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Contents

6 Shanghai ICC 114 Dubai Mixed-Use Towers 216 Y3+1

14 Asan Baebang Mixed-Use Project 120 Z Towers 222 Greenside Out

20 Wilson Town City Centre 126 Chua Boc Mixed-Use Development 228 Asan Baebang Mixed-use Complex

26 Cumulus 132 Wind Towers 236 Changchun 1948

36 International Business Centre Zhi 136 Republic Square 242 L.A.R.S.

Yuan
142 Business Centre Miramare 246 FENIX
42 Urban Oasis
146 Istanbul Seaport 252 Campus Centre
48 XERO Project
150 Izmir Bayrakli 262 COR
54 Draga-Šibenik
154 Al Dana at Al Raha Beach 270 Indx
60 Portal to Gijón
160 Headquarters LBBW Immobilien
66 Magma Towers
164 Bionic Tower
72 Puerta del Sol Towers
170 The Rebuilding
76 Arnhem Central Transfer hall
180 Rafles City Hangzhou
82 Scala Tower
192 The Circle at Zurich Airport
86 Sky Village
198 Sustainable Multifunctional Building
94 Urban Resort Saint Petersburg with Commerce and Housing

102 Ozdilek Plaza 204 All Seasons Tent Tower

108 Life in Town 210 Medina Towers

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Shanghai ICC Commercial Residential Retail

Location: Shanghai, China Designers: Benoy

Completion date: 2010 Competition date: Unknown
Competition name: Pre-certification of LEED Gold Site
Area: 40,000 sqm Construction Area: 20,000 sqm Place
in a competition: Excellent prize

Awarded reason:
Benoy has developed a design that layers the
modern development with the rich texture of
Shanghai’s historical design fabric.

This mixed-use development on Huai Hai Middle

Road d ra w s i n s p i rat i o n f ro m th e bea ut if u l
plain tree lined streets of Shanghai as well as
the Shikumen façades from its rich history. The
alfresco dining experience as well as the street
lined shops, and the public park which makes
the city so beautiful is the design inspiration and
concept. It is also the vibrancy of the neon-lit
buildings and the interaction with the people
walking down the street that the designers
wanted to bring into the heart of the project.
The scheme encompasses t wo commercial
towers that lead down to a seven-storey retail
podium and the adjacent residential towers
three and four. It features extensive glazing (not
the norm for retail design), and has many public
design features such as the sunken courtyard,
w i n te r g a r d e n , l a n d s c a p e d p o d i u m r o o f
terrace, countdown square, as well as a green
"parkscape" along the southern edge of the site.
These lead down to "Fifth Avenue" below ground
that links the retail basement levels to the new
MTR Station. "Fifth Avenue" is the underground
continuation of the fabric of Huai Hai Middle
Road, adding another layer to the scheme.

 
 
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Asan Baebang Mixed-Use Project Functional area
Ofice Residential Commercial

Location: Asan, South Korea Designers: DRDS Awarded reason:

Architecture Photographers: DRDS Architecture
Competition date: 200 Total area: 12,000 sqm
Competition scale: International competition
Competition name: Asan Baebang Mixed-Use Project
Competition Organizer: Asan City Government Place in
the competition: Competition entry second place
Asan Baebang Mixed-use Project is an integral
part of the Asan New City Development Plan, a
3,3,200 sqm new city. The development goal is
to provide a base area as a self suficient, multi-
functional city, linked to the National Capitol and
Administration District, which will shift its function
and focus to Asan.

The design fo r A san Baebang features

a n ew  - s to rey l a n d m a r k h i g h - r i s e fo r a
redevelopment project located in Asan, South Award information:
Korea. The mixed-use project consists primarily The A san Cit y Gove r nment held the "A san
of officetel and office components housed
B a eb a n g M i xed - U s e P ro j e ct Co m p et it i o n "
within 4 high - r ise towers. These include 114
in March, 20 0  in Asan, South Korea. It is a
residential condominiums. A multi -function
privately-financed international competition
podium, including culture, research, healthcare,
w i t h m a ny p a r t i c i p a nt s i nv i te d, i n c l u d i n g
commercial and public space unites the project
D RD S A rch itect u re. T h e p ro j ect p resented
at the base. The project size is 12,000 sqm. The
he re received the second place i n a l l the
site area is 51,3 sqm. The site coverage is 0%.
competition entries.
The site is nestled between a hilly woodland
to the west and Jangjae Creek to the east.
The KTX Chunan Asan Express Railway Station
is within a short walking distance. Proximity to
the bus line system and pedestrian/bicycle
circulation routes also link the project with the
rest of Asan in an efficient and sustainable
manner. The featured high-rise tower is  stories
with a total area of 204,05 sqm consisting of
60,600 sqm of ofice and 78,400 sqm of oficetel
including 114 residential units. The average
floor plate size is 1,0 0 sqm. Floor plates are
designed with efficient lease depths in mind.
The angular façade creates a crystalline effect
th at d y n a m i ca l l y ref l ect s a n d h a r m o n i zes
w ith the sk y. Tower s A and B a re 4 sto r ies
in height consisting of officetel with a total
area 1,25 sqm. They are focused on family
oriented living. Typical floor plans consist of 
units facing southeast, south and southwest.
This configuration, based on desirable views,
inform the tower shape. Tower C is 3 stories in
height consisting of officetel with a total area
15,45 sqm. The tower consists of small sized
residential units. The bui lding fo r m reflects
ground coniguration of a public park and offers
bridges that are linked to the north hill. Each unit
is oriented to the southeast with a view of the
public park.

