Architectural Innovation Manual

Just as its name implies, innovation means unsatisfactory to the current situation and process of developing new methods and techniques. It could be applied to tool and technology, procedure, and work pattern etc.

Innovation in architecture refers much to the changes in the façade of the architecture, the transformation of the interior structure, the development and application of the low-carbon materials, the improvement of the façade techniques and the load-bearing techniques, the regulating of the architectural functions, and the combination of architecture and environment.

This book compiles more than one hundred projects (mainly foreign projects) and categorizes these projects into categories of morphology innovation, structural innovation, material innovation, technology innovation, and function innovation according to the innovation concept in architecture. The innovation of these projects independently uses models of a certain kind of innovation or combines some classical models of several innovation patterns at the same time. We hope that the advancing innovation concepts in foreign architectures could bring more idea collision to the insiders of the architectural industry and help them create more new and better architectures for the world’s development.

006 Pattern Innovation
008 Frog Queen
012 Sky Village in Rødovre
014 Sogn Arena - Mercedes Benz Showroom
018 T-Clinic
020 United Oil Gasoline Station
024 Virgin Active Health Club
030 The Akmani Hotel
036 De Eekenhof
038 Stadsdeelkantoor Zuideramstel
040 AquaDomi Floating Hotels
044 Raffles City, Hangzhou
046 Saxo Bank
050 The Museum of Middle Eastern
Modern Art (MOMEMA)
054 Culture Centre
056 Randers Museum of Art
060 Fujitsobo
062 Helsinki Seafarers’ Centre
066 The Salt Crystals
068 An der Alster 1
072 Structure Innovation
074 House of Twelve
078 Aonni Mineral Water Plant
080 De Cecco Business Center
082 Barber Shop
084 Chemist’s Shop in the Town Wood
088 San Paolo Bank
092 Campus Restaurant and Event Space in Stuttgart
094 Headquarter for the Middelfart Savings Bank
098 Freshwater Plaza
100 StatoilHydro Building
104 Biochemistry Building at the University of Oxford
108 Setai Hotel & Condominiums
110 Openhouse
114 MUMUTH Theatre
118 Cocoon
124 Voestalpine Office Centre
130 Material Innovation
132 Olisur Olive Oil Factory
138 Built Landscape
142 Office Building in Alfonso Gomez Street
146 ESCADA Headquarters
148 Galician Architects Central Office in Vigo
150 Kemang Medical Care
154 SSC voestalpine Stahl Service Center
158 Armann Sports Club
160 Bowling Pitch
162 Nisha Bar-Lounge
166 10 Hills Place
168 Dot Envelope
172 Sports and Leisure Center
176 Cave Restaurant
178 Sheraton Incheon Hotel
182 Partyrent’s Representative Office
186 Ajman Municipal Headquarters
188 Olivers Place Office Building
192 LM Harbor Gateway
196 Lysholt Tower & KPMG Building
200 The Icelandic National Concert & Conference Centre
202 Function Innovation
204 NZI Centre
208 Ventolera Winery
214 Casa da Torre Winery
220 Rouen Grand Mare
226 Tori Tori Restaurant
230 Jasmax Studio
234 IT-Fornebu Portal Building
238 Terminus Hotel
242 Jerusalem
244 Oslo International School
248 Salon O
250 Technology Innovation
252 Mirror Tower
254 Future Hotel Showcase Room
256 Bryghusgrunden Project
260 Vertical Village
262 “Seven Peaks” in Zira Island
266 Taipei Performing Arts Centre
268 Landmark East
272 Ecology Building
274 ITER - CEA Cadarache
276 Rubi Offices
278 Alila Cha-Am Hotel
282 Southern Ocean Lodge
286 Paladares da Quinta Restaurant
288 Emerging Landscapes
290 Office Building with Training Workshop
292 Gwang Gyo Power Center
296 Mexico Torre Cuajimalpa Apartment
300 Enea Headquarters
306 Edge House
310 Sapphire Gallery
314 Hotel City Garden