His current work involves the Trump international hotel and Towers , the Minto Midtown development , and Emaar Dubai development . More than 400 articles have been published by leading professional magazines in addition the work has appeared in a number of architectural texts . He has written two books ” Healing the hospital ” and ” Multi-Use Architecture in the Urban Context ” .
Two books have been written ” Eberhard Zeidler : In search of human space ” ( Ernst & Sohn ) . Among the many awards and honor he has received  is the gold medal of the RAIC and four honor degrees for universities . From 1984 to 2000 , Mr. Zeidler was an adjunct professor of architectural design at the University of Toronto .

Zeidler Partnership Architects
The Firm’s continuity in terms of overlapping partners can be traced back to 1980. Today, the firm is led by three senior partners: Tarek El–Khatib, Alan Munn, Eb–Zeidler and eight general partners.

Toronto is the head office for the firm with other offices in Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria, Beijing, Berlin, London and West Palm Beach. The firm has some 220 staff, worldwide.

Zeidler projects cover virtually the entire range of architectural building types, urban design, master planning and interior design. The scale of projects varies from large, mixed-use complexes to small residences and offices. The firm’s major body of work is historically located in Canada and the USA, with a significant, rapidly growing international presence in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Zeidler Partnership Architects has been recognized by its peers with over 130 national and international awards.

Canada Place, Vancouver

Built upon a 1,100-foot long pier that was significantly extended in 2003, this 1.78 million-square foot mixed-use waterfront development initially served as the Canadian pavilion for expo ‘86.

The complex now contains the 384,000-square foot Vancouver Trade and convention center, and 243,000-square foot world trade center office. It also features the 505-room pan pacific hotel, 43,000 square feet of retail space, fully equipped five-berth cruise ship terminal, 480-seat 3-D IMAX cinema, bus depot, and 770 parking space. Promenades, located on both sides of the building and on various levels, offer dramatic views of the mountains and Stanley Park. They lead to an urban piazza at the and of the pier which features a 1,000-seat amphitheatre, restaurants, and small shopping center.

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From 1988 onwards, he worked in Zurich for the Museum für Gestaltung, where he was responsible for numerous exhibitions.

In 1993 he set up his own studio, and subsequently worked for firms such as Alias, Authentics, Edra, Driade, Luceplan, Thonet, Zanotta, etc. Recently Alfredo Haberli has developed products for Asplund, Bd Ediciones de Diseno, Cappellini, Classicon, Iittala, Leitner, Moroso, Offecct, Rorstrand.

Alfredo Haberli’s work and designs have been shown in numerous exhibitions throughout Europe. He has received many awards for his work over the years.

Take a line for a walk 2003

Lounge chair
MOROSO

The modeling method of rapid prototyping served as the starting point for this design. The result was a lightweight structure for a lounge chair with enormous wings.

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Snohetta is an integrated landscape, interior and Architectural practice, where a full 25% of the company is composed of landscape and interior architects sharing studio spaces directly with architects.

A high percentage of staff are international citizens with experience working in the USA and the Middle East, While presently enjoying the atmosphere of contemporary European design. As a result of this understanding Snohetta has received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

Finally, a number of similar cultural projects have been undertaken or completed in the recent year providing the firm with a strong reputation in the filed. Working in the international market for over 15 years.

Snohetta is often associated with projects outside of its home in Oslo.

ALEXANDRIA LIBRARY

In 2002 the new library of Alexandria in Egypt reopened its doors for the first time in nearly 2000 years.

The culmination of an international effort lasting over 12 years, the library is one of the most contemporary in the world, in its over 800,000 square feet a rang of museums and public assembly areas can also be found. Despite its large size, the building often feels humane and intimate in scale, while also having an atmosphere of dignity and calm repose.

Outside of the library a large reflecting pool and public plaza link the building to the nearby Mediterranean and the city of Alexandria, The pools help to cool the area around the building and naturally collect dust to clean the air near the building. The building’s unusual tilting form links the architecture directly with the landscape creating a unifying atmosphere that extends into the interior of the building. The building and ground change atmosphere throughout the day and seasons. The water, vegetation and shape of the building help allay the sound of the nearby busy street, creating a calm and comfortable, yet public and open space for those visiting the building and those simply passing by.