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Wilson Town City Centre
Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina Designers:
Milieu Architects Competition date: 200 Total area:
22,000 sqm Competition scale: International competition
Competition name: Wilson Town City Centre, Sarajevo,
Bosnia & Herzegovina Competition award: Winning entry
Organizer: TriGránit, Development Corporation, Zagreb,
Croatia Client: TriGránit, Development Corporation,
Zagreb, Croatia
Awarded reason:
Distinctive design, excellent brand idea,
adequate accommodation within the budge
Award information:
First place lead to a full appointment for Milieu
Architects to act as a leading designer of the
project.
Wilson City Centre is a major new development
i n t h e w i d e r c e nt r e o f S a r a j evo, o f fe r i n g
spaci ous r i ve r vi ew of f ices, contem po ra r y
retail facilities, entertainment in a lively and
accessible area. The concept of retail draws on
extensive research of contemporar y western
Europe shopping malls. The "V-sign", also called
the "peace sign" and the "victor y sign," is a
hand gesture with the index and middle ingers
open and all others closed, facing the viewer.
Originally, however, its symbolic meaning was
love; signing "love" and saying "peace" was
a hippie anthem and mutual greeting. The
designers have adopted and integrated this
sign as a main theme of the building façade to
express well deserved peace in the country's
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Retail: 50,000 sqm Ofice: 50,000 sqm
Parking: 1,640 Retail + 798 Ofice = min. 2,438 Total
colour ful histor y. The gesture has been well easily walk from unit to unit. Natural daylight
praised by general public as well as authorities. will be fuelled through scenic roof lights sliding
It is important that this major new development along attractive sculpture-like central curvilinear
should contain a rich and varied mix of uses. form. Car parks are designed with a great deal
Successful "towns" thrive on diversity, rather than of lexibility between ofice and retail car park.
a single use that is deserted in the evening. In Ofice and retail have different peak hours. With
this way it becomes a desirable place to live, this in mind office car park is shared by retail
shop, meet, stay, relax and work. It will be the in retail's peak hours (weekends) and similarly
benchmark for future urban regeneration of retail car park caters for ofice needs during the
Sarajevo. A piazza is an open square in a city, weekdays.
found in Italy. It is used to refer to an open urban
public space, such as a city square. The piazza
remains a centre of community life that is only
equa l ed by the ma r ket- place. Pia z za now
generally refers to a paved open pedestrian
space, without grass or planting, often in front
of a significant building or shops. Proposed
Piazza would act as a social heart offering lively
town-square-like environment. The piazza will
act as a natural hub; as a desired destination
for weekend or evening city walks. Stylish ofice
towers emerging from the square will create
desirable business address. Up-to-date business
facilities in combination with flexibilit y and
efficiency will maximize rental yields. Nor th
orientation of the river frontages offers 'floor-
to-ceiling' glass elevation to create class "A"
impression with panoramic city and river views.
Proposed State of the art shopping mall will
attract customers with variety of retail units, with
interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to
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Cumulus
Location: Oslo, Norway Designers: SMAQ Photographer:
SMAQ Competition date: 200 Completion date: 2014
Total area: 55,000 sqm Competition name: Europan 
Competition Place in the Competition: irst prize
Awarded reason:
The project “Culmulus” takes on the challenge of
diversifying social structure along with the sustainability
imperative.
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Apartments: 14,370 sqm Retail and public programme:
10,450 sqm Ofices: 8,500 sqm Cultural and social
facilities: 19,200 sqm Underground parking
Cumulus is a proposal for Grorud that believes t y p o l o g y fo r t h i s s y n t h e s i s i n g a p p r o a c h:
in the latent potentials of the site: its latent undetermined and open on the ground, heavy
e co l o g i e s a n d o rd e r s , t h e e nv i ro n m e nta l and stable on first floor, a spongy heap in the
presence in outer city low density urbanism, sky. It loats above and ixates rudimentary every
the mix and publicness of the blunt peripheral day programmes, it enables an intimate and lit
p ro g ra m m e s a n d t h e u n d e r l y i n g i d e a s of inhabitation of the skies.
modern light and lit dwelling manifest in the
existing housing slabs of Grorud centre. Cumulus
thus i s a st rategy to re - cycle, de - secto r i se
and confront these latencies and interweave
them through a concept of (water) flow: the
project conceives social spaces as related to
environmental dynamics and develops a close
– but not too close – public sphere inherent to
the loose aggregate at hand. Cloud! The white
and heavy cumulus congestus cloud serves as
performative model to develop an architectural
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International Business Centre Zhi Yuan Functional area
Ofices: 36,000 sqm Shops: 6,500 sqm Restaurants:
11,300 sqm Parking lots: 30,000 sqm

Location: Suzhou, China Designers: HENNarchitekten

Competition date: 200 Completion date: 2010 Total
area: 2,000 sqm Place in the Competition: irst prize

Awarded reason:
It created a systematic pattern at the important
intersection of Long Shan Road and Tai Hu Road
that would serve as a point of orientation for the
further development of the business park.

The p roposal fo r the Inter national Business internal spaces. The two-and-three-storey plinth
Centre Zhi Yuan takes up the principle of duality buildings have rental premises for restaurants,
as its fundamental design concept. Two axes, shops and banks, designed for lexibility of use;
two towers, two squares and a similar number the towers of different heights are reached
of cou r t ya rds def ine the planned bui lding through spacious foyers on the ground loor and
complex. The individual buildings and their are connected to one another by bridges at
uses are arranged in relation to one another some of the upper levels.
according to the dialectic principle: high and
low, closed and open, private and public, in
alter nating ser ies. Two block s, U -shaped in
plan, are to be constructed on the plot. The
ends of the buildings are terminated by two
s l e n d e r h i g h - r i s es, w h i ch a re rotate d a n d
offset with respect to one another to create
a complex structure of defined external and

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Urban Oasis
Location: Singapore Designers: UNStudio Photographer:
UNStudio Competition date: 200 Site area: 35,000 sqm
Construction area: 14,00 sqm
Awarded reason:
For the façade, considerations of climatic aspects
entail variations of spatial solutions that react to
the tropical conditions.
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Ofice Hotel Retail Residential
The development comprises of minimum 40% ofice use
and minimum 30% hotel related uses, with the remaining
usage reserved for residential and retail components.
The site for the Urban Oasis development at tech no l og i es con s titutes th e d r i v i ng fo rce
Beach Road is located at a strategic point behind the design. The development comprises
w ithin Singapo re’s cit y centre, connecting of minimum 40% office use and minimum 30%
three distinct districts and forming a conluence hotel related uses, with the remaining usage
point and hub for businesses. The 35,000 sqm reserved for residential and retail components.
island site commands panoramic views whilst
al so enjoying a high deg ree of visibi l it y of
the city. The Urban Oasis is an unique mixed-
use development comprising of office, hotel,
retai l and residential components w ithin a
garden setting. The public plaza at ground
l eve l i s d es i g n e d to c re ate a l i ve l y u r b a n
park, activating and vitalizing the area. The
integral design implementation of sustainable
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XERO Project Functional area
Residential Retail/commercial Educational Health care
and wellness facility Parking and transportation

Location: Dallas, USA Designers: David Baker + Partners;

Fletcher Studio Competition date: 200 Construction
area: 3,500 sqm Competition name: Re: Vision Dallas
Place in the Competition: irst prize

Awarded reason:
XERO Project reaches beyond the one-block
competition site located near Dallas's city hall to
propose a new district that enacts a symbiosis of
agriculture and daily life.

XERO Project envisions a high-density, zero-

energy, agriculturally oriented pair of buildings
on the site of existing surface parking lots in a
derelict district adjacent to Dallas City Hall. This
project is about civilising city streets through the
use of greenways and creating high-density
housing in the middle of the city. By illing in the
vast emptiness, making connections with the
surrounding neighborhoods, addressing extreme
weather and street conditions, and providing a
clear focus, XERO creates a place that Dallas
can value and use.

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Draga-Šibenik Functional area
Hotel Residential Commercial Ofice Parking

Location: Šibenik, Croatia Designers: Kincl Ltd.

