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Completion of Grand Egyptian Museum


Dublin studio Heneghan Peng Architects has reached completion on the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, more than three decades after plans for the project were announced. Sprawled across a 50,000-square-metre site close to the Pyramids of Giza, the colossal museum houses more than 100,000 pharaonic antiquities – many that have never been made public before. It has a total floor area of 81,000 square meters and, according to Heneghan…

Bloomberg Student Center, USA


Located on the edge of Johns Hopkins' Homewood campus, the Bloomberg Student Center was designed by BIG and interior architect Rockwell Group as the "first-ever" building to be dedicated solely to student life at the campus. Where student activities at Johns Hopkins University were once dispersed, they are now clustered at the Bloomberg Student Center, a village of 29 timber pavilions climbing the natural hill on the university's edge.  …

Huahong Metropolitan Center, China


The construction of this project (formerly known as Wanyu Towerwas forced to suspend in 2014 after the original developer went bankrupt, despite having completed the basic structure. At the end of 2020, Huahong Group acquired this unfinished building and restarted the project. Mudo Architects has designed the Huahong Metropolitan Center. The primary goal of the design was to retain the characteristics of the twin towers while also excavating more space…

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