Exciting and groundbreaking construction projects - worldwide

An old post office building becomes a dynamic cultural center

Transparent passageways measuring 25 m in length extend between the old building, a jewel of modernist architecture at the beginning of…

Tripla comes into being through Open BIM

The Helsinki metropolitan area is one of the fastest growing regions in Europe. Central Pasila, located only three kilometers from downtown Helsinki, is the…

Comfort temperature in the classrooms

This school building is characterized by its openness and transparency while maintaining the small scale within its various departments. It includes an advanced…

Use of solid concrete results in filigree construction

From a bird’s eye view, a gas station in Matúškovo in Slovakia boasts three conjoined snail-house shaped discs with diameters of 8 to 10 meters.…

A huge cube thrown onto the beach

MuCEM, the city’s most spectacular museum, is dedicated to Mediterranean civilizations at their most pivotal stages. It is located at the far end of the old port,…

A musician’s dream comes true

The Budapest Music Center serves many functions: The promotion of classical, contemporary and jazz music as well as the accommodation of a comprehensive music library.…

A residential estate in the context of climate protection

The property comprises 58 apartments in four apartment units in passive house standard. The overall energy concept of the climate protection…

Honorable Mention on the Environment Top Ten Green Projects Awards

Coney Island's Stillwell Avenue Terminal is the largest above-ground station in the New York City subway system. For the…

Combining energy in the local district heating network

The aim of this project was to supply heat from renewable energies to a primary school complex and neighboring residential area. The…

Building’s floor plan is based on furrows of a ploughed field

The residential home, designed by architecture office LEVENBETTS, is located in upstate New York in the USA. Vectorworks was used to…

Living on the vertical village street

The 100-meter-high residential building located in a new quarter of the city in the north of Vienna contains more than 300 apartments – many of which are…

New training grounds for the Brabantia Eindhoven soccer club

A multifunctional building with numerous sports facilities for Brabantia Eindhoven. The newly built complex with the rounded corners…

DIGITAL WORKFLOW ON A MEGA PROJECT

The advantages of the BIM working method are fully exploited during implementation. Stuttgart 21 as a part of the Stuttgart-Ulm rail project is one of the largest…

Lichtwiese Campus of Darmstadt Technical University awarded "The German Sustainable Building Certification"

Darmstadt Technical University was awarded the silver "German Sustainable Building…

Customized, comprehensive and compassionate care

HKS is one of the top architectural firms practicing worldwide, specializes in healthcare, education, sports and hospitality design. The firm recently…

Rehab unit meets all patient's requirements

Architecture office wörner traxler richter designed an urban novelty in the form of the Health Center of the Tübingen University Clinic: Its extraordinary…

We meet Jonas Thornqvist in the clouds. Well, not literally but we’re on the top floor of the WSP Stockholm building. There’s a great view over the city and the interior design team must have taken…

HOK, a global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm, was engaged to design two projects simultaneously for one of the largest healthcare providers in the United States. Each campus…

With the precision of Swiss clockwork

A project of the century which began in several locations at the end of the 1990s is coming to a close with commissioning planned for December 2016. With a…

Commissioning of Panama’s largest infrastructure project since the canal was built

The second Panama bridge was opened for traffic after just under two years’ construction. It is part of the…

The Sky Park Residence apartment blocks are the first phase of the Sky Park multi-purpose complex located close to the centre of Bratislava. There are three identical residential towers with 31 floors…

While there are rules, construction still abounds—most notably in the refurbishment business. Specialist Refurbishment Contractors, Forcia, Ltd., have long served the construction needs of Central…

The new Port House consists of two buildings: a restored former fire station and new construction that has a truly remarkable sculptural form. This elongated volume is approximately 100 m long, 24 m…

Pearwood ensures listening pleasure

The Austrian Feldkirch is nestled in the cultural landscape of Felsenau and is home to an event building which was completely rebuilt after its predecessor was…

Paris is growing skyward

After more than 30 years, a change in municipal planning allows for the construction of the 50 meters tall residential and office building ZAC Masséna on the left bank of the…

From their design approach to their finished projects, the team at Flansburgh Architects doesn’t want to be typical — they want to be better. For over 50 years, the Boston-based firm has led its team…

First museum in passive house construction

The new building of the Ravensburg Art Museum in Southern Germany is the world's first certified museum in passive house construction and was awarded with…

In mid-2016, the well known football club SK Rapid Wien moved to its new home, the Allianz Stadium. The company Oberndorfer Betonwerke, one of Austria's leading precast construction companies and a…

Al Janoub is the first stadium to be built from scratch for the 2022 World Cup. It seats 40,000 spectators in tournament mode and will be used up the quarter finals of the FIFA World Cup, after which…

