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Sancaklar Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey: Experience the Divinity

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There’s always a well-defined boundary between religious peace and worldly affair. That demarcation has symbolized in very detailed manner through Sancaklar Mosque . This mosque is more than a holy place for Islamic Community. It separates the outer word from higher powerful experience which one can feel. The simplicity and use of basic material in the construction has proved true to the concept of connection with nature. Sancaklar Mosque is situated in Buyuk Cekmece, which lies in Suburbs of Istanbul. It opened in 2012. The architectural design has given by Emre Arolat Architects lead by Emre Arolat. It has won Best Religious Building at the World Architecture Festival in 2013 and Best Building in Religious Architecture in 2015. Sancaklar Mosque covers 1050 m2 as total built up area while the main structure takes 700 square meters. The basic design of mosque is cave like structure from inside while the outer side is designed as encircling grey wide shallow steps. It lied...

Ribbon Chapel, Hiroshima, Japan: Where Unity of Souls take place

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Ribbon Chapel is situated in Hiroshima, Japan, designed by Japanese Architect Hiroshi Nakamura of NAP Architects. He conceptualized one of the soulful bond in his designing of this chapel i.e. marriage. It is absolutely evident from the high interlaced stairs of chapel which symbolizes the agreement of two souls going to heaven. Those white stairs coming out from opposite direction and intertwined with each other and become till it reach to the top. Ribbon Chapel is constructed in midst of a perfect location which proved as a best place for the manifestation of love. It is situated on the garden of Bella Vista Sakaigahama- a resort hotel in Onomichi, Hiroshima-comes with a beautiful background of hills and Japan’s Seto inland sea. It was opened in 2013.    The Ribbon chapel is 15.5 m high. Its construction took place over the site area of 2500 m2. It covers the area of 80.0 sqm. The stand out quality of Ribbon chapel is it’s single building which don’t has any...

Nine Bridges Country Club, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea: Craftily Innovative

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Fresh, open and creative- this is how one feels whenever one visits this place because it comes up with its own liveliness and peace, far from the usual busy hustle and bustle of city. Nine Bridges Country Club is the newly developed club house for premier golf course. It is only two hours far from Seoul if one drives by car. Precisely it is located in Yeoju-gun in Gyeonggi-do of South Korea. The project marks from 2009. It architectural design has given by Shigeru Ban Architects with architect in charge of Shigeru Ban Collaborator: KACI International, Inc. At very recent it has won the award of best building of 2015 in Hospitality Architecture. This club house covers 20977. 0 sqm as total built up area. It constitutes three buildings- accommodations VIP members, a VIP members area and regular members. All three has created from different material and with different patterns. The VIP members area is made from reinforced concrete while the VIP accommodation area is compo...

Hyatt Regency, Pune, Maharashtra: Comfort meets Style

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Hyatt Regency - located in Pune, Maharashtra- is a grand hotel consists of twin tower. Service Apartments and retail shops are part of the one tower and other one is serving as a Five Star business hotel. The core architects behind Hyatt Regency are Bilkey Linas Design (Principal architects), Joel Burega (Landscape architect) and Odyssey (Hardscape design). The intent behind the hotel was to create a structure which can suitable in tropical atmosphere that’s why the external area of hotel is designed especially materialize the vision of engaged architects.    Main material used in construction is natural stone and concrete. The entrance is designed by Bilkey Linus Designs and Joel Burega. Whole external area is the main highlight of hotel as it was carved very beautifully. Prime façade of twin tower is appareled with 5000 SQM of Jaisalmer Flower Limestone. The entrance is made with Black Granite and yellow Jaisalmer small cobble stone which sized 200 x 100 x 100 m...

Burntwood School, London, UK: Education Wins

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The best education today for the women of tomorrow- as follow by Burntwood School situated in London, UK which is a girl’s secondary school imparting female education since 1986. Recently one more feather has added to its cap. Burntwood has won RIBA Sterling award, UK’s most prestigious architect award. Being the winner of England’s leading architectural award, the design of school is contemporary, modern and engaging which provides a healthy and interactive environment for students. Burntwood School has opened in 1986 and gone through reconstruction in 2012. As part of reconstruction, six new building has replaced the old one. It has completed in 2014. Four Teaching pavilions, performing arts building, sports hall and a new look to the campus is the part of newly built school. The chief architect of Burntwood School is Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. The understanding behind the design is to create a structure which can bring both, delightful environment for learning minds and eff...

432 Park Avenue, New York City: Grandeur with Splendour

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432 Park Avenue located in New York is the tallest building in whole city. It reaches up to the height of 1,397 feet (426 meters). It is a residential building which is situated in Midtown Manhattan in New York. With the record of tallest building in New York and western hemisphere, it defeated One World Trade Center and Empire State Building. The construction of 432 Park Avenue has started on 2013 and expected to complete in 2015. The site where the building has taken place is one of the costly and posh areas of New York i.e. between East 56th and 57th Streets on the west side. It is developed by CIM group and Macklowe Properties, hands on architectural design has given by Rafael Vinoly. It consists of 88 floors with three below grounds and 104 condominium apartments. What subtly different about the skyline is that besides being the tallest and expensive, it only accommodate 104 condos. That shows how 432 Park Avenue defines class and luxury.  Due to its simp...