Competition date: 200 Competition name: Conceptual
architectural design of residential, business and other
public contents on the location Draga in Šibenik Place
in the Competition: third prize

Awarded reason:
The concept of design is based on a clear
comparison of public and urban space typology,
which builds the city.

T h e c o n c e pt o f d e s i g n o f D r a g a - Š i b e n i k of vertical structures in the city skyline. This facet

a n d i n co r p o ra t i o n o f t h e n e w l y p l a n n e d of the composition and design of large scale, i.e.
development into the existing structure of the the entire view of the city, was carefully studied
city is based on a clear relation of the public using 3D simulation of the potential view of the
city spaces and the typology of development, wider city area.
with the constituting elements of the urban
development of the city being its public spaces,
streets, squares, walk ways, parks, while the
constituting elements of the t ypology used
to bu i l d the cit y, the a rch itectu ra l s hapes
developed through time and, shaping its urban
and morphological sequences. Low vertical
structures, up to 10 storeys (40 meters) are a
distinguishing mark of the business centre, and
are harmoniously incorporated into the system

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Portal to Gijón Functional area
Apartment: 143,850 sqm Retail: 17,525 sqm Hotel: 8,500
sqm Transfer hall: 47,800 sqm Parking places: 1,513

Location: Gijón, Spain Designers: UNStudio Competition

date: 2005 Competition name: Competition for the
development of a Special Plan to integrate the rail in the
city of Gijón Site area: 1,0,000 sqm

The p roposal ai ms to weavi ng togethe r

the disjointed pa r ts of the cit y of Gi jón by
eliminating obtrusive barriers and allowing for a
soft transition from the landscape to the urban
centre. The large location, sweeping through a
vital part of Gijón's centre consists of a flowing
sequence of four parts: the station of the 21st
Centur y, the station square, the boulevard
extension, the roof landscape. The four urban
e l e m e nt s to g et h e r a c h i eve i nv i t i n g c ro s s
connections and cross views between different
neighbourhoods, between the station and the
beach, while establishing a primarily pedestrian
platform for new mixed - use developments,
including housing, retail, office and leisure
functions. All traffic is bundled on the city side
of the masterplan, whereas the beach side is
reserved for pedestrians. The park of la Moreda
i s ex pa n d ed towa rd s th e ra i l s, w ith th e i n
between spaces replanted with Asturian foliage.

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Magma Towers Functional area
Commercial Ofice Parking Apartment

Location: Monterrey, Mexico Designers: GLR arquitectos

Photographer: Felipe Dorado Competition date: 200
Site area: 3,450 sqm

Awarded reason:
The great variety of housing configurations
generates an image of great freedom in it’
s composition, where double height lofts and
penthouses coexist with standard one and two
bedroom apartments, with or without balconies,
in a wide variety of dimensions.

It is a mixed-use building locating in the exclusive

area of Valle Oriente, in Monterrey, Mexico. A
two storey commercial block facing Frida Kahlo
Avenue, is complemented in the rear façade
with a single level of speculative office space.
On top of the large basement that these two
elements representing and their respective
underground parking area, raise two dark gray
towers of monolithic appearance. The space that
stands between them at the lobby level contains
most of the amenities, such as the swimming
pool, bar, gym, green roof garden, as well as
other common areas. The different façades
consist of a faceted geometry that creates a
great dynamism in the shape of the building.
At the same time, the substractions in the tower
’s façades are generated in order to create
balconies in a certain number of apartments. The
randomly designed windows give great rythm to
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Puerta del Sol Towers Functional area
Apartments: 300 Commerce: 6,000 sqm Parking
Ofices: 2,500 sqm

Location: Monterrey, Mexico Designers: GLR arquitectos

Photographer: Alejandro Rodríguez, Felipe Dorado
Competition date: 200 Site area: 5,200 sqm

Awarded reason:
T he des ig n of the natu ra l ga rden and the
waterfall accroding to the topography is very
brilliant.

This project, located in a large development of the towers façade, with it’s main material
area within the urban sprawl of the cit y of being precast concrete, is put toghether by a
Monterrey, offers a mixed-use complex with window pattern based in ive different modules,
3 0 0 a pa r tm ent s, , 0 0 0 sq m of com m e rce, arranged randomly to create a certain rythm in
and 2,500 sqm of offices. The intention in this the composition.
project was to locate the commercial premises
in the first two levels, facing the Puerta del Sol
Avenue, while the offices were located in the
third level. The body of these premises and
ofices is detached from the apartment building
by an inner vehicular circulation. In this way,
the different areas that conform the complex
are separated, even the parking zone. The skin

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Arnhem Central Transfer Hall Functional area
Transportation Commercial Conference centre
Parking area Ofice

Location: Arnhem, The Netherlands Designers: UNStudio

Competition date: 200 Site area: 1,000 sqm

The Transfer Hall project is the central piece of

the Arnhem Central Masterplan, linking different
programmes and levels. The building shelters the
facilities and waiting areas for the trains, trolley
buses and bus stations, as well as commercial
areas and a conference centre, and serves as
the linking hub between these transportation
modes, the city centre, the Coehoorn area, the
parking garage and the ofice plaza.

 
 
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Scala Tower Functional area
Hotel Shopping mall Conference centre Parking area

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Designers: BIG

Awarded reason:
The design of the Scala Tower grows out of the
context with a starting point in the volumes and
cornice heights of the neighbouring buildings.

Visible from the Central Station, the Town Hall

Square and the Tivoli Gardens, Scala on the Axel
Square is located on a central traffic, cultural
and commercial site in Copenhagen. Acting
as the visiting card of Copenhagen to the
surrounding world in the heart of a potent mix of
élite and popular culture, the designers wish to
continue Scala’s function as a place for concerts,
cinemas, shops and restaurants. The designers
propose a building with a starting point in the
historical Copenhagen tower, which is made
up of two basic principles: a base that relates
to the urban space and life unfolding near the
building, and a slim steeple that reaches towards
the sky and becomes part of the Copenhagen
Skyline. From the surrounding city space, the
house rises towards the sky. At the top, a clear
principle for a tall and slim tower, at the bottom,
a beautifully modelled volume that merges with
the surrounding city from building to city space.

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Sky Village Functional area
Parking grid: 7.8 metres x 7.8 metres Housing unit and
ofice type: 7.8 metres x 7,8 metres x 4 metres, approx.
60 sqm or 240 cu.m Hotel Library Conference space

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Designers: MVRDV

Competition date: 200 Construction Area: 3,000 sqm

Awarded reason:
The project realises the lexibility for various uses.

