The OMA-designed Taipei Performing Arts Centre – a theatre complex centred around a transparent cube – has topped out today in the Taiwanese capital (+ slideshow). First unveiled by Rem Koolhaas’…
The angular concrete form of the OMA-designed Qatar National Library in Doha has been photographed by several Instagram users, ahead of its imminent completion. Architect: OMA Project Location: Qatar Rem Koolhaas’ firm has disclosed…
Dutch firm MVRDV has designed an entertainment complex featuring inverted facades and a huge blob of gold, which will be built in Seoul, South Korea, ahead of the 2018 Winter…
Construction is well underway on a 207-metre skyscraper by Zaha Hadid Architects in Beijing, which will feature a huge twisting atrium that is expected to be the world’s tallest. Located in the Lize Financial Business…
Designer Thomas Heatherwick has won planning permission to convert a Victorian coal yard in London’s King’s Cross into a canal-side shopping destination. Located next to Regent’s Canal, Coal Drops Yard will include approximately 65…
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has unveiled its design for a new library in Christchurch, New Zealand, to replace the building left wrecked after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes (+ slideshow). The Danish firm is…
Snøhetta has finally unveiled its competition-winning design to create a new public library wrapping around a functioning railway line in the Canadian city of Calgary (+ slideshow). Working in partnership with Calgary firm Dialog, Snøhetta saw…
BIG’s Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant, which is currently under construction in Copenhagen, will blow rings of smoke and feature a 31,000-square-metre ski slope on its roof. “One of the things…
In order to serve its rapidly expanding population of more than five million, the ArRiyadh Development Authority has commissioned Zaha Hadid Architects to construct the new King Abdullah Financial District…
New on the architectural scene is the passenger terminal of Franjo Tudman Zagreb Airport, now impressively inaugurated in the finale to the big international competition of 2008 that attracted 17 entries, including…