Web site : www.snoarc.no

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Born in Munich in 1964, he worked in various workshops before studying architecture and design at the University of Kassel. He gained valuable experience in design studios in Milan, Munich and Berlin before opening his own design workshop in 1992: Andreas Struppler Design in Munich.

Distinctive and clear products have been his trademark since then. For companies like Sedus, Interstuhl or Wittmann he has designed successful products that reflect his philosophy: “convenience and intelligent utility for offices, leisure or the home”.

Mitos

Interstuhl, from 2000 to 2002.

Transmotion mechanism with relax button, Adjustable armrests,pivoting up to 180 degrees.
Adjustable, moveable headrest countersynchronized with the movement of the backrest the headrest includes a coat-hanger.
Active seat-depth adjustment (Astiv).
Adjustable lumbar support (Air-Pressure Technology).
Transparent plastic parts (optional). Mobile workstation as extra with the chair. Stackable guest-chairs, with moving comfort-backrest.

Web site: www.struppler-design.de

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Bjarke Ingels

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1974.

Bjarke Ingels studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts Architect School in Copenhagen from 1993 to 1999. During studies he also attended Technica Superior de Arquitectura in Barcelona (1996–1997). He worked at Office of Metropolitan Architecture and Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam (1998–2001).

In 2001, founded the practice PLOT together with Belgian OMA colleague Julien de Smedt. In January 2006, PLOT disbanded and Bjarke Ingels created Bjarke Ingels Group, BIG, while his former partner founded Julien de Smedt Design, JDS Design.

The group Bjarke Ingels is a company which is headquartered in Copenhagen, which is made up of 85 architects, designers, builders and thinkers working in the fields of architecture, town planning , Research and development.

Won several prestigious International awards like Henning Larsen Prize in 2001.

MARITIME YOUTH HOUSE

Project Team
Bjarke Ingels, Julien De Smedt, Annette Jensen, Bo Benzon, Finn Norkjaer, Henning Stuben, Jem Jensen, Mads H Lund, Marc Jay, Nina Ter-borch.

Consultant:
Birch & Krogboe A/s
Jseper Gudman, Strutur

Instead of using 25% of the project’s budget, originally allocated by the clients to clean the polluted soil of the site, we discovered that the pollution was made of heavy metals and therefore stable. So if the seabed was kept undisturbed there was no need to remove or clean it. Instead we laid out a wooden deck over the entire site thus spending money for the architecture rather than the harmful and invisible contamination.

Web site : www.big.dk

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Studied industrial design at Essen Polytechnic and the Münster University for Applied Sciences. While studying, he managed his own projects at sieger design.
At the beginning of 2003, he established sieger design GmbH & Co. KG, in which he is a managing partner, with his brother Christian.
In close cooperation with his brother, both developed the family–owned sieger design into today’s full–service provider focusing on industrial design and architecture, design management and graphic design.

Won many awards for innovative product developments, including for Alape, Blome, Duravit, Dornbracht, for the brand management and corporate design for Ritzenhoff and Octopus.

Rain Sky

Dornbracht, 2005

This is the very idea of a shower being suddenly no longer a shower but
a sky from which it rains like in Nature. And even more wonderful than
that, for unlike Nature, from a RAIN SKY it always rains exactly as you
want it to.

Website: www.sieger-design.com

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Bing Thom

 The Founding Principal of  Bing Thom Architects (BTA). His distinguished career has been recognized with Canada’s highest honour, the Order of Canada, for his contribution to architecture. He has also been awarded the Golden Jubilee Medal for services to his country, and most recently, was privileged to be the recipient of an Honourary Degree of Laws bestowed by Simon Fraser University, for major commitment to architecture and community.