By creating a tower that is a grid structure with

a minimal pixel size, any configuration can be
imagined and illed in. The grid-size of 7.8 metres
× . metres combines a good parking grid, a
proper housing unit and office type, which can
easily accommodate a large variety of tenants,
e.g. young people that want to live close to the
city and starters in the ofice market. Small ofices
and home offices make up of a vertical SOHO.
The units, or pixels, can also be joined together
to form larger spaces to accommodate larger
apartments, hotel rooms or ofices. A sustainable
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Urban Resort Saint Petersburg Functional area
Hotel rooms: 300 Convention centre with the capability
for 500 people and 23 rooms for reunions Sports centre
Ofice building Parking spaces: 500

Location: Saint Petersburg, Russia Designers: Willy

Müller Architects Photographer: Willy Müller Architects
Competition date: 200 Competition name: Urban Resort
San Petersburg Competition Place in the Competition:
irst prize

Awarded reason:
The building creates a silhouette of reconcilability
at the boundary of the city.

The "Resort" of Saint Petersburg is a perfect activities. The complex contains 300 hotel rooms,
example to incorporate the structure of a building a convention centre with the capability for 500
with its surrounding environment. The shape of people and 23 rooms for reunions. Beyond that
the construction equals an artificial landscape. the complex contains an enormous sports centre,
With its different undulations, the membrane an ofice building, a parking zone and a landing
equals mountains that accrete and accumulate zone for helicopters.
the snow, which is omnipresent in the city. The
white roof cover of the building shows a contrast
to the colours and materials of whole complex.
The building claims to transmit an iconic value
that is marking its public use. The skin has been
designed that besides its formal language and
its special character, based on folds, expresses
several characteristics of identity related to the

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Ozdilek Plazaa Functional area
38-Floor high hotel 37-Floor high residential
Shopping mall

Location: Istanbul, Turkey Designers: ABSTRAKT Studio

Inc./Voytek Gorczynski Architect Photographers:
ABSTRAKT Studio Inc./Voytek Gorczynski Architect
Competition date: 200 Competition name: Ozdilek
Plaza Closed International Competition Place in a
competition: Honorable Mention

Awarded reason:
Both towers of the project create visual anchors
related to their respective context and plazas.

Two public plazas have been designed at

the opposite ends of the site and major
programmatic elements have been located next
to them. 38-loor high hotel has been placed next
to the eastern main pedestrian plaza and 37-loor
high residential condominium tower has been
placed next to the western entry plaza. The main
pedestrian circulation – recalling abstracted
river – runs between two public plazas and
cascades down to the shopping mall negotiating
1metres level difference between main entry
plaza on the east and secondary entry plaza to
the west. Hotel tower is directly connected to
the main pedestrian entry plaza and announces
the development from the distance, creating
a landmark within the city. Residential tower
addresses the surrounding low-rise residential
area without creating negative sunshade. Most
of the residential units feature private, double
height walkout sky-gardens providing view of the
Bosphorus Strait.

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Life in Town
Location: France Designers: Manuelle Gautrand
Architecture Competition date: 200 Completion date:
Unknown Site area: 5,000 sqm
The project realises the "Life in Town" concept
as something anchored in the tradition of
European town planning but also innovative
and forward looking. An organic grid weaving
together fragments of a town: lines tracing a
street pattern and circles forming squares. At
different points the designers create more width,
forming squares of different sizes on streets
adjacent to the site, points of convergence
within the locality. A sequence of streets and
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Shopping mall Retail Market Apartment Ofices
squares is then carved out within the site itself, garden, but rather as cut-out garden fragments
spreading out as a luid extension of the locality. serving different functions. As a whole, the project
From Avenue de Paris or Avenue de Sydney, becomes a receptacle for greenery in multiple
where the squares are formed, one can wander and magniied form.
along the interior street and across a sequence
of inter-connected, ineer squares. This route is
that of a major shopping street, punctuated at
a certain point with the market hall on one side
and the departement store on the other. The
scheme strives for a genuine mixture of indoor
and outdoor spaces and large green terraces.
It is conceived as a series of levels stacked on
the top of one another, gradually opening as
they rise skyward like a conch-sell, encouraging
natural light to penetrate throughout. Green
space has not been conceived as a vast isolated
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Dubai Mixed-Use Towers
Location: Dubai, UAE Designers: Fentress Architects
Photographers: Fentress Architects Competition date:
200 Completion date: 2011 Competition name:
Mixed-Use High-Rise Development – Dubai Place in a
Competition: irst prize
Awarded reason:
Fentress' design best creates compelling
architecture that is a unique and distinguishable
landmark on the Dubai skyline, without competing
with its immediate adjacent neighbour – the Burj
Dubai.
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Hotel rooms: 435 Apartment: 397 Conference centres
Ofice High-end retail shops Restaurants
Entertainment areas
Adjacent to the Burj Dubai, two dancing towers space, conference centres, high - end retail
designed by Curtis Fentress rise more than 00 shops, restaurants, hospitality and entertainment
feet, or 210 metres, with a graceful cadence. The areas.
towers suggest two dancers bowing in rhythm
with one another – one convex, one concave,
artfully connected yet independent. To create
this illusion of two towers bending and folding
in a dance, an innovative structural system was
developed to allow floors to extend beyond
the core support with a framework of diagonal
braces tying together sections of cantilevered
loors. One tower was designed with 28 loors of
five-star hotel suites with 435 guest rooms and
14 ser viced apar tment-like units. The other
houses a 34-loor residential tower featuring 250
luxury rental residences with hotel-like amenities.
The twin towers feature prime corporate ofice
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Z Towers Functional area
Conference halls First class hotel Commercial Ofice
Parking area

Location: Riga, Latvia Designers: NRJA Photographers:

NRJA Competition date: 200 Completion date:
2010 Competition name: Baltic Region Development
Construction area: 10,055, sqm Place in the
Competition: irst prize

Awarded reason:
The innovative construction of the two
connected buildings is bound to become one of
the outstanding architectural landmarks in the
Baltic Region.

The Z Towers development will offer 2,000

sqm of VIP and A-class office space. Its two
interconnected skyscrapers have been designed
with an ultra modern exterior, elegant interior and
a breathtaking view of the River Daugava and
Riga Old Town. Impeccable service combined
with a refined atmosphere makes it the most
prestigious place to conduct business in the Baltic
Region. Z Towers will offer several conference
halls, a business centre, a irst class hotel, shops,
restaurants, cafés, beauty salons – everything
required for your business and the comfort of your
visitors.