Dynamic and innovative new headquarter

Barco, a global technology company headquartered in Belgium, needed a centralized place combining its two sites in Kortrijk and Kuurne, Belgium, to limit…

Mathias P Nilsson is a lucky man. He works in probably the best project room I have ever seen. It’s like the result of an interior designer’s perfect brief. On the one wall is an interactive screen…

New prospects for old office building

Binckhorsthof, located in the Hague, is an approximately 30-year-old office building and former headquarters of the Dutch Royal Airforce. The building had been…

The floating island of energy

Sustainability: A term that is so overused that one is reluctant to utter it. And this also goes for “sustainable building,” which has become a standard phrase whose…

The Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Complex is a 131,000 sq. ft. complex which houses all aviation mechanics responsible for the maintenance of Huey and Cobra helicopters stationed at…

A luxury-class weekend retreat

This family weekend retreat is located on South Pender Island, BC. The building is approximately 2,500 square feet and contains a simple program—an open social space…

When you meet architectural office and general contractor IttenBrechbühl AG, you’ll find approximately 320 employees who are able to realize large and complex buildings from basic design to…

Timeless design and ideal working environment in the St Martin Tower

The 18-storey St Martin Tower in Frankfurt was completed in 2015. Its lightness and elegance serve to impress the viewer of this…

For Assael Architecture, what started as a humble beginning with two staff members grew into an award-winning practice comprising several teams, directors, associate directors, and managers. With over…

For designers at ROJO Architecture, working in a space that's suited for play provides just the right mental break to spark their next great idea. Their office sits inside of what was once a busy…

Economical Use of Natural Materials from the Region

This new hotel and congress complex is situated near to the Milan and the future Expo 2015 area. The new Doubletree by Hilton offers 240 rooms,…

Stantec, a global leader in the building industry, needed a solution beyond spreadsheets and homegrown workflows to standardize project planning, streamline process and integration with Revit, all…

1,700 trees for a good climate

The Sagamihara Campus of the Aoyama Gakuin University near Tokyo comprises 20 buildings on an area of more than 160,000 m² and provides space for around 10,000 students…

Award-Winning Concept for Waterfront House in New Zealand

Based on five months of voting by the community of "ArchitectsJURY.com", the "jury" selected the waterfront house project from Aotea, New…

"Green" architecture and historic conservation

Red River College Campus is a state-of-the-art business, multi-media, and information technology learning centre. The project was built on a brownfield…

Futuristic Design Meets Sustainability

The Econia Business Park, in Helsinki, Finnland is being built in terms of sustainable development. The developer and the builder have developed a unique…

Belgian Sports Hall Awarded Energy Awards 2007

The community institution "De Zande" is responsible for receiving and supporting some 40 girls who have been entrusted to the institution by the…

Oslo Opera House: please walk on the roof

Oslo’s opera house gives the impression of an iceberg rising out of a Fjord. The around 20,000 m² measuring freely accessible roof is completely tiled in…

Immobilien, vor allem größere Objekte, werden heute in der Regel verkauft, bevor der erste Spatenstich getan ist. Um Käufer anzuziehen, muss ein Projekt sehr attraktiv präsentiert werden, denn nur so…

Eco-friendly living combines with a distinctive design

The Villanova Icône project was designed by the award-winning firm Hamonic+Masson & Associés of Paris, France. This 17-story residential tower…

The oldest evidence of creative intelligence

The Schöningen spears and other wooden instruments have made the archeological site one of a kind worldwide; a place where one can find out how Homo…

Enjoyable holidays in Rio de Janeiro

The Formosa Beach Hotel, located in Rio de Janeiro (BR), has been fully modeled and coordinated using BIM from the early design stage and onwards. The complete…

Employees are an important target group when using our software solutions for the Operate & Manage segment, i.e. for the management of a property. For AXA Belgium, its smart building is a means to an…

A modern hospital is a complex environment where care is provided around the clock. This requires highly serviced buildings with no margin for error in meeting their occupants’ needs. To achieve this,…

Natural Geothermal Energy for Environmentally Friendly Energy Supply

This project is the first geothermic power station of this size in the Netherlands, in which heat from inside the earth (ca. 2km)…

Bowden Centre won Australia's most prestigious architecture awards

The Bowden Centre, completed in February 2007 is a new educational and multipurpose resource building at Mt Annan Botanic Garden,…

Central meeting place on campus

The Student Service Center of Erasmus University Rotterdam came into being in a contrasting interplay of sustainability and user-friendliness, transparency and…

The Advantages of BIM

“Thanks to BIM, we can achieve a very high level of cost accuracy, which we used on the Giessen Tower project for both the preliminary design and construction.” – Matthias Moog,…

