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London Aquatics Centre 2012 by Zaha Hadid
The 17,500-seat centre is the final permanent venue to be completed at the Olympic Park, one year ahead of the games. The aquatics centre features an undulating wave-like roof that critics originally speculated would be too complex to build on time. The competition and diving pools are sheltered below this steel roof, enclosed within the [...]
Vertical Strip by Stephen Sobl
Architecture graduate Stephan Sobl has designed an upside-down skyscraper to hang over the Colorado River in Nevada, right beside the Hoover Dam. Entitled Vertical Strip, the conceptual tower would provide a casino, a hotel, a boxing ring and a concert hall, like the nearby Las Vegas Strip. The lightweight carbon-fibre structure would be suspended from [...]
Streckhof Reloaded by Franz Architekten
This house in Zellerndorf, Austria, by Vienna studio Franz Architekten comprises three separate units linked by glass passages. Called Streckhof Reloaded, the single-story house has a garage and storage in the volume nearest to the road, kitchen, living and dining areas in the next unit and bedrooms in the furthest, most private unit. A terrace [...]
Floating Staircase
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