Firstly opened in 1950 and with its 110 km long tunnels is the Stockholm´s metro being called “the longest art gallery in the world”. Visitors of Moscow´s subway might be against, but the prove for creativity of Swedish builders cannot be taken away! The originality of the artistic approach towards the exposed rocks of the metro tunnels takes the breath away… Check it out yourself!
Make university building a place “where knowledge grows” is always a challenge. Foster and Partners found a solution how to secure creative atmosphere in their project for Free University in Berlin! Quick highlight to inspire you! Imagine your university like this…
For those of you who use ArchiCad 15, maybe you were wondering about the building in the startup screen of the program… I know I did, and I wanted to know more about the house. So after a day of looking I found it and I can present you with short description of it and some more angles of its beautiful design.
The Shell house, Opening screen of ArchiCAD 15
Everyone is flying home before Christmas and every international airport gets really busy and crowded. Did you ever stop for a while and think of construction of such an airport?
Imagine you´re an architect: what shape would you choose, what general arrangement to fulfill all functions and flows of such building. Pictures from the Aeroflot magazine 2011 are showing the floor plans of the most famous airports. Take a look!
PARIS: Charles de Gaule
What kind of “Big Apple” would New York be if they would not think green in their urbanistic plans?! The old railway between 10th and 11th avenue in Manhattan have been transformed into an amazing park- as many people call it: oasis of calm.
©Iwan Baan 2009, resource: http://www.thehighline.org
