The 34,500 square-feet New Acropolis Museum mission is to improve the manner in which the invaluable Greek ancient ruins are presented to millions of visitors each year. It is intended both as an upgrade and inviting. Sited only 800 feet from the famous Parthenon, the museum will be the most audacious building ever erected so close to the ancient. Bernard Tschumi was selected as the caretaker in the second competition for the design of the museum.

But the problem appears when archaeologists uncovered an early Christian town at the site. A dilemma because it is important to keep the museum adjacent to the Acropolis as possible, but any area near the Acropolis is containing important archaeological ruins when excavated. And then it was decided to leave the archaeological sites where they are, and to build the museum above them. “The Parthenon was the highest point of culture and worship, the museum is a place that records those achievements. The museum will stage the work of that era while asserting a new identity.” says Tschumi.

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The University of Cincinnati will become prosperous with the opening of the Richard E. Lindner Athletics Center, its center of UC’s Varsity Village and the new base for all Department of Athletic facilities. The 236,000 square foot building is located between Nippert Stadium and Fifth Third Arena, one of the ambitious developments of UC’s athletics facilities since 2003. Why it’s called “village” because it was adopted because the concept provides ease of use and access to support services of UC’s intercollegiate program, similar to that of a small town.

The facilities named in honor to Cincinnati philanthropist and businessman Richard E. Lindner, who gave the supporting fund for the project. Designed by internationally acclaimed architect Bernard Tschumi, the Athletic Center is formed gigantic, eight-story (three below ground and five above) boomerang nestled between the football stadium and basketball arena, one which will push the university into a new era of integration between athletics and academics. To the north leads toward the Campus Recreation Center, by Thom Mayne of Morphosis, and to the south connects to an open plaza, practice field and tennis courts.

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Established at a prominent area that follows in the curve of Kunyu River near the Yuanyuantan Park, the new West Diaoyutai Tower features a dramatic cantilevered prow and a perforated metal skin. The approximately 59,000 m² creation of Bernard Tschumi will accomodate a luxury hotel and apartments, which are expected to attract Chinese and international business people.

It is hard to not to compare it with Rem Koolhaas’s CCTV. Resemble to soldered connections of a computer plate, a cut out happens in the block of the tower diagonally at its lower southeast corner, whereby a dramatic opening is revealed and in result the void gives free view to the Kunyu River’s surrounding landscape via roof terrace.

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It was March 8, 2007 in the middle of 16-acre densely wooded forest field located between the ESTER crossroads and the crossroads of Europe (Uzurat) when the Zenith inaugurated. Bernard Tschumi and BTuA were chosen for this 6,000 seats concert hall in Limoges, France, after won the competition which was sponsored by the local government of Limoges. The project will openly accept rock concerts, political meetings and various other events.

This powerful art of work, realized after the hard last several years, gives physical form to an architectural discourse that has made Tschumi a mastering theorist of his era. Tschumi devotes his concepts for every project uniquely in how they respond to content and context. He reintroduces the envelope concept, but recontextualizes it and presents material replacements. Limoges is inspired on his recent concert hall in Rouen, France, but instead of concrete, the hall in Limoges uses an exterior clad of wood due of its respection to the surrounding, a large forest, as an answer for the laws of the durable development.

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Soon there’ll a tall blue luxury condominium in New York’s historic Lower East Side about to raise, depicts the site’s complex zoning rules while responding to the character of the neighborhood. The building is on the site of the ex-parking lot belonging to Ratner’s, the legendary 100 years old, world famous kosher restaurant known for traditional Jewish culinaries, and its sales office at 100 Norfolk Street dwells Ratner’s former restaurant kitchen that was shortly occupied by Lansky’s Lounge, a night club honored Meyer Lansky, before and after the restaurant’s closing last year.

The building has been designed by world renowned Bernard Tschumi, whose had already handle several projects such as Parc Villette in Paris, the Vacheron Constantin headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, a concert hall in Rouen, France, and the Lerner Hall Student Center at Columbia University where he was presided as dean from 1988-2003. The Blue Tower is his first commercial project he ever had. The building questioned us with (maybe) common design challenge: How to create an original architectural statement in simultaneously improving the zoning limitation? Bernard Tschumi argues (as usual) that the building specified for commercial purpose.

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