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32 teams,1 venue,1 month,1 winner!

On 12th June, 2014, the largest spectacle in the global sporting calendar,The World Cup, kicks off at the Arena Corinthians in Brazil’s most populous city, São Paulo. Over the course of the next month, 32 teams will battle it out across 12 stadiums in Brazil for the most sought after trophy in the wide world of sports, watched by a global audience in excess of 2 billion people. It is estimated that by kick off on Thursday 12-06-14 US$14.5 billion will have been spent on the 2014 World Cup preparations.

24 months after the World Cup, Rio will be staging the world’s second largest sporting extravaganza, the Olympic Games. Around US$2.3 billion has been allocated for improvements to hold the event.

Andre Chiote