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18/08/2024

31/03/2023

Beijing Daxing International Airport:
Master Plan - Master Plan was prepared by NACO (Netherlands Airport Consultants)

Construction of the airport began on December 26, 2014 and was led by chief engineer Guo Yanchi by March 2017

Cost of construction - It was initially estimated to be at least 70 billion RMB (US$11.2 billion)

22/02/2023

The Azadi Tower, Tehran (Iran):
The tower is about 45 Meters (148 ft) tall and is completely clad in Mcut marble. It was commissioned by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,
Built in 1971 to mark 2,500 years since the Persian Empire, the Azadi Tower is now Tehran’s most iconic landmark. Over 8,000 white marble blocks from Esfahan make up the 45-metre high tower. The architect, Hossein Amanat, used historical events as inspiration for the design. The main archway combines the arch of the Pre-Islamic ruins at Ctesiphon with the pointed arches of the Islamic period, encapsulating a millennia of Persian history.

Architect - Hossein Amanat

Structural engineer - Ove Arup & Partners

Cost - $6 million (1971-72)

30/01/2023

Wonderful Architecture in Mountains

16/12/2022

One Central Park, Sydney, Australia
Location - Suburb of Chippendale in New South Wales, Australia.

Project Developed as a joint venture between Frasers Property and Sekisui House,

Construction by - BESIX Group subsidiary Watpac

Architect - Foster and Partners,
Ateliers Jean Nouvel
PTW Architects

Owner - Frasers Property Group

The building itself comprises two residential apartment towers, an east and west tower, in addition to a six level retail shopping centre at the base of the towers

08/12/2022

Beijing National Aquatics Centre (Water Cube) Bejing China
Architect - BTW Arhitects

Address - 11 Tianchen E Rd, Chaoyang Qu, Bejing, China

The highly sustainable structure is clad with translucent ETFE (ethyl tetra fluoro ethylene), a tough, recyclable material that weighs just one percent of an equivalent sized glass panel. The Aquatics Centre has a bubble cladding that lets in more light than glass and thoroughly cleans itself with every rain shower. It is also much more resistant to the weathering effects of sunlight than glass and a better isnulation

The outer wall is based on the Weaire–Phelan structure, a structure devised from the natural pattern of bubbles in soap lather using a steel space frame with ETFE cladding. Contextually the cube symbolises earth whilst the circle (represented by the Beijing National Stadium) represents heaven. Hence symbolically the water cube references Chinese symbolic architecture

03/12/2022

The Shah Mosque also known as Royal Mosque or Imam Mosque after Iranian revolution, is a mosque in Isfahan, Iran, standing in south side of Naghsh-e Jahan Square. Built during the Safavid Empire, ordered by Abbas I of Persia.

This is masterpieces of Persian architecture in the Islamic era. The Royal Mosque is registered, along with the Naghsh-e Jahan Square, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Its construction began in 1611, and its splendor is mainly due to the beauty of its seven-colour mosaic tiles and calligraphic inscriptions. The mosque is depicted on the reverse of the Iranian 20,000 rials banknote

01/12/2022

The Jaame Mosque of Isfahan, Iran -

An UNESCO Site, One of the greatest building in the world, which was constructed more than 900 years ago, Gem of Persian architecture in twenty distinct structures varying from the eleventh to eighteenth centuries. The highlights of this mosque, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, include a huge four iwans courtyard, two sanctuaries topped with two amazing domes, the Taj Al Molk Dome considered as the most perfect dome because of its marvelous design, and a small 13th century prayer hall with its prayer niche (Mehrab) known as Uljaito Mehrab, decorated with breathtaking stuccos.

30/11/2022

Museum of the Future: Inside ‘the world’s most beautiful building’

The Museum of the Future comprises 2,400 diagonally intersecting steel beams and zero columns for support, This is 77 Meter tall.

Local architectural firm Killa Design, which won the design competition for the museum in 2015, came up with the shape. According to the architect Shaun Killa, the solid part of the structure represents the knowledge that we have today while the void represents all that we do not yet know — the future.

29/11/2022

Famous Meenakshi Temple in Madurai, Tamilnadu, India. Based on South Indian temple architecture, also called the Dravida Style,

The temple complex covers 15 acres, and has 4,500 pillars and 12 towers -- it's massive! Most astonishing of all is its many sculptures.

Built by Pandayan Emperor Sadayavarman Kulasekaran I (1190 CE–1205 CE).