The special feature of this eye-catching the architecture design with its red glass panels is the so-called i-modulFassade. The Capricorn House was designed by Gatermann + Schossig Architekten is located in Medienhafen, Düsseldorf, Germany. The Capricorn House’s location, greatly subject to sound pollution, lead to the devel-opment of a multi-functional facade module that contains the [...]

This House that is called Dupli Casa, the geometry of the building is based on the footprint of the house that previously was located on the site, originally built in 1984 and with many extensions and modifications since then is located in Ludwigsburg, Germany, was designed and completed by Jürgen Mayer H. Architects in 2006-07. [...]

The museum is currently undergoing a major renovation and expansion project, dubbed Renaissance ROM, located at the corner of Bloor Street and Avenue Road, north of Queen’s Park and on the east side of Philosopher’s Walk in the University of Toronto. The centrepiece is the recently-opened Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, designed by architect Daniel Libeskind and [...]

The UFA Cinema Center, designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au in 1998 in Dresden, Germany.The design is characterized by two intricately interconnected building units: The Cinema Block, with eight cinemas and seating for 2600, and the Crystal, a glass shell which serves simultaneously as foyer and public square.
The urban design concept of the UFA Cinema Center [...]

It’s hardly a secret that Germany has long been at the forefront of energy-saving design. Even back in the early Modern days, its health-oriented obsession with getting natural light and cross ventilation into living quarters paved the way for later passive-energy-saving strategies. In the 1920s, “zeilenbau” planning principles, calling for long, narrow housing blocks to [...]