineered curved class curtain wall to allow for eye-catching views into the void. Reflexive fritting patterns in the form of pixilated striations will be applied onto the glass facade to provide a degree of reflectivity and materiality to the cube while assisting in the reduction of solar grains inside the building.

"The Opus project combines art and performance with form and functionality, the strategic location, stunning exterior and the extensive range of facilities make the Opus project a strategic buy for potential investors who can expect considerable returns on their investment" said Mehdi Amjad, president and CEO of Omniyat Properties.

The floor plan for the development is 1.7million sq ft and has over 22 stories of commercial and retail office space. The design includes 17 levels of office space, four levels of retail, a top floor relaxation area and roof garden as well as a five-story basement. The new 22-storey cubed shaped mixed use building has been described as setting new standards in a global context and makes a unique contribution to the business bay section of Dubai. Construction on the project is due to start later this year with an expected completion date of 2010.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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These enormous geodesic-domed greenhouses, part of an environmental complex in Cornwall, England, were originally supposed to be made of glass. But ETFE gave designers Grimshaw Architects a flexible, lightweight, and durable alternative. The result? An environment capable of housing plant species from around the world in tropical rainforest- and Mediterranean-style climates. At 323,000 square feet Eden was, at the time, the world’s largest ETFE project and remains a defining image of ETFE architecture.

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The new home for the Tacoma (Wash.) Harold E. LeMay Museum will house the largest privately owned collection of automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, and vehicle-related memorabilia in the world. The building’s design will visually echo the curved roofs found on vintage cars and will incorporate ETFE in its ceiling and walls. Los Angeles-based Grant Architects says the cavity between the ETFE and the museum’s exterior glass layer will function as a “smart wall,” circulating air to increase the insulating properties of the building.

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About a half-kilometer from the Watercube sits the “Bird’s Nest,” Herzog & de Meuron’s sinewy Olympics stadium. The project is one of contrasts, combining a muscular skeleton of entwined steel with soft ETFE cushions. The ETFE pillows will fill the spaces between the nest’s twigs, helping to weatherproof the structure.

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By Andrew Liszewski
The house was actually created and torn down in 2005.)