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Chua Boc Mixed-Use Development
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam Designers: ICE Photographers:
ICE Competition date: 200 Completion date: 2010 Site
area: 1,000 sqm Construction area: 11,000 sqm Place
in the Competition: irst prize
Awarded reason:
The design takes advantage of the mixed-use
development itself and maximises connections
and programme sharing in section as well.
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Hotel (bar, pool, spa, gym) Apartments (leisure functions
and function rooms) Ofice (ballroom/convention
facilities and business facilities)
The project is a mixed use development in a office tower Ballroom and business facilities will
very dense urban area of Hanoi. Programmes be located to create a synergy with the offices
are office, hotel, apartments and commercial. below.
The challenge of the site is the large area to be
developed versus the limited street frontage. The
connections will be provided by the hotel, putting
the public function both into the very top as
well as the very base. The top connection forms
a three-storey panorama zone. The recreation
functions of the hotel (bar, pool, spa, gym) will
be located on top of the hotel. Leisure functions
such as restaurants and Karaoke rooms will be
located on top of the apartments, so that they
can be easily share by the residents. Above the
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Wind Towers Functional area
Residential space: 30,000 sqm Shopping centre: 11,500
sqm Recreational spaces

Location: Gelenjik, Russia Designers: Piuarch

Photographers: Piuarch Competition date: 200
Completion date: 200 Competition name: Housing and
Retail Complex in Gelenjik Competition Site area: 0,000
sqm Place in the Competition: irst prize

Awarded reason:
The variation created on the façade by the
shifting of the various floors of the towers adds
rhythm and movement, making them visually
intriguing.

The residential and commercial complex of

the "Wind Towers" stands in the unique setting
of Gelenjik, the famous resort on the Black Sea,
with fine sand beaches, crystalline water and
high, rocky mountains. The project covers a total
area of about 0,000 sqm, containing residential,
commercial and recreational spaces, organised
in three slender towers resting on a large base.
The towers, each 100 metres in height, contain
apartments of different sizes, for a total of 30,000
sqm of residential space. A shopping centre with
an area of 11,500 sqm is organised at the base
of the three towers. The shopping centre, on
three levels, contains a supermarket, small shops,
boutiques and recreation spaces. The upper level
features a cinema with four theatres, a bowling
alley, a playroom for children and many bars and
restaurants of different types.

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Republic Square Functional area
Retail Ofice Hotel Residential

Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan Designers: Eric Owen Moss

Architects Photographers: Eric Owen Moss Architects
Competition date: 200 Completion date: N/A
Competition name: Conceptual Design Development of
Republic Square Construction area: 11,00 sqm Place in
the Competition: second prize

Awarded reason:
It is innovative to make the spiral to provide the
major support system for the building above.

The Republic Square is a part of a large-scale

development across the city of Almaty. The
building is a long tower which is anchored to
the ground by a 3-metre diameter spiral, which
will be divided up between retail, office, hotel
and residential spaces. The spiral provides major
support for the structure and encapsulates the
five public venues near the ground level. In
between these five spaces, four courtyards let
nature in and are each shaped to represent
the four seasons of the year. A new city plaza is
created within the spiral. This enclosed plaza or
"winter garden" connects the former capitol site
to the west with large scale retail and housing
areas to the east.

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Business Centre Miramare Functional area
Parking places: 400 Public commercial facilities Ofice:
20,000 sqm

Location: Zagreb, Yugoslavia Designers: 3LHD

Competition date: 200 Completion date: Unknown
Competition name: Public Competition Site area: 4,03
sqm Place in the Competition: irst prize

Awarded reason:
Effectively atomised façade is simple in design
and implementation, and definitely steals ones
attention.

Concept of this awarded project stems from

forming a unified structure that will reconcile
the surrounding urban matrix. Two interacting
volumes, a tower with 20 floors and a lower
building with 5 floors, unite the planned goals
and achieve high quality relations with the
neighbouring buildings. A semi-open atrium
between the two buildings connects them with
the surrounding public pedestrian surfaces. The
underground floors are reserved for garage
spaces, ground floor for shops, bars and
restaurants. There are 20,000 square metres of
office space, and an unique viewpoint at the
top of the tower. Simple but at the same time
attractive effect of the façade design, made
by pulling glass modules in and out, gives the
building recognition and uniqueness.

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Istanbul Seaport Functional area
Retail Entertainment Ofice Hotel Hotel-managed
apartment Conference facilitie Pleasure boat marina
Mega yacht harbour Cruise ship terminal

Location: Istanbul, Turkey Designers: 5+design

Competition date: 200 Completion date: N/A Site area:
00,000 sqm

Awarded reason:
The project's great contribution to the
preservation of the Theodosian Wall has to be
mentioned.

Istanbul Seaport is a mixed-use master plan

consisting of retail, entertainment, office, hotel,
hotel-managed apartment, conference facilitie,
pleasure boat marina, mega yacht harbour and
cruise ship terminal. The project is situated on
the Miramar Sea at the foot of the Theodosian
Wall just west of the main historic and cultural
area of Istanbul. The master plan is designed to
preserve views of the historic wall by creating
view corridors, a three-hectare viewing plaza
and a descending skyline that step down to the
height of the historic wall. The cruise ship terminal
is oriented to provide spectacular views of the
Marble Gate. The low-rise buildings on north
facing elevation are faceted in plan to emulate
the faceting and towers of the historic wall. They
will be clad in locally quarried stone to match the
historic wall.

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Izmir Bayrakli Functional area
Class-A ofice tower High-end residential tower Retail
Cultural areas Cafés Restaurant Parking area

Location: Izmir, Turkey Designers: 5+design Competition

date: 200 Completion date: N/A

Awarded reason:
Izmir Bayrakli takes advantage of the waterfront
to provide a connective link between its
waterfront neighbours and the project’s districts.

Izmir Bayrakli is located in the city of Izmir,

adjacent to an important junction point within
the city's transportation network, and across
the waterfront highway along the Gulf of
Izmir. Because of this location, the project will
command an extraordinary presence on the
Gulf, the city and the nearby hills, and will itself be
highly visible from both land and sea. The largest
planned development in the region and one of
the most prestigious opportunities in Turkey, the
project will be home to a Class-A ofice tower, a
high-end residential tower, retail, cultural area,
cafe, restaurant and parking.

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Al Dana at Al Raha Beach Functional area
Residential Retail Entertainment
Transport Hotel

Loca t ion: A bu D h a bi , UA E Desig ners: 5+ des i gn

Competition date: 200 Completion date: Unknown

Awarded reason:
An urban island accessed through a network of
bridges and water taxis, Al Dana is planned with
neighbourhoods in mind.

In the centre of Al Raha Beach's master plan

development is the Al Dana district which focuses
on the lifestyle needs of a sophisticated and
worldly community. An experiential destination
designed as the heart of the community, it is a
place where residents and visitors alike can shop,
dine, explore and be entertained. This project
will be home to those seeking an international
lifestyle while preserving the rich cultural heritage
of the region — a home to those wishing to enjoy
an urban lifestyle, while maintaining the personal
sense of neighbourhood and community.

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Headquarters LBBW Immobilien Functional area
Ofice Residential Parking garage with storage areas
Retail Conference area Casino Cantina

Location: Stuttgart, Germany Designers: KSV Krüger

Schuber th Vandreike Photog raphers: KSV K r üger
S c h u b e r t h Va n d r e i ke C o m p e t i t i o n d a t e : 2 0 0 
Comp let ion da te: 2 011 Compet i t ion name: New
construction of LBBW Immobilien at Pariser Platz in
Stuttgart Construction area: 44,5 sqm Place in the
Competition: irst prize

Awarded reason:
The project is a modern architecture which
impresses with functionality.

