Designed by Mexico-based architecture studio Zeller & Moye, the Anfal Memorial is a silent but solid landmark amidst the mountainous desert of Kurdistan to commemorate the victims of the Kurdish genocide under Saddam Hussein known as Anfal.
The memorial is designed around an art piece of one thou...
Project name
Anfal Memorial
Architecture firm
Zeller & Moye
Location
Rizgari, Kurdistan, Iraq
Principal architect
Christoph Zeller, Ingrid Moye
Design team
Omar Muñoz, Marielle Rivero
Collaborators
Curator: Dr. Michael Fehr. Supporters: Haukari e.V. (NGO); German Federal Foreign Office; ifa Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations e.V
Built area
10000 m² / 107000 ft² (building: 3000 m² /32000 ft²; park: 7000 m² / 75000 ft²)
Visualization
Zeller & Moye
Status
Under construction
Client
Ministry of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs, Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq
Typology
Memorial, exhibition galleries, multi-use space, café, offices, services
The Mexican architecture & design studio A+A arquitectos led by Alfonso Alvarez Sandoval has designed Haras forest house a prefabricated home situated in the ecological district of Haras in Puebla, Mexico.
Project description by the architects:
Haras forest house is a rest house developed on t...
Project name
Casa Harás del Bosque
Architecture firm
A+A arquitectos
Location
Haras, Puebla, Mexico
Principal architect
Alfonso Alvarez Sandoval
Interior design
Alfonso Alvarez Sandoval
Environmental & MEP
Alfonso Alvarez Sandoval
Landscape
Alfonso Alvarez Sandoval
Supervision
Gustavo Alfonso Alvarez Sandoval
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, AutoCAD
Status
Under-Construction
Typology
Residential › House
The Kyiv-based interior design studio Rina Lovko Studio led by Ukranian architect and designer Rina Lovko has designed "California" project, a minimalist house in San Francisco, California, USA. The initial inspiration for the project was the surrounding natural beauty and in particular, the Pacific Ocean that resplendently looms on the horizon.
Interior design
Rina Lovko Studio
Location
San Francisco, California, USA
Principal designer
Rina Lovko
Architecture firm
Rina Lovko Studio
Visualization
Oleksandr Maruzhenko
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray
Typology
Residential › House
Parsi-based archibiotect Vincent Callebaut Architectures has designed Paris Smart City 2050 that is including 8 prototypes of energy-plus towers eco-conceived to fight against climate change. Following the Climate Energy Plan of Paris aimed at reducing 75% of the greenhouse gas emissions within 2050, the « 2050 PARIS SMART CITY » project is a resea...
Project name
Paris Smart City 2050 - For a sustainable, dense and connected city
Architecture firm
Vincent Callebaut Architectures
Principal architect
Vincent Callebaut
Design team
Agnès Martin, Fabrice Zaini, Maguy Delrieu, Vincent Callebaut
Collaborators
Green engineering consultant: Setec
Client
Mairie de Paris - Paris City Hall
Typology
Architectural Commission, "Procédure Adaptée". Program: 8 prototypes of positive energy towers eco-conceived to fight global warming
Designed by Shohreh Rafatpanah, this amazing villa is inspired by the Vanna Venturi House, one of the first prominent works of the postmodern architecture movement that was designed by architect Robert Venturi.
Project description by student:
As we`ve seen in Venturi`s house there are some roo...
By redefining the way of inhabiting and occupying one territory, the PEKULIARI project announces a new relationship between humans and their natural habitat. Diametrically opposed with the concept of urban sprawl, this impressive tower that stands in the heart of the vast forest of Quebec greatly diminishes its impact on nature and the destruction...
Architecture firm
MU Architecture
Location
Outaouais, Quebec, Canada
Design team
Jean-Sébastien Herr, Charles Côté, Pierre-Loup Pivoin, Baptiste Balbrick, Magda Telenga
Typology
Commercial › Mixed-use Development
The Indian architect Vaishaly from Doodle Studio has designed Bollywood Heights a proposal for a vertical film city. The setting of this story is in the Mahim Bay, a bay that is a part of the Arabian Sea in Mumbai. This tower stands on an artificial island as a net-zero energy building it will be se...
Project name
Bollywood Heights, A Film City Tower
Architecture firm
Vaishaly, Doodle Studio
Location
Mahim Bay, Mumbai, India
Typology
Commercial › Mixed-Use Development
Iranian architect Amir Armani Asl from A Architects Office has designed a Self-Sufficient Hydro Tower, located in Tehran, Iran that is inspired by ancient iranian aqueduct system invented three thousand years ago.
Project description by the architects:
The project of Self-sufficient Hydro Tow...