Dancing Building, Prague, Czech Republic: Creatively Challenging

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Dancing Building is the life size form of dancing couples which can clearly stands out amongst the close and compact street. This creative and unconventional building has faced many criticisms for its unique design as the concept of dancing couple for architectural structure doesn’t belong to Baroque, Gothic and Art Nouveau, either of this art form which has mainly been the pride of Prague for long time. Instead of those it belonged to the style of deconstructivist owing to its unusual features. It was designed by the collaboration of Czech-Croatian architect Vlado Milunic and Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. Located in Rašínovo nábÅ™eží 1981/80, Praha city centre of Prague, the location holds a major historical significance due to U.S bombings of 1945 which destroyed the whole place. The earlier name of the building was Fred and Ginger (famous dancer Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) as given by Gehry but changed out of the fear of increasing American Hollywood culture of ...

The Interlace, Singapore: Blending Mutual Interaction with Environmental Sustainabilit

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Interactive, simple and grand are the only words which can define The Interlace . In the recently held World Architecture Festival 2015 which ran from November 4-6, The Interlace has won “World Building of the Year” award in the category of housing. Designed by German Architect Ole Scheeren with his partnership from Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), The interlace has built in the midst of green southern ridges of Singapore, located in circumscribed by Alexandra Road and the Ayer Rajah Expressway. The concept behind The Interlace is to create a structure which can adapt in tropical atmosphere with its contemporary and interdependent design. The Interlace is a 6 storey residential complex covers the area of 169600.0 sqm. The main material used in construction was concrete. Popularly known as “Vertical Village”, it contains thirty-one apartment block comprising 1,040 apartment units arranged in hexagonal pattern forming an eight large scale open and porous piazza...

Petronas Towers, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia: Ethnically Artistic

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Iconic and beautiful Petronas Tower has been remarkable for many reasons. Firstly from 1998-2004 it has hold the record of world’s tallest building which leads to the second reason – due to iconic status of Petronas Tower, Malaysia has come to the world’s stature. As the structure itself speaks that it was the tribute to Islamic culture. It was designed by leading Argentine - North American architect César Pelli who has given postmodern style to the twin towers. The Petronas Towers situated in Jalan Ampang in Kuala Lampur has started with its construction in 1 March 1993 and completed in 1997. But the inauguration has taken place in 1998.  Petronas Towers are 452 meters and 88 storey multi-functional twin towers which is the biggest tourist attraction in Malaysia. Whole tower is designed as an growing one by one Rub el Hizb symbols (important sign in Islamic Culture). Rub el Hizb is two squares overlapping each other with circle in the centre. This high rise sky scar...

Sancaklar Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey: Experience The Divinity

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There’s always a well-defined boundary between religious peace and worldly affair. That demarcation has symbolized in very detailed manner through Sancaklar Mosque . This mosque is more than a holy place for Islamic Community. It separates the outer word from higher powerful experience which one can feel. The simplicity and use of basic material in the construction has proved true to the concept of connection with nature. Sancaklar Mosque is situated in Buyuk Cekmece, which lies in Suburbs of Istanbul. It opened in 2012. The architectural design has given by Emre Arolat Architects lead by Emre Arolat. It has won Best Religious Building at the World Architecture Festival in 2013 and Best Building in Religious Architecture in 2015. Sancaklar Mosque covers 1050 m2 as total built up area while the main structure takes 700 square meters. The basic design of mosque is cave like structure from inside while the outer side is designed as encircling grey wide shallow steps. It li...

The Iceberg, Aarhus, Denmark: Icing Beauty at the Shore

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Cool breeze , soothing weather and an enclosed surrounding. This is exactly the picture of “The Iceberg” which is possibly the best thing happened in Denmark. Situated in the harbor front of Aarhus, “The Iceberg” has won the award of Best Building of 2015 in the category of housing which is totally worth of considering its unique design. After the construction of Iceberg that particular area has changed from container port to residential locale. It was completed in 2013 and main architectural design contributed by Louis Pailard Architects, JDS, CEBRA and SeARCH. Along with best building award of current year, in the same year completion i.e. 2013 it also won MIPIM Award in the category of Best Residential Development and Architizer A + Award for Residential Mid –Rise.    The Iceberg is a peaky and pointed structure with the combination of blue and white. It takes 21.600m2 as a total built-up area. The area of 21.600 m2 extends till 7-8 volumes. Its lively appear...

Engineering Advancement Can Be Perceived With Enhancement In Creation Encompassing Safety And Luxury

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MahaNakhon is a multistory building currently under construction positioned in Bangkok, Thailand, construction for the one was initiated in 2011 and is anticipated to be completed in the year 2016. The skyscraper will be the tallest structure in the city on completion standing tall to peak height of 314 meters residing 77 floors in total and the construction will spread over floor area of 150,000 square meters. The structure design will take after a silhouette of four-sided prism comprising of jagged helix and cube like cells surfaces accustomed into side of the tower, walls of glass are being separated horizontally and vertically to do the pixelated spiral design. Set of shifted strongbox like elements break up will create terraces and verandahs; it will support to craft an impress of statistical pixilation as projected. The characteristic architectural arrangement and meager setting of the structure persisted as a challenge for the engineering. Luxury archite...