The Piano House in Anhui Province

If you thought you’ve had enough of crazy architectural styles in Shanghai, wait till you see this piano house in Huainan, Anhui. Inside the transparent violin is the staircase to the house upstairs. Apparently, the building has been built by the local government to draw interest to the newly developed area, but from what we can see, it almost looks like it was built in the sshole of nowhere.
This unique piano house is in Anhui Province, China. This building was designed by the local Chinese government to attract more development to this area. Inside of the transparent violin is the escalator to the building, where a variety of city plans and ideas for the future development are on display.
“The “Piano House” is just finished recently in new district of Huainan City, Anhui Province. The building shapes of a pair of scaled piano and violin. The program is to exhibit the planning model of the new district.”

Dancing House by architects Vlado Miluni? and Frank Gehry

Dancing House (Tan?ící d?m) occupies a fine position by the Vltava River. This stunning building, constructed between 1992-1996, is somewhat of a rarity in Prague; a modern, glass building surrounded by historic architecture.
Dancing House has daring, curvy outlines, which led its architects, Vlado Milunc and the American Frank O Gehry, to initially name it the “Astaire & Rogers Building”, after the legendary dance duo.
The top floor of Dancing House is home to one of the city’s leading restaurants, Celeste Restaurant. Diners can enjoy delightful cuisine and magnificent views over the river and up to Prague Castle.

The Pixel Tower in Dubai
Inspired by moving bubbles within a Champagne glass, the Pixel Tower is designed as a 21st Generation X tower for the young and trendy of Dubai.
Situated at Dubai Waterfront, the residential building consists of 18 floors, is an imaginative and unique design to examine the quality of life through the appreciation of technology living and future aesthetics.
The elevation of Pixel Tower is designed to be a sustainable facade where the geometry of the openings minimize in the southern direction of the sun to minimize heat gain, and maximize in the northern direction of the sun to maximize views to the sea.
With the theme of young and lifestyle living, each apartment would incorporate the latest Cybertecture technology enabling residents to customize and control the appliances within the unit. The building encompasses its own customised high speed wireless internet communication system, residents are able to monitor and control their apartments even outside Pixel Tower through remote monitoring cameras that can be read from mobile phones and PDAs.
Equipped with Cybertecture to allow customization, the Pixel Tower is definitely the forerunner of building towards future living that embodies great design, efficiency, style and technology.
source : www.worldarchitecturenews.com

Regional Manager of Edith Cowan University
The regional manager Ms. Sandy Guo from Edith Cowan University: one of the most comprehensive university from Australian visited ICEdu recently.
Ms. Guo gave ICEdu comprehensive university and courses introduction, and the most updated information for the 2010 enrollment. The deputy manager of ICEdu Tracy Xu communicated with Ms. Guo on the latest company development and the oncoming projects. Based on current platform, both changed opinion and discussed the feasibility of new cooperation.
Edith Cowan University (ECU) is an innovative and forward looking University that is an Australian leader in the provision of professionally focused degree programs, it was founded in 1900. Areas of strength include the ‘knowledge-based’ disciplines of finance and business, computing and IT, media and communications; education; health and social sciences; nursing; visual and performing arts.
ICEdu is a representative of ECU in southwest China.

source : www.icei.cn

Cybertecture Egg James Law in India

The Architecture Building of Cybertecture Egg design is orientated and skewed at an angle to create both a strong visual language and to alleviate the solar gain of the building, also The Architecture Building of Cybertecture Egg has a sky garden on the top of building which performs thermolysis (the dissipation of heat from the surface). PV panels will be installed on top of the building and a wind turbine on the sky gardens will generate electricity. A water filtration system will also be incorporated into the building to recycle grey water for flushing and irrigation purpose.
By using this “Egg” shape, The Architecture Building of Cybertecture Egg compared to a conventional building, the structure has approximately 10-20% less surface area. Within the building, an innovative structure derived from the skin of the egg creates up to 30m spans of columnless floors. The architecture building Cybertecture Egg is sleek and computer designed, with engineering that creates a building of high quality and geometric sophistication. It is hoped this building will act like a “jewel” for the new Central Business District of Mumbai, and will be a worthy neighbour to other esteemed buildings in the district. The building is due for completion by the end of 2010.
source : www.greatfa.com