Brasilia, Brazil
London studio Weston Williamson has won a competition to design a new athletics stadium for Brasilia with a concept for a shape-shifting structure that opens like a flower in response to wind direction and sunlight. The competition was organised in connection with the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Courtesy Dezeen
Matsushima City, Japan
'Ark Nova', the world’s first inflatable concert hall, will soon tour areas of Japan that were devastated in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Designed by British sculptor Anish Kapoor and Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, the mobile, balloon like structure holds about 500 people and will host world-class concerts, workshops, and performance.
Courtesy Design Boom
Toronto, Canada
The Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning has opened at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, bringing 2,000 researchers, trainees and staff previously dispersed throughout six buildings under one roof. The 21-storey laboratory, designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects, is believed to be the largest child health research tower in the world.
Image: Tom Arban
Courtesy World Architecture News
London, England
Zaha Hadid’s undulating extension to the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, opened for business this week. Nestled in the heart of Hyde Park, just across the Serpantine river from the main building, the 900 square meter Serpentine Sackler Gallery occupies a 200-year-old former gunpowder store which was renovated into gallery spaces.
Image: Serpentine Gallery
Courtesy HUH Magazine
Arizona, United States
Arizona architect Nick Tsontakis has unveiled plans for a luxury house that bears a striking similarity to the Batman logo. The $30-million, two-storey building is set to sit on Mummy Mountain, will contain six bedrooms and eight bathrooms, and will boast views across Paradise Valley from a series of viewing decks.
Courtesy Daily Mail UK
