The Norwegian Coastal Administration has revealed visualizations of the world's first full-scale ship tunnel that would link two fjords on either side of the Stad Peninsula in Norway, allowing ships to bypass the most exposed, most dangerous waters on the Norwegian coast. With the project now in the feasibility stage, architecture studio Snøhetta has produced a series of rendered design concepts to help the project gain traction... >>>

NextOffice and Alireza Taghaboni have released images of their proposed Afarinesh Tower in Shiraz, Iran. The tower is formed as a regular, uniform core housing administrative spaces, which lose their rigid order as the floor levels change, and the program becomes recreational. The complex is located in the north of Shiraz, and contains a series of floating volumes housing a cinema, sports area, and mixed-use retail program. The cinema and sports halls are understood as suspended masses floating in space, induced by separating the upper and lower halls and creating the middle level as a lobby. >>>