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Zaha Hadid Architects designs the King Abdullah Financial District metro station, a major hub in Riyadh’s new network

2 December 2024
ZHA continuously refined the station’s design for structural efficiency and environmental performance. The façade’s composition echoes wind-shaped desert sand patterns, with multiple frequencies and reverberations that create complex, natural repetitions. The composition of the station's façade echoes the patterns generated by desert winds in the sand, where multiple frequencies and reverberation generate the complex repetition of patterns evident in the natural world.

Dong Gong designs an original hotel complex in Jingdezhen, China, by reconstructing and expanding a former industrial building

18 October 2024
The Jingyang Camphor Court Hotel offers a new type of hospitality experience, with a spacious, publicly accessible cloister at its heart. The strategy of preserving, renovating, and revitalizing the existing building was fundamental in designing the hotel’s new spaces, serving as an example of adaptive reuse—a highly significant sustainable architectural practice.

Foster + Partners designs the expansion and renovation of Bodegas Faustino with sustainability at its core

4 October 2024
The design by Foster + Partners reinterprets the winery as a whole, creating a stronger connection between the existing buildings and the surrounding vineyard. The vaulted roof draws inspiration from the winery’s industrial heritage, reimagined as a lightweight timber structure. Its catenary profile enhances structural performance while minimizing material use, and its earthy color palette allows the building to blend seamlessly into the landscape.

The architectural metamorphosis of the Alfacs campsite in Tarragona is a project of gradual transformation led by the Bajet Giramé and JAAS studios.

29 June 2024
For this project the architects propose the construction of deliberately ambiguous habitats, between exterior and interior, very diverse, as spacious, communal and sunny as they are intimate and shady, offering corners, topographies, porches, swimming pools and gardens, with a spatial linkage that endows this holiday landscape with vitality.