Opened on March the 28th, the Skywalk is the first-ever cantilever shaped glass walkway to suspend more than 4,000 feet above a canyon’s floor and extend 70 feet from the canyon’s rim.

The multi-million pound steel enforced structure is located at Grand Canyon West’s Eagle Point.

The Skywalk facility also include a 6,000 square-foot visitor’s center on three levels – underground, first story and second story – containing a museum, movie theater, VIP lounge, gift shop, and several restaurants and bars, including a high-end restaurant called The Skywalk Café that offers outdoor patio and rooftop seating on the edge of the canyon.

The Skywalk is open from dawn to dusk and costs $25 per person in addition to the cost of a Grand Canyon West entrance package.

THE GLASS WALKWAY PROJECT

Norman Foster said: “The environmental ambitions of the Masdar Initiative – zero carbon and waste free – are a world first. They have provided us with a challenging design brief that promises to question conventional urban wisdom at a fundamental level. Masdar promises to set new benchmarks for the sustainable city of the future.”

Unveiled today at the Cityscape conference in Abu Dhabi, Foster + Partners said Masdar would be a dense, walled development constructed in two stages. The first phase would see the construction of a large photovoltaic power plant, which would later become the site for the second phase.

The development is set to open in late 2009.

FOSTER & PARTNERS

The Wall of the World is a magnificent 47 hectare park with 272 granite walls, each 3.5m high and 0.5 m thick. Both sides of each wall will show the details of 65 million people or 1% of the world’s total population - name, family name, town and birth data.

Thus the Wall of the World will be created by 65 million people. People who highly value the unity of humankind, friendship and peace.

The Wall of World will be the largest ever man made testimony of the existence of humankind. The Wall of the World will be the greatest evidence of the unity of humankind.

ADD YOUR NAME NOW!

(Note: WallOfTheWorld Website is designed by FMCS’s interface designer and all round good guy Eriks Cernevskis).

A Registered member of the Isernia Architect Association. Luigi has been project manager for the consolidation and renovation of the Basilica of S. Vincenzo al Volturno ( a big task). and collaborated with Studio Nemesi, Studio Portoghesi, Studio Schiattarella, Studio Baragatti Patriarca and Studio Luciano Cupelloni Architettura.

And he is also co-founder of PULPIT. Watch out for this incredibly talented architect.

LUIGI VALENTE

Scheeren is not just another young European architect exploring China’s Capital…

As partner-in-charge of OMA’s most ambitious project to date, he is the architect leading the design and construction of the China Central Television Station (CCTV), and the Television Cultural Center TVCC in Beijing.

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New flagship store for Dior located in the Omotesando district of Tokyo designed by avant-garde architects SANNA and the shop interiors by Architecture & Associes.

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Otjher work by SANAA: Click here

Apple’s flagship store in Manhattan, the company’s second, has now opened to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the opening of the first Apple retail store. The company has now updated its website with details on the grand opening of the 20,000-square foot retail store along with a countdown and a computer rendition of the "Cube," a hollow $9 million 32-foot glass cube designed and paid for by Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

The glass cube is visible from street level and sits above the subterranean Apple retail store, which is located on Fifth Avenue in the underground concourse of the General Motors building. The company is expected to keep the store open 24-hours a day, although Apple has not confirmed this. Apple’s SoHo location recently served its five millionth customer.

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