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$1 Billion American Embassy in London

Posted By Guest on February 28, 2010

New $1 billion American embassy to be built in London
$1 Billion American Embassy in London

The United States has unveiled plans for its new $1 billion high-security American embassy in London — the most expensive it has ever built.Read More

Award for Amsterdam Library Design

Posted By Lisa McNear on November 30, 2009

University Library of the University of Amsterdam by Studio Roelof Mulder and Bureau Ira Koers
Award for Amsterdam Library Design

Amsterdam designers Studio Roelof Mulder and Bureau Ira Koers have won the Serve and Facilitate (Public) Great Indoors Award for their project University Library of the University of Amsterdam.Read More

China Central Television Headquarters

Posted By Guest on November 20, 2009

China Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters

CCTV‘s new headquarters in Beijing wears its engineering on its sleeve. So complex is this 768-foot-tall anti-skyscraper that the architects, the Netherlands-based Office of Metropolitan Architecture, chose to show off the structural seams for visual effect.Read More

Transparent Concrete Walls

Posted By Guest on October 12, 2009

See Through Concrete Walls

Litracon is a see-through concrete developed by Hungarian architect Aron Losonczi. Filled with optical fibers that run from one end of a poured piece of concrete to the other, these prefabricated blocks and panels effectively transmit light from one side to the other.Read More

Drive-In Automobile Museum

Posted By Jake Easton on October 12, 2009

Drive-In Automobile Museum

This is the project winner of the international invitation competition for the construction of the Automobile Museum in Nanjing, designed by Italy-based architects 3GATTI to explore the relationship between car and museum.Read More