Beijing based Studio Pei Zhu designed and built the ‘Urban Oasis’ pavilion for the Shenzen Hong Kong Bi City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Their approach to the project was to concentrate on simple local materials and natural forms.

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‘Recent years have seen a rapidly growing interest among contemporary architects in the use of curtain walls to create innovative, attention-grabbing building facades.

With new concerns about the environment and affordable envelopes, the curtain wall represents a microcosm of issues important to architecture: climate responsiveness and energy use, intelligent utilization of resources, and advancements in digital design and fabrication.

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For the ‘Tic-Tac House’, FGMF based their work on a simple everyday object, the clock.

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‘House on the Water’ by Polish firm formodesign is a proposal for a single family home. Designed with sustainability in mind the house takes into consideration water desalination, energy accumulation, ventilation methods, water recycling, heat and energy consumption, tidal and solar energy.

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On September 14th. 2007, Copenhagen architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) have won the competition for the new Danish Maritime Museum in Helsingor.

The design surrounds an existing dry dock, cutting into its walls and bridging across it but otherwise leaving the dock space empty.

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‘Who are the world’s most exciting up-and-coming architects? ‘10 x 10_2′ has 100 definitive answers, provided by 10 influential curators, educators and architects—including Zaha Hadid, Toshiko Mori, and Kurt Foster. Each featured architect is allotted four generously sized, photo-rich pages, with concise yet informative texts.’

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