How to increase the private residence area?

Before the London architects of company Studioctopi there was an uneasy problem — the owner of a private residence in the Victorian style has ordered to expand a house premise, not destroying protogenic beauty and external shape.

Black zinc & glass

After numerous disputes with the customer and huge number of offers, architects have stopped on this variant from black zinc and glass.

Art pavilion from company Carmody Groarke

English architects of company Carmody Groarke have finished pavilion building in London.

Eight-metre light-emitting diode columns

The pavilion represents eight-metre columns with light-emitting diode lamps, with a steel three-metre plate on a top (!). The density of placing of columns is non-uniform, and in the centre they and at all are absent, opening the review on the sky.

Building Peter Mokaba Stadium is finished

At fans of football now on one joyful news more... Building Peter Mokaba Stadium — stadium in the city of Polokwane, capital of a province of Limpopo, the republic of South Africa — the basic platform for World championship carrying out on football 2010 Is finished!

Champion stadium in the republic of South Africa

Capacity of stadium: 45,000 places. Stadium forms are cast by flora traditional for district, namely, a plant a baobab. Elements of a design of a roof fasten special huge ramps. And durability of a design has been reached for the account of repetition of elements. Companies AFL Architects and local practice Prism also had been developed mechanisms of support of a roof.

The project of head office CBE

German architectural group Henn Architekten has won competition on the best civil-engineering design of head office Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) in Addis Ababa.

Unusual way of the organisation

Thin office building will be executed with optical effect of «presence of hollow structures» at change of a point of the review. For the account of such unusual way of organisation of base level of a building, some problems are reached — increased the areas of ground floors illuminated by natural light, interesting appearance of a design is created, is involved additional attention of visitors of the centre which bottom part it is planned to use as a trading complex that will cut expenses on building operation.

Olympic construction in Vancouver

Speed is an essence of competitions, sports, achievements, the basic component of Olympic games where compete: skiers, skaters, hockey players and other athletes. To accept the Winter Olympic Games this year, in Vancouver and district already existing buildings have been modernised and the new are constructed.

Cypress Mountain it is located around the western Vancouver. Competitions on freestyle and a snowboard Here will take place. For Games the new system on manufacture of snow and the water tank, new zones for spectators and a path for a parallel slalom has been constructed. Building of two stadiums has begun in May, 2006. In November of 2009, the platform for freestyle became the first constructed Olympic object.

Competitions on hockey will take place on two platforms, in Canada Hockey Place and on University of British Columbia Thunderbird Arena. For Olympic games has been converted Thunderbird Winter Sport Complex. The arena for competitions has been altered, is constructed two new ice skating rinks, one of which will be used for the competitions, the second — for trainings.

Has been constructed Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre where competitions on curling will take place. The new arena from 6,000 spectator places and the adjoining akva-centre has been constructed.

Pacific Coliseum in Hastings Park

Competitions on figure skating and a short-track will take place in Pacific Coliseum in Hastings Park. Restoration works in park have begun in 1994 year. 16,000 spectator places have been replaced, the ice covering has been expanded to the international standard. For high-speed driving 400 metre track in a building by a total area of 33,750 sq.m. has been constructed.

Mounting skiing resort Whistler is considered one of the best in the world, Whistler annually receives 2 million visitors. Here to the Olympic Games descents have been converted, the additional system on snow manufacture has been constructed.

Interior for sincere recover

The project of Japanese design bureau Nendo is an interior of clinic for insane persons which is in Tokyo. All these doors are continuous illusion. Patients and the personnel move on a building through special sections which open in walls.

Akasaka Clinic

The clinic is called MD.net Clinic Akasaka. Walls and book shelves behind which rooms for consultations and conversations disappear Here move.

Area of entertainments in Los Angeles

Building of a 54-storeyed tower in the centre of Los Angeles has ended. Hotels Ritz-Carlton Hotel both Residences and Marriott have opened the doors for visitors in a building designed by bureau Gensler.

Tower by L.A. LIVE

Tower building has finished project L.A. LIVE which assumed erection of the whole area for sports and entertainments, more sq.m. half-millions In a complex are located by the total area: TV-studio, restaurants, cafe, cinemas, bowling, clubs, an innovative musical museum.

Tower structure

The first 22 floors of a new tower are given Marriott, four following — to hotel Ritz-Carlton Hotel and all the others, to the top — to premises (Ritz-Carlton Residences). In the bottom building is placed two external "decks", with pools, bars and other services are equipped.