Situated on a triangular plot, this "double loop"

resembles the form of an "". It features both an
introverted atrium and courtyard garden. Along
its lateral façade, the building perimeter recedes
and creates a visual break. The double loop
provides for surprising solutions in urban design
and architecture based in a simple idea. The
modern and innovative building concept with
its urban character creates recall value and an
unmistakable character. The friendly and open
choice of materials and the language of forms
enable a high degree of identification with the
building for users. Aside from the headquarters
of LBBW Immobilien, this urban complex includes
uses such as conference area, casino and
cantina, retail and gastronomic areas, residential
areas, archival areas as well as parking garage
with storage areas.

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Bionic Tower Functional area
Retail Hotel Commercial Residential Sky lounge

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE Designers: LAVA

Photographers: LAVA Competition date: 200
Completion date: 2013 Competition name: Abu Dhabi
HighriseTower Competition Construction area: 100,000
sqm

Awarded reason:
The building proposes a natural system of organic
structure and organisation.

The tower proposes a naturally occuring system of

structural organisation that generates a building
embodying efficiencies found within natural
structures and architectures. The proposed
façade also envisions an intelligent automation
of surface to address pragmatic issues such as
ventilation, solar access and water collection.
There is a unity between structure, space and
architectural expression, similar to cathedrals
and any natural system. Learning from nature
and advanced computing enables the designers
to conceive structures of incredible lightness,
efficiency and elegance. The intelligence of
the smallest unit results in the intelligence of the
overall system.

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The Rebuilding Functional area
Residential towers: 14,000 sqm Ofice space: 8,000 sqm
Urban Inill: 13,200 sqm (restaurants, galleries, gyms,
theatres, supermarkets, indoor play ields)

Location: Helsinki, Finland Designers: REX|NOW|Croxton

Collaborative Competition date: 200 Completion date:
N/A Competition name: Sitra, the Finnish Innovation
Fund Low2No Sustainable Development Construction
area: 35,200 sqm Place in the Competition: second prize

Awarded reason:
The Rebuilding becomes a paradigm of density
and diversity. This is what sustainability looks like.

Designed to generate more density, more

diversity and more City, The Rebuilding includes
the following three components: residential
towers, headquarters and Urban Inill. Two slender
Residential Towers replace Finland’s conventional
concrete construction with highly sustainable
and recyclable steel construction, whose
lateral stability is provided by an exoskeleton
that enables easy plan reconfiguration and
solar optimisation. Headquarters has ,000
sqm of office space, which is dimensioned to
accommodate different and evolving work styles
and allows for proximity, interconnectedness and
future company expansion. Urban Inill — a hybrid
between a building and a development strategy
— retains conceptual coherence, while fostering
evolution and multiple authorships. Capable of
being “tuned” to meet the speciic and changing
needs of its neighbourhood, the Urban Infill’s
variable scale and construction methods can
absorb a diverse mix of uses — some temporary,
some permanent — such as restaurants, galleries,
gyms, theatres, supermarkets, even indoor play
ields.

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Location: Hangzhou, China Designers: Ben van
Berkel/UNStudio Photographer: Rendertaxi, Aachen
Competition date: 200 Completion date: 2012
Competition name: Rafles City Hangzhou Construction
Area: 400,000 sqm
Awarded reason:
The Rafles City project will be at the core of the
Qianjiang New Town area and contribute to the
recognition of this area as a new destination in
the city.
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Functional
Functional area area
Retail Ofices Apartment Hotel
Dutch architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio
has unveiled plans for a 0 -storey building
with two towers in Hangzhou, China. Called
Rafles City, the building will incorporate retail
s p a ces, of f i ces, h o u s i n g a n d a h ote l . T h e
philosophy behind the Rafles City concept is to
integrate mixed uses in an urban context, but
in such a way as to give this concept a twist by
focussing on where the urban context meets
the landscape of the city. In the design of the
towers the urban element of the project twists
towards the landscape, whilst the landscape
a s p e c t, i n t u r n , t w i s t s towa rd s t h e u r b a n
context, thereby effecting the incorporation
and consolidation of these separate elements
in one formal gesture.
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The Circle at Zurich Airport Functional area
Ofice Hotel Serviced apartments Brand spaces Shops
Cafés

Location: Zurich, Swiss Designers: Riken Yamamoto &

Field Shop Competition date: 2010 Completion date:
Unknown Competition name: Architectural Competition
"The Circle at Zurich Airport" Site area: 3,000 sqm Place
in the Competition: irst prize

Awarded reason:
From the terminal, the project has the image
of one enormous building with a dynamically
curved façade. However, seen from the green hill
of Butzenbuel, it seems like a small city.

The Circle is one of the world’s most ambitious

airport real estate projects. Dubbed “The
Circle at Zurich Airport”, the new building will
accommodate services from cultural to office
through health and beauty. A true mixed-
use scheme, hotels and serviced apartments
will join retails, offices and education facilities
across 200,000 sqm of floor space. Conference
facilities, exhibition space and auditoriums are
also incorporated in the plan. The Circle at Zurich
Airport is to be as comfortable as home for
cosmopolitan international travelers.

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Sustainable Multifunctional Building with
Commerce and Housing
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherland Designers: LOOS
ARCHITECTS Competition date: 200 Completion date:
N/A Competition name: Adaptives Buiksloterham Place
in the Competition: Entry
Awarded reason:
The project's vision of zero emission is a key for the
"Adaptives".
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Functional area
Commercial spaces: 3,650 sqm Ofices: 1,350 sqm
Social-rent and free market apartments: 11,585 sqm
Ateliers Parking
The design was part of a bigger competition The designer have focused on three aspects of
held for a former industrial harbour area in sustainability which facilitate the well being of its
Amsterdam. Here new sustainable mixed-use inhabitants and users: cosiness, adaptability and
buildings had to be introduced in order to make energy eficient techniques.
the area also suitable for living. The design should
facilitate commercial spaces, offices, ateliers,
parking garage plus social-rent and free market
apartments. As a tribute to the industrial harbour
architecture, the appearance of the design
is consciously ambiguous. Especially the shed
roofs refer both to large scale factories as well
as to pitch roofed housing neighbourhoods.
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All Seasons Tent Tower Functional area
Parking area Shopping mall Business centre
Housing lats Hotel

Location: Yerevan, Armenia Designers: OFIS

Architecture Competition date: 2010 Completion date:
N/A Competition name: Architectural Concept for an
International Buisness Center with an Intercontinental
Hotel in the City of Yerevan Construction area: 5,130
sqm Place in the Competition: Entry

Awarded reason:
Wrapping the terraces in high performance skin to
reduce the solar gain in summers, the All Seasons
Tent Tower makes use of a pipe system with
embedded concrete slab that not only allows
cooling without draft problems in hot weather but
also provides heating during the chilly winter.

