Eight Spruce Street ( Beekman Tower) / By Gehry Partners, LLP

8 Spruce Street, Newyork, United States
Gehry Partners, LLP
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Photo © Courtesy of Gehry Partners, LLP

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Structural Design of the Year 
The 867 ft, 76-story iconic Beekman Tower, designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry, is New York City’s tallest residential tower. Located in the middle of the block bounded by Nassau, Beekman, Spruce and Gold Streets, just south of the Brooklyn Bridge, the 1.1 million SF mixed-use building has redefined the skyline of Downtown Manhattan.

Kurilpa Bridge / By Cox Architecture

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cox Architecture
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Photo © Courtesy of Christopher Frederick Jones

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: TRANSPORT

Kurilpa Bridge is the world’s largest structure to be based upon the principles of ‘tensegrity’, the term coined by Richard Buckminster Fuller to describe a system of balanced compressive and tensile forces.

Saint Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church / By Marlon Blackwell Architect

Springdale, United States
Marlon Blackwell Architect
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Photo © Courtesy of Timothy Hursley--At night, St. Nicholas presents a glowing, balanced composition. The architects embedded blue and yellow glass windows and a red cross in the white, western elevation. To further delineate the church, they surrounded it with a skirt of black mulch.

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: CIVIC AND COMMUNITY
Saint Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church is the result of a transformation of an existing metal shop building into a sanctuary and fellowship hall in anticipation of a larger adjacent sanctuary on the same site.

The Scotts Tower / By UNStudio

38 Scotts Road, Singapore
UNStudio
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Image © Courtesy of UNStudio

Designed to conserve space whilst maximizing live/work/play areas, The Scotts Tower presents a new dimension of functional and flexible vertical space.

Sarpi Border Checkpoint in Georgia / By J. Mayer H. Architects

Sarpi, Georgia
J. Mayer H. Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Beka Pkhakadze

November 2011 marks the completion of Sarpi Border Checkpoint. Designed by J. MAYER H. architects the customs checkpoint is situated at the Georgian border to Turkey, at the shore of the Black Sea.