ICC Sydney is a $1.5 billion development being delivered by the NSW Government and Darling Harbour Live (comprising of Lendlease, Hostplus, Capella Capital, AEG Ogden and Spotless) as the epicentre of…

Nottingham University supports collaboration between research and local businesses

Won as part of a national design competition (project value £4.4m), the Ingenuity Centre houses local and national…

The 123,000-square-foot, multi-functional Jerry Richardson Indoor Stadium on the Wofford College campus in Spartanburg, South Carolina, serves as the home for the college’s basketball and volleyball…

Örebro in Sweden is going through an exciting development as a knowledge city with the transformation of the expansive university campus. In 2010, JUUL | FROST Architects (JFA) won the competition for…

Zoran 'Kizo' Gorski (Arscom Studio, Kroatien) ist ein langjähriger Cinema 4D User und in der 3D Community bekannt. Vor kurzem hat er die Evermotion Rendering Competition gewonnen und war Betatester…

The hydraulic structure near the town of Želiezovce (Nitra region) is located by the river Hron. It was designed as a multi-purpose construction serving several functions (water management, energy,…

While the names Justin Timberlake, Jay Z, Coldplay, Beyoncé, and Britney Spears conjure up images of incredible concert experiences, the lighting designers behind such great shows are often an…

Spacious conference rooms enhance a modern parliamentary work

The new Brandenburg State Parliament building was designed on the basis of the 18th century Potsdam country castle. A modern palace in a…

“There’s no going back after using Solibri for 30 minutes.” states HKP’s BIM expert, architect Michael Palm. We spend time talking with Michael to better understand how him, HKP and Solibri are…

A milestone in high alpine architecture

Like a shimmering mountain crystal, the Monte Rosa Hut (Monte-Rosa-Hütte, in German) lies nestled between the glaciers of the Pennine Alps in Switzerland at…

Designer-Architekturbüro konstruiert für den Eigenbedarf

Die Architekten Jeff und Tracey Prose von Building Arts Workshop LLC haben in Portland, Oregon, zwei Stadthäuser für den Eigenbedarf…

Excellent infrastructure for cars and bikes

The KAA Gent soccer stadium is conveniently located at the turnpike of two main arterial highways on the site of Ghent’s old wholesale market hall. The…

Newcomer to the Frankfurt skyline

Frankfurt am Main is known across Europe for its unique skyline. It will soon be enriched by a dazzling tower. The OMNITURM will be built right in the middle of the…

A Cornucopia of Functionality

The “Markthal” in the centre of Rotterdam is a singular project in many ways. Being the first covered market hall in the Netherlands featuring a prominent horse-shoe…

The Metropol Parasol is the new landmark of the Spanish City of Seville

The huge, mushroom-shaped elements not only provide Seville with shade, but also have other attractive uses: The new landmark…

A “head with a boom” represents the central scene of the open-air stage designed for the “Rigoletto” opera presented during the Bregenz Festival in Austria.
The construction is placed on a turntable…

The new building unit at the Vejle Hospital in Denmark is located in the beautiful Vejle Ådal and the picturesque landscape is an important element in the architectural design. The building totals…

While Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) professionals are rarely given proper credit for being innovative, the tech sector of the industry has grown so exponentially over the past…

Multifunctional Building opens Gateway to the Campus

An irregular polyhedron of colliding granite planes is broken by large fissures of glass, opening the interior space to the sun and sending…

Ecological contexts between two rivers

Within the scope of the UNESCO’s global “Man and Biosphere” program, Germany’s national garden show 2015 (BUGA2015) and the “Natura 2000” concept, the “House of…

Revitalizing the Space "Where the Waters Meet"

For the Australian landscape architecture and urban design firm McGregor Coxall, a design has to be more than just a quick solution to a client’s…

Maybe others forget the ‘I’nformation in BIM but that’s what defines our models – we input as much information into them as possible and, of course, what is demanded by customers.” explains Jaakko…

The university hospital of the future

The New Karolinska Solna project is an enormous construction project, which is the size of 24 average-sized skyscrapers. The hospital facilities will consist of…

The Phillips 66 Freeport LPG Export Terminal, located on the Gulf of Mexico in Freeport, TX is a 100-acre facility used for the export of over 4 million barrels liquefied petroleum gas per year.…

Pinnacle Bank Arena serves as the foundation for the $344 million West Haymarket Redevelopment Project in Lincoln, NE. The arena regularly hosts concerts, performances and other live events in…

Unconventional Architecture and Homage to Elvis

World Architecture News gave the Cambridge House its "House of the Month" award in January 2008, calling it an "extraordinary space wrapped in…

The ARP ArchitektenPartnerschaft office is located in Stuttgart with over 80 employees and has been in existence since 1970. Valuing partnership at the core of their thoughts and actions, the firm…