Developed as a part of the Mercedes-Benz

Hotel Tower Competition for the city of Yerevan,
Armenia, the "All Seasons Tent Tower" from OFIS
Architecture is a quake-proof building, which
is capable of resisting gravity load and the
forces resulting from earthquakes. Featuring two
terraced cylindrical towers, accommodating a
restaurant, pool, spa and itness centre and bar
in the higher tower, the tent tower integrates
photovoltaic cells into the atrium roof to generate
solar power. Presenting a dominant view from
the city, the next-gen architecture also houses a
hotel and apartments, together with a business
center, shops and garageS.

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Medina Towers Functional area
Hotel (5 stars): 300 Rooms Convention center Spa
Swimming pools Bars Restaurants Club Casino Parking
General Services 200 Luxury Apartments from 2 to 5
bedrooms Ofices Green roofs Commercial centre
Retails shop Green areas

Location: Tangier, Morocco Designers: LABSCAPE

Architecture Photographer: LABSCAPE Architecture
Competition date: 200 Completion date: 2014
Competition name: International Completetion of
Medina Towers Construction area: 11,000 sqm Place in
the Competition: irst Prize

Awarded reason:
The initial idea is typical of Moroccan culture
and based on 4 basic elements in the Moroccan
landscape.

The first tower, the hotel, takes as a reference

point something unique in the Arabic world, the
moucharabie, a kind of wood carving bema.
This device, which allows one to observe without
being seen, is generally made from small pieces
of turned wood assembled according to an
often-complex geometrical plan, forming a
closely woven grille. All the buildings rest on a
horizontally “cut out” base, like the dry cracked
ground. The rifts allow light to pass through and
protect visitors from heat. The idea recreates a
place similar to the traditional Medina, but in
a contemporary and innovative version. The 3
residential towers are positioned close together,
creating a play of perspective from oblique lines,
solids and voids, just like superimposed stones.

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Y3+1
Location: Yerevan, Armenia Designers: ICE (ideas
for contemporary environments) Competition date:
200 Completion date: N/A Competition name:
Intercontinental Hotel and Business Centre in Yerevan
Competition Construction area: 40,520 sqm Site area:
44,000 sqm Place in the Competition: Entry
Awarded reason:
Y3+1 is aiming to be a development, which
not only acts visually but performs on spatial
as well as programmatic levels, and therefore
could become a major civic space in the city of
Yerevan. The result should be an environment,
which is urban and programmatically and
spatially diverse.
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Functional area
Recreational programmes Clubhouse facilities Hotel
Commercial mall
The project consists of three main structures,
which are raised above the plateau: a residential
building, a hotel and an office building. They
are connected to the ground by three legs,
which contain the entrance and the main
public functions of the programme. The legs
are connected to the urban plateau above
and below ground. The towers are designed to
maximise the panoramic view over the city and
its environment with a major emphasis on the
direction towards the Mount Ararat. Each tower
can be build as individual structure. However
as they connect at the upper floors, there lies
the potential of linking them and enable a
synergy between the different programme parts
regarding circulation, maintenance and use. The
resulting form appears to be a lower-like shape.
To create a consistent image, the towers have
the same front layer of the façade system, but
different solutions at the second, inner layer.
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Greenside Out
Location: Tirana, Albania Designers: Joubert Architecture
Photographer: Marc Joubert Competition date: 2010
Completion date: N/A Competition name: Rruga Durresit
Mixed-use Building Competition Site area: 12,00 sqm
Place in the Competition: second prize
Awarded reason:
The jury was impressed with the architecture
and surprised with the high quality of the outside
spaces within the complex.
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Functional area
Commercial spaces Apartments Ofice space
Parking garage
Breaking with the traditional box-like shapes, the accessed through the two central plazas in the
architects filled out the space set by the urban building, allowing for direct access with stairs as
regulations, and subsequently hollowed out this well as a separate elevator core running straight
shape until the maximum allowed volume was from the parking garage.
reached. In doing so, the strong, recognisable
outer shape, is contrasted by beautiful open inner
spaces and at the same time the proposed shape
allows for a lexible development in programme
between shopping, offices and housing. The
programme can be distributed flexibly, with the
main division between commercial spaces on
the ground floor and the cores reserved for the
apartments on the higher levels. Two floors are
reserved for office spaces, these could easily
be reduced or enlarged. The office spaces are
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Asan Baebang Mixed-use Complex
Location: Asan Baebang, South Korea Designers:
DeStefano Partners Competition date: 200 Completion
date: N/A Competition name: Asan Baebang Mixed-use
Complex Competition Site area: 5,000 sqm Place in
the Competition: Award of Special Recognition
Awarded reason:
The project has won the award for its innovative
coniguration, good use of space and collection
of unique structures.
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Retail mall Residential Ofice Parking spaces
The programme includes retail, residential and this new development. The other point towers
office components. A four-storey retail mall with gradually diminish in scale from this prominent
a department store and movie theatres serves structure. Along the east side of the site is a long
as a base for five residential towers and three mid-rise bar building with undulating roof features,
which mimics the linear character of the train
office towers. These towers range from 24 to 2
storeys in height. The development includes 5,000 and evokes the image of speed. It also serves to
below-grade parking spaces. All retail activities shield the elevated train tracks from view.
are organised around the existing stream, which
cuts through the site and is conceived as the “
front door”, or focal public open space of the
development. A retail street sweeps through the
site from east to west unifying all the secondary
feature spaces, including a water-court, a
shopping globe and a performance stage.
Anchoring the main public open space is the
tallest building on the site, a 3-storey serviced
apartment tower which serves as the icon for
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Changchun 1948 Functional area
Restaurants Entertainment Commerce Leisure Culture
Ofice Service Residence

Location: Changchun, China Designers: Frank Krueger,

Klevis Koco Competition date: 2010 Completion
date: Unknown Competition name: Changchun
14 Competition Site area: 5,000 sqm Place in the
Competition: irst prize

Awarded reason:
The project’s traditional style and modern
architecture combines harmoniously. It reflect
the characteristics of the building itself. It perfect
preserved the original architectural style and
relects the architecture of historical signiicance,
also showed the new period of architecture.

Located in Changchun, China’s northeastern

Jilin Province, “Changchun14”, formerly
Changchun diesel engine plant factory built in
14. The site will be transformed to become a
high-end mixed-use commercial area.
The new “Changchun14” site will marry dining,
entertainment, office and residential with its
own kindergarten designed for its residents.
Commercial potential is maximized thanks to
intentional positioning of each function. The
iconic entrance enhances the site, giving its
users a complete overview of the old and new
architecture styles. Tailored to the local culture
and weather conditions, each existing building
is seamlessly integrated together with the new
creating a flexible and comfortable landmark
in the region adaptable to all seasons. “
Changchun14” is an outstanding project case
study of how to transform an industrial site into a
successful mixed-use commercial centre.

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L.A.R.S. Functional area
Apartments: 470 Retail: 10,350 sqm Ofices: 11,100 sqm
Cultural and social facilities: 8,500 sqm Parking places:
1,500

Location: Bergen, Norway Designers: SMAQ – Sabine

Müller, Andreas Quednau Photographer: Petr Baletka
Competition date: 200 Completion date: 2013
Competition name: European  – European urbanity and
strategic projects Place in the Competition: second prize

Awarded reason:
It has unique design concept.

L.A.R.S.’s strategy is to pull on-hand conditions and

continuities across the location and the highway
and let them work with, against or next to each
other. At the base of the project lies the mall “
jump-over”: the foot print of the existing shopping
centre is scaled onto the opposite side of the
highway. An underground car park materialises
this conceptual site – defining measure. The
complementary initial is brought about by the
landscape “swirl”. The three nearby landscapes
are extended and pulled towards each other
via bridging platforms across the highway. The
emerging morphology is decisively determined
by the demands of a landscape related dwelling.
L.A.R.S. distinguishes two practices: viewing
and walking. “Walk blocks” form a U-shaped
compound with an open courtyard orientated
to the landscape connections. In contrast, the
viewing towers build up a tight relation to the
surrounding hilltops. They are turned towards a
speciic vista and are placed in such a way that
they do not restrain each other’s sight lines.

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FENIX Functional area
Amusement facility Casino Sports centre Shopping mall
Hotel Ofice

Location: Tbilisi, Georgia Designers: Shin Takamatsu

Architect and Associates Co.,Ltd. Competition date:
200 Completion date: Unknown Competition name:
International Selected Competition for Rike Square
Complex, Georgia Site area: ,000 sqm Place in the
Competition: irst prize

At the site of the Mutkvari River, lowing through

the middle of Tbilisi, a mighty complex facility was
envisaged. The complex includes an amusement
facility, casino, sports centre, shopping mall, hotel,
and office. The requirements of the programme
were not much strict. Through an analysis of the
programme, the architect reached a result that
each required facility was a fluid and variable
from the functional detail to the volume. Based
on the analysis, an extremely luminous idea was
led. The idea was to cover the various facilities
with a monolithic structure. Also, the architect
planned to create a suitable iconic landmark for
the capital while reserving the flexibility and the
programme. Also, the required bridge across the
Mutkvari River became a part of the architecture.
The architecture connecting the historical area
across the Mutkvari River with the elastic bridge
was named “FENIX”.

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Campus Centre Functional area
Commercial space Ofice component Meeting facility
Athletic centre Residential component Mid-range hotel
Parking garage

Location: Miami, USA Designers: OAD Photographer:

OAD Competition date: 200 Completion date: 2012
Site area: 2,500,000 sqm

The project’s mass is sensitively sited to respect

its immediate context – establishing a friendly
pedestrian experience of plazas, quads, and
arcades that provide space for the enjoyment
of life. The form, an extruded quadrangle, is
carved to maximise openness, flow of activity,
and views through the large contoured centre.
The proposed project is a mix-use building that,
in addition to housing the College’s Centre, will
include two-level street fronting commercial
space wrapping the entire base of the building
as well as an open-air campus “Arts Quad” – that
serves as the main distribution level to various
programmatic components of the College. The
project also incorporates an ofice component; a
meeting facility, an athletic centre, a residential
component with small studio, and one-bedroom
rental units; and a 300 rooms, full service mid-
range hotel. The parking garage is proposed to
be completely underground, innocuous to the
above ground functions.

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COR Functional area
Commercial Ofice Fitness Residential spaces (113
residences from studios to penthouses)

Location: Miami, USA Designers: OAD Photographer: insulation, shading for natural cooling, enclosure
Dbox Competition date: 200 Completion date: 2011 for terraces, armatures for turbines and loggias
Site area: 40,000 sqm Construction area: 1,2,00 sqm for congregating on the ground. Comprising
commercial, office, fitness, live/work and pure
residential spaces, COR provides a uniquely
lexible platform for lifestyle enhancement. Upon
completion, COR will be seeking a LEED Platinum
COR, the first sustainable, mixed-use certiication.
condominium in Miami, Florida represents
a dynamic synergy between architecture,
structural engineering and ecology. COR
extracts power from its environment utilising the
latest advancements in wind turbines, photovoltaic
’s, and solar hot water generation – while
integrating them into its architectural identity. A
hyper-efficient exoskeleton shell simultaneously
provides building structure, thermal mass for

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1. SMAQ 10. David Baker + Partners T +310 3-11

T +4 30 20 34 T +415  00 F +310 3-22 28. Joubert Architecture
F +4 30 221 215 F +415  103 T +31 10 4131011
20. 3LHD
2. UN STUDIO 11. Kincl Ltd T +35 1 2320200 29. Destefanoand partners
T +31 20 50 20 40 T +35 1 45 1 22 F +35 1 2320100 T +312 3 4321
F +31 20 50 20 41 F +35 1 4 2 32 F +312 3 4322
21. KSV Krüger
3. GlR arquitectios 12. Bjarke Ingels T +4 30 2 30 31-0 30. logon-architecture
T +52 1 33 0340 T +45 2 21 2 2 F +4 30 2 30 31-10 T + 21 2 1 32 0
F +52 1 33 0340 F + 21 2 1 54 
13. MVRDV 22. NRJA
4. ice-architects T +31 10 4 2 0 T +1 2 20145 31. Shin Takamatsu
T +44 20 3215 0015 F +31 10 4 3 2 F ++1 2 21125 T +1 5 21 002
F +44 20 3215 001 F +1 5 21 0
14. Willy Müller Architects 23. REX
5. 5 plusd esign T +34 3 31 50 2 T +1 4 230 55 32. Benoy
T + 21 103 25 F +34 3 31  34 F +1 4 230 55 T + 1 2 403 444
F + 21 103 
15. ABSTRAKT Studio 24. Riken Yamamoto
6. OA+D Architects T +41 30-310 T +45 22 240
T +345 45 2 F +41 44-45 F +45 22 342
F +345 45 153
16. MANUELLE GAUTRAND ARCHITECTURE 25. LOOS ARCHITECTS
7. drd-studio T +33 15 50 4 T +31 20 330012
T +213 32 411 F +33 15 50 4 F +31 20 2000

8. milieuarchitects 17. Fentress Architects 26. OFIS Arhitekti

T +44 20 402 43 T +303 22 5000 T +3 1 42004
F +3 1 42005
9. Henn 18. Piuarch
T +4  5235-0 T +3 020130 27. Labscape
F +4  5235-123 F +3 02550 T +1 212 5 12
19. Eric Owen Moss F +1 212 5 511