This building was design by Nikken Sekkei located in Kagoshima, Japan. The gateless entrance approach to the Jiaikai Foundation’s Taniyama Hospital opens to the community, much greenery and flowers are arranged on the periphery, a tea room and gallery hall are located on the 1st floor to accept neighbours, and the structural design in which [...]

Designer this building is Nikken Sekkei. This is a complex building completed in March 2008, of which a major function is a municipal library with a housing capacity of about 650,000 books. Other facilities included are Historical Material Library, meeting rooms, child-rearing support centre and a satellite studio for the University of the Air. The [...]

A giraffe enclosure just opened at Rotterdam Zoo is the first building in the Netherlands designed for animals according to the principles of the ‘Cradle to cradle’ sustainability philosophy. The philosophy is an ecologically intelligent approach to architecture using and creating materials that will both compliment and restore the planet. “It forced us to unite [...]

Goettsch Partners (GP) has been commissioned by Hong Kong-based developer China Resources Land Limited to design a new 1,075,300 sq ft tower in China’s northeastern coastal city of Dalian. The project features a 377 key Grand Hyatt hotel, 84 serviced apartments, three restaurants including a destination rooftop venue, multiple ballrooms and meeting facilities, a spa [...]

Located in the heart of Bahrain Bay the new development of Raffles City, designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects, will offer 4,300,000 sq ft of mixed use residential and retail space. The design for the ambitious project is formed by four separate sites that gradually slope downwards towards the seafront promenade, architecturally linked by a series [...]

Goettsch Partners (GP) has been commissioned to design a new five-star, 214-key business hotel to service the new King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The project is sited on the first of 10 ‘parcels’ currently under development in the massive new master-planned district. The building comprises a 17-storey tower, a three-storey podium, and [...]