The Pterodactyl is a two-story office building built on top of an existing four-story parking garage in Culver City, CA. This extraordinary structure is formed by the intersection of nine rectangular…

Three centuries of bridge building over the Firth of Forth

The Queensferry Crossing near Edinburgh in Scot­land is a cable­stayed bridge with three pylons over 200 m in height. It is one of the…

Im Auftrag der Schweizer Odinga AG, dem Architekten Max Dudler und der Think Architecture AG hat das Team der in Zürich ansässigen raumgleiter gmbh die Visualisierung des „Blickpunkt Giessen“ in…

Hunting lodge restored to life

The hunting lodge “auf der Platte” has a clear, one-of-a-kind view of the Taunus. After it was destroyed in World War 2, the ruin was given an imposing glass canopy to…

The new headquarters for Sempra Energy in San Diego, CA serves as a benchmark for future hi-rise development in the city. The 16-story structure includes seven levels of parking (four below grade and…

Background

Skanska, one of the world’s largest international construction and project development groups, works on a variety of commercial, residential and public-private projects throughout Europe,…

Fußballweltmeisterschaften werfen immer einen langen Schatten voraus und die für das Jahr 2022 anberaumte, die im Wüstenstaat Katar ausgetragen werden soll, ganz besonders. Aber schon vor der…

In case of MEP contractor Mensonides from Harlingen (NL), this is certainly true: They switched from a traditional 2D drafting approach to using DDS-CAD in February 2016. "Not only because we had the…

Statsbygg is the Norwegian state's key advisor regrading construction and real estate matters, property owners, managers and developers. Statsbygg aims to be the state's first choice in organizing and…

Stilwerk präsentiert eine exklusive Designvielfalt und verbindet alles zum Thema Einrichtung, Wohndesign und Lifestyle unter einem Dach. Vom Klassiker bis zur Avantgarde, von der Küche bis zum…

When the Sunshine Coast Public University Hospital (SCPUH) opens in late 2016 it will revolutionise healthcare on the Coast and offer a range of new and expanded free public hospital services. SCPUH…

We talk a lot about ‘quality’ here at Solibri. What is quality and why does it matter? How do you offer quality and how do you change the perception of quality in the construction industry? It was for…

An exciting path across the gorge:
The Tamina Bridge in the canton of St. Gallen

With an arched span of 265 meters, a superstructure length of 417 meters and a height of 220 meters above the valley…

Big, bigger, The Circle

„The Circle“ comes to live 

The biggest high-rise project in Switzerland is becoming a reality: After six years of intense preparation, the end of April 2015 marked the…

The Port House in Antwerp represents a genius architectural design that integrates an original, unconventional and eye-catching structure with the old fire station, a protected replica of a former…

Visualization inspires architects and clientele

If you want to sell apartments, you have to offer your clientele something special – even if the buildings are not even completed yet. The Bergwelt…

Football icon Santiago Bernabéu faces complete revamp

The stadium, inaugurated in 1947 and named in honor of Spanish soccer star Santiago Bernabéu, has been renovated and extended several times…

The construction project at the summit of the Puy de Dôme volcano was intended to restore the tourist attraction, at least in part, to its natural state.

The site attracts 380,000 tourists annually.…

A lively location of encounters

The building, reminiscent of a finely cut diamond, is located in Freiburg’s historic downtown area, and offers users outstanding service and an ideal environment for…

Das Verwaltungsgebäude der Unternehmensgruppe Unger in Weiden besteht aus einem Untergeschoss mit integrierter Tiefgarage, einem Erdgeschoss und drei Obergeschossen. Im Hinblick auf die Variabilität…

Architectonically sophisticated and sustainably ecological

The Potsdamer Platz complex consists of 17 buildings, ten streets and two squares. Numerous buildings of the ensemble were designed by…

Beste Lage

Durch die intelligente Interaktion zwischen der Immobiliensoftware iX-Haus und dem DocuWare-Archiv ist es den Projektverantwortlichen der W. Johannes Wenzel Dr. gelungen, eine digitale…

Walsh is the general contractor for several Public Private Partnerships, also known as P3, which involve a coordinated effort between the government and private industry to construct large scale…

Environmentally Friendly Waste Water Treatment. Detailed upfront analyses ensure a sure design and the economical use of materials.

ACO Clara sewage treatment plant is designed for the complete…

The different jobs are carried out in several stages, whilst it is not acceptable to close down the mall and refuse access to the 80,000 daily visitors. Since the start, which was approximately eight…

This complex project, involving the construction of a “bridge” hung between two 90 meter high towers, is being built in the IJ in Amsterdam. After winning the tender, the architect approached Van…

The PLANBAR software from Precast Software Engineering played a decisive role in this project. All precast parts of the project were planned using the highly industrialized precast concrete software.…