Created by Ben Oostrum & Rob Bonneur (from VVLFB Architects) are the ‘Cube Brick’ and ‘Line Brick Horizontal’. These brick patterns will be produced by Wienerberger, the world’s largest brick manufacturer.

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Fake Hills is a building which will offer residential, office and hotel facilities. The 430,000 sqm project by MAD architects is currently under construction. It is located on a waterfront site in Beihai, China.

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‘In a city covered by over 4,000 square miles of asphalt and cinder block,  SYNTHe, an urban rooftop garden prototype designed by SCI-arc professor and architect Alexis Rochas, takes the green roof movement a step further.

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‘SsD is among a group of 100 architects to design villas for the Ordos 100 project curated by Ai WeiWei and selected by Herzog and deMeuron.

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The eVolo 09 Skyscraper Competition just announced three winners and 15 special mentions. For the 2009 edition, eVolo invited architects, engineers, and designers to explore new ideas and concepts for vertical density.

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The Bahrain World Trade Center, which was designed to have three giant turbines provide power to the building, was finally completed in April 2008.

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Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower in Shinjuku Tokyo Nishi-Shinjuku’s ’skyscraper forest’ of concrete opened in October 2008. Looking like a six-sided fountain pen wrapped in masking tape, the 81,000 square-meter structure houses retail spaces and the Mode Gakuen design school.

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