Fendi, an Italian designer of fashionable merchandise collaborated with the Belgian designer Maarten de Ceulaer to create “Transformations” as part of the performance programme at Design Miami, the global forum for design.

Zaha Hadid’s proposal to design the 80,000 seat, New National Stadium in Tokyo has been accepted. The structure which will replace the “Kasumigaoka National Stadium”, which hosted the 1964 summer Olympics will have elevated ground connections that will govern the flow of people through the site, while effectively carving the geometric forms of the building, […]

Computer-controlled sunscreens featured on two of the strangest-looking towers in Abu Dhabi have helped the buildings to win an international award for innovation.

The brief was to create a building that maximised the connection with the view and the sea, create a garden on the mountain side of the site and to minimise views over neighbouring buildings.

When building interiors offer abundant daylight and views of the outdoors, the people inside thrive. Research proves it. Workers are more productive, students learn better, and patients heal faster.

  The ‘London Aquatics Centre’ for the London 2012 Summer Olympics by Zaha Hadid Architects is capable of accomodating 17,500. This facility will be the venue for the swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo events. The eyecatching feature of this building is the double curvature parabolic structure visually evoking the form of an undulating […]

  Recipient of A lifetime Achievement Award for Consistent Presence within the Profession The eminent Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira has been chosen to be the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 13th International Architecture Exhibition – Common Ground (Venice, Giardini and Arsenale, August 29th – November 25th, 2012). The decision […]

  The first Olympic venue to be completed officially handed over to the Olympic Delivery Authority is the ‘2012 Olympic Velodrome’. The 6,000-seat indoor facility features a distinct, double-curve roof. The integrated design team of the project explored the ergonomic nature of the bike and aimed to apply the same aspect of engineering into the […]