Building Blocks: Striking Structures around the Globe
Wallpaper* 2016 edit of the most striking structures around the globe including AKDA’s House X, the New museum for Western Australia, National Museum Szczecin and The Orchid in Singapore.
9 August 2016
| Lacey Glave
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The Wallpaper* 2016 edit of the most striking structures around the globe including AKDA’s House X, 600 Collins Street by Zaha Hadid Architects, the National Museum in Szczecin and the Makkah Museum.
AKDA’s House X sits on a very tight plot within a dense suburban area in Noida, India. The build features three main design elements: a circular drum, which hosts the main living area, a triangular wedge for the circulation and a rectilinear cube that establishes the boundary. Given its setting, the architects had to address fundamental issues of light access, noise and a close proximity to neighbouring buildings.
New Museum for Western Australia - International architectural firms HASSELL and OMA have joined the global contractor Brookfield Multiplex and the Western Australian government in creating a new cultural centre for the city of Perth for 2020. Integrated within its vibrant city centre, the New Museum for Western Australia was conceived as a ‘collection of physical and virtual stories’ aspiring to a multidimensional experience for the visitor.
The Orchid, is an elegantly simple greenhouse by Singapore-based architects Tierra. Designed for the 45th anniversary celebrations of the Shangri-La Hotel Singapore and set in a quiet corner of its 15-acre grounds, Tierra’s en plein air creation was inspired by the orchid, though, to the designers' credit, the form – a swirling bud or a flower in mid-bloom – is not an obvious riff.
AKDA’s House X sits on a very tight plot within a dense suburban area in Noida, India. The build features three main design elements: a circular drum, which hosts the main living area, a triangular wedge for the circulation and a rectilinear cube that establishes the boundary. Given its setting, the architects had to address fundamental issues of light access, noise and a close proximity to neighbouring buildings.
New Museum for Western Australia - International architectural firms HASSELL and OMA have joined the global contractor Brookfield Multiplex and the Western Australian government in creating a new cultural centre for the city of Perth for 2020. Integrated within its vibrant city centre, the New Museum for Western Australia was conceived as a ‘collection of physical and virtual stories’ aspiring to a multidimensional experience for the visitor.
The Orchid, is an elegantly simple greenhouse by Singapore-based architects Tierra. Designed for the 45th anniversary celebrations of the Shangri-La Hotel Singapore and set in a quiet corner of its 15-acre grounds, Tierra’s en plein air creation was inspired by the orchid, though, to the designers' credit, the form – a swirling bud or a flower in mid-bloom – is not an obvious riff.
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