Melania Tower is a hybrid building that includes a shopping mall, offices and luxury hotel apartments, estab- lished on the front of an artificial lake in Erbil, Iraq, with an organic structure. The length of this tower, which is about 140 meters, aims to be a tourist attraction and a landmark, helped by the formation of the organic facade based on...
Project name
Melania Tower
Architecture firm
Mohammad Hussen
Location
Erbil, Kurdistan region, Iraq
Visualization
Mohammad Hussen
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Typology
Commercial › Mixed Use, shopping mall, offices and luxury hotel
Aedas’ triumphant scheme of Genzon Technology Innovation Center in Shenzhen’s Nanshan District encompasses offices that promote a new mode of working, luxury hotel facilities and a bracing shopping experience.
Project name
Shenzhen Genzon Technology Innovation Center
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Dr. Andy Wen, Global Design Principal; Dong Wei Wang, Executive Director
Design team
Andy Wen, Dong Wei Wang
Client
Genzon Investment Group Co.
Status
Conceptcept - Design
Typology
Commercial › Offices, Retail, Hotels
Alongside its historical significance as a station on the southern Silk Road, the city of Tengchong in Yunnan Province has, in recent times, frequently drawn upon the natural qualities of a region that, given its position amongst the foothills of the Himalayas.
Project name
Tengchong Observation Tower
Architecture firm
Delugan Meissl Associated Architects (DMAA)
Location
Tengchong, Yunnan Province, China
Design team
Diogo Teixeira, Jurgis Gecys, Ernesto M. Mulch, Tom Peter-Hindelang, Ezgi Özkan
Structural engineer
Bollinger+Grohmann
Typology
Observation Tower
Appointed in 2017 to expand the resort, Zaha Hadid Architects designed Studio City Phase 2 with new leisure, entertainment and hospitality facilities including one of Asia’s largest indoor & outdoor water parks and a six-screen Cineplex together with extensive conference and exhibition spaces.
Written by
Zaha Hadid Architects
The 21st century is marked by strong urbanization. Since 2008, more than half of the world’s population has been living in urban areas. This urbanization is generally accompanied by high-density development, which is associated with drawbacks such as air pollution and, above all, the lack of adequate space to accommodate this growing population.
Architecture firm
MEKEMTA Jodel Bismarc
Location
Vacant land in the wake of highways, Cameroon
Visualization
MEKEMTA Jodel Bismarc
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, SketchUp, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
MEKEMTA Jodel Bismarc
Typology
Mixed-Use Building
Crown Lighting Formally Celebrates Opening of the Firm’s Art Deco-Inspired Residential Tower.
Written by
Rockefeller Group
Photography
Eric Ficocelli
A project in which we tried to create privacy for each apartment and at the same time take into account the directions of the sun and wind, as well as an aesthetic design and the use of wood materials for finishes.
Project name
Residential Tower
Architecture firm
Visuality Studio
Location
Istanbul, Turkey
Visualization
Yasser Agha
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Yasser Agha
Typology
Residential › Apartments
"iCity" is an important project for CPU PRIDE, in which we act as the general designer. The team of CPU PRIDE worked on the project for the developer MR Group together with one of the most famous architects, the author of the architectural concept "iCity" - Helmut Jan.
Architecture firm
JAHN (Author of the concept ), CPU PRIDE (General Designer)
Location
Moscow, Russian Federation
Height
8-story stylobate + two towers of 34 and 61 floors
Tools used
ArchiCAD, "Dynamo" and "Python" under PyRevit, BIM 360, Autodesk Revit Architecture
Principal architect
Steve Cook - JAHN, Myznikova Elena - PRIDE
Design team
BIM managers: Gamsakhurdia N., Panteleeva A. Architects: Sidash Yu.A., Shevelev V.G., Seredina I.A., Gavrilov A.I., Grosheva O.A., Kabaeva M.M., Privalova M.A., Poslak Yu.N. Other design sections: Ivanova M., Kaverina A., Myalov A., Sinelnikov A
Collaborators
U PRIDE (RU), JAHN (USA), Metropolis (RU), MB-PROJECT BUREAU (RS), Gillespies (UK), Priedemann (Germany), Clancy Engineering (Ireland), Werner Sobek (Germany), Jappsen (Germany), L-Plan (Germany), Arteza (Russian Federation)
Structural engineer
MB Project, CPU PRIDE. Lyutikov P., Zainyshev R., Lukyanova A., Mikhailov A
Environmental & MEP
Metropolis
Status
Under Construction
Typology
Commercial › public and business center
