Saturday, December 13, 2008

The Petronas Twin Towers

The Petronas Twin Towers (also known as the Petronas Towers or Twin Towers), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia are the world's tallest twin buildings.

These towers, which were designed by Cesar Pelli, an Argentine-American architect.

The 120-meter foundations were built by Bachy Soletanche. Hazama Corporation built tower I. Samsung Constructions (the Construction Division of Samsung Corporation), Kukdong Engineering & Construction (both of South Korea) built tower II. The shopping mall beneath both towers was constructed by Birmingham, Alabama based Bill Harbert International.

more at : http://flickr.com/photos/51781693@N00/1671916213

Friday, October 17, 2008

Lend Lease Corporation

Lend Lease Corporation Limited is an Australian-based multinational property management and investment company. 

Bovis Lend Lease division constructs and manages large building projects including Sydney Opera House and Melbourne Park.

read more in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend_Lease_Corporation.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Dubai architecture

Jean Nouvel is designing an opera house for Dubai and a branch of the Louvre next door in Abu Dhabi; the Oslo firm Snohetta has designed a “gateway”; Zaha Hadid is building a skyscraper and a massive office complex, (she's doing the opera house in Abu Dhabi); in January Norman Foster revealed plans to build an eco-city for half a million people in the Persian Gulf, and, last week, designs for the Abu Dhabi World Trade centre; and, busiest of all, there's Rem Koolhaas, with office complexes galore and a his new Waterfront City, unveiled this month.read more at http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/architecture_and_design/article3620340.ece

Saturday, March 22, 2008

the world's longest undersea tunnel


The Trans-Tokyo Bay Motorway named the Tokyo Bay Aqualine, its a toll highway (COST, 3000yen ONE WAY)that spans the narrowest gap of Tokyo Bay, opened to traffic in December 1997 after 31 years of studies with a total cost of 1.44 trillion yen (11,077 million dollars) The 15-kilometer expressway, connecting Kisarazu City of Chiba Prefecture and Kawasaki City of Kanagawa Prefecture, makes it possible to leave the traffic jam of tokyo bay area behind. Of the total length, 4.4 kilometers from the Kisarazu side is a bridge and 9.5 kilometers from the Kawasaki side is an undersea tunnel, which is the world's longest undersea tunnel, running 60 meters deep under the surface of the water. Before the completion of the Aqualine, there were 2 ways to cross the cities , 1.- driving between Kisarazu City and Kawasaki City 100 kilometers along the coastline of Tokyo Bay or 2.- taking a ferry for an hour.. Now the Aqualine connects the two cities in about 15 minutes.


Saturday, March 15, 2008

rear of bungalow

seem to make use of two plots of bungalow land.
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Friday, March 14, 2008

a bungalow

under construction. wonder whether they overcome running floodwater from the rear.
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