With striking city and mountain views, Museum Residences, gallery-inspired condominiums by Daniel Libeskind are a place where art, architecture, and theatre connect with the pulse of the city. Adjacent to Frederic C. Hamilton Building, it creates inspiring contribution to the city. “For me, Museum Residences is a unique opportunity. I consider the challenge of designing for downtown Denver, one of the most vibrant cities in this country, to be one of the highest honors bestowed upon any architect,” Daniel Libeskind says.

The soft qualities of the translucent glass skin Rheinzink™ technology combined with the metal clad geometric forms provide an elegant partner to the titanium clad Denver Art Museum addition next door. The dynamic design intended to connect intellectual, emotional and sensual, providing generous space art collection, original angles for sculpture, a sophisticated zeitgeist with clean, simple lines, contemporary kitchens, and interiors and terraces.

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Continuing a legacy of deconstructive architecture, Daniel Libeskind designs an expansion that would accommodate the Denver Art Museum. The extension is also called The Frederic C. Hamilton Building, which design resembles the tops of the Rocky Mountains and geometric rock crystals found in the foothills near Denver. “I was inspired by the light and the geology of the Rockies, but most of all by the wide-open faces of the people of Denver,” says Libeskind. The building is a reflection of Colorado sunshine. This extension of the Denver Art Museum is the first Daniel’s work to be finished in North America.

The building name itself is to honour entrepreneur Frederic C. Hamilton, who has presided as Chairman of the Denver Art Museum since 1994. Placed south of the two-towered North Building by Italian architect Gio Ponti and James Sudler Associates and side-by-side to the Denver Public Library by Michael Graves, the museum’s extension is first major addition since the North Building built 35 years ago, nearly doubles its facilities. The huge cantilever that protrudes northwards over 13th Avenue makes a bridge above the road, connecting between the extension and the existing building.

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The collaboration between Libeskind and Tel-Aviv architecture firm The Heder Partnership has served a new sense of possibilities to a university campus. Clearly built with strict budget, the evoking Wohl Centre is bordered by roads on the border of Bar-Ilan’s new North Campus. The USD 500 million campus extension will function as a venue for prestigious academic gatherings, lectures and national and international conferences, and also provide a cultural site both for the university and the neighbours. “We wanted the building to be just outside the campus to reach out to anyone,” said Professor Moshe Kaveh, president of Bar-Ilan University.

It was constructed with the fundraising of Maurice Wohl dedicated to the memory of Vivienne Wohl, who died earlier in 2005. Donor representative and project controller was engineer Moshe Cogan who monitored the project throughout the construction period. Project manager on behalf of the Bar-Ilan University was engineer Jakob Weinberger from Vinko YEFT.

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After years of discourses, the City of Toronto agreed to provide land in the park for honouring Jewish War Veterans. Mayor David Miller joined a host of dignitaries and veterans at a sod-turning ceremony for Jewish War Veterans Memorial, designed by renowned architect Daniel Libeskind. Set at Earl Bales Park near Bathurst St. and Sheppard Ave, the monument goal is to keep alive the memory of Jewish war veterans spread the world that fought and often died for the cause of freedom, particularly Jewish Canadians who served not only in World War II but many other wars, including some before Confederation.

Lou VanDelman, executive director of the Jewish War Veterans comitee, offered Sid Bregman, a prominent Toronto architect in his own right and a spitfire pilot in the war over Britain for the project. But he passed it to Daniel Libeskind, “I’ll build it, but I can’t create emotion.” When Libeskind was asked to design the memorial, he agreed. He did not see this as just regular project, but as an important chance for him to contribute to the Jewish community. Bregman will assist Libeskind.

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Warsaw is a truly identical city. This Polish capital past’s that ignites the principal of hope and spirit for its future. Being no longer satisfied with only conventional looks, the city is renewing its own identity through culture, fashion and an unrivaled approach to living. One of the sign is Złota 44, a title to luxury apartment tower, which will be ready by 2008. It located near to the Warszawa-Centralna train station, opposite the Palace of Culture and near the Metro Centrum station.

This is not regular corporate building that gives Warsaw only blank meaning. The walls sharply bend to the sides like sails, covered with a spectacular glass structure, provide an unlimited source of sunlight to its spacious living spaces in the wind and that’s why they dubbed it the ‘Glass Sail’. The eastern face of the building is faced abreast to the path of the sun to provide required daylight to surrounding buildings.With height approximately 192-meter it will remind to an office center rather than an apartment. Zlota 44 is hi-tech and environment friendly by achieve the highest levels of energy and water savings.The unique Zlota 44 form is based on Warsaw history and its light. The building is surely striking with its neighbors.

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