As Bing Thom’s partner and long time colleague, Michael Heeney’s (BA, BArch, MArch, MAIBC, LEED) own background and accomplishment exemplifies the range of talent gathered together at Bing Thom Architects. His business acumen is demonstrated by undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto and a later UBC diploma in urban land economics. His skills as a designer and master builder were honed with a degree in architecture from the University of British Columbia, and more recent accreditation as a LEED Accredited Professional, the benchmark in Green design.

Since 1980, Bing Thom Architects (BTA) undertakes selectively few projects at any given time to ensure Bing Thom and at least one Director are personally involved in all stages of every project. The core team of 40 experienced staff provide the foundation for larger teams that are assembled on a project-by-project basis by professionals from 20 different countries, who collectively speak 18 distinct languages.

Central City

Surrey. BC - Vancouver

Website : www.bingthomarchitects.com

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Born in the province of Messina in 1960 and graduated from the Milan Polytechnic in 1985 and in the same year follows the 1 st prize in the competition ADI with a folding chair (Translation).

As part of the design study Francesco Lucchese collaborates with internationally known companies at international level as Venini, Salviati, Rapsel, Inda, Colombo Design, Titan, Marazzi, Cappellini and Fontana Arte, working in the sector, complement, bath and light.

Receives with projects light nell’89 and in’92 the first prize at the Young & design, in 2000 with a library.

The exhibitions and installations made receive numerous reports in Italy and abroad.

Teached at the Brera and then continue at the Politecnico of Milan at the Faculty of Design. Also teached in Switzerland, Ukraine and Moscow with conferences and seminars.

His work as an architect is defined through major projects like the renovation of a building dell’800, now a museum of agriculture, many interventions furniture and residences, the construction of a nursery and prizes for participation in competitions.

Les Fleurs Hotel

Centre of Sofia–Bulgaria

Hotel Les Fleurs is a newly built boutique hotel that combines modern comforts and amenities with creativity and elegance including 31 exclusively fitted non-smoking guest rooms to assure business and leisure travelers a pleasant and relaxing stay in Bulgaria’s capital city.

Website : www.francescolucchese.com

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Because of his avant-garde and strikingly different buildings, Will Alsop has always been considered something of a maverick in the British architectural scene.

Alsop is part of a group of British architects who studied in the years of Pop Art in the 1960s and were encouraged to look beyond existing buildings for their inspiration. At the Architectural Association, Alsop absorbed ideas from pop music, science fiction films and even comic books for his inspiration.

Will Alsop follows a parallel path as an artist. He was a tutor of sculpture at Central St. Martins College of Art & Design, London, for several years, has held many other academic posts, and actively promotes the artistic contribution to built environments; forming collaborations with many artists in different media to this end.

Sharp Centre for Design

Toronto, Canada

The elevated “table top” extension to the Ontario College of Art and Design, with its striking black and white pixilated skin and 12 multi-colored legs, stands 26 meters above the mixed Victorian and modern streetscape.

Web site : www.alsoparchitects.com

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Amongst their commissions are houses such as the Sfera building in Kyoto, interiors such as the Operakallaren gourmet restaurant in Stockholm.

The trio have designed a large number of furniture, carpets and other products for Swedish manufacturers including Asplund, David Design, Nola, Skandiform and Swedese as well as products for Italian companies including Boffi and Cappellini.

Their works have earned numerous awards and, among other distinctions, and was the first Swedish architects ever to be exhibited in the international section of the Venice Architecture Biennale (2004).

Pebbles

Seating Island – Cappellini 2001

Inspired by beach pebbles. Flat, irregular round stones, tumbled smooth by millions of ocean waves. Soft and beautiful to the touch and to the eye.

Pebbles is an adjustable piece of seating furniture that is not a sofa but is best described as a “seating island”. An upholstered disc, about two meters wide, forms a generous seating platform, while a pillar supports a smaller, centered disc (also upholstered). The smaller disc functions as a backrest, armrest, table/work surface or even a second seating platform. An unusual piece of furniture design - a whole new typology for seating.

The Pebbles seating island still one of Claesson, Koivisto & Rune greatest successes, having won design awards and world recognition.

Website : www.claesson-koivisto-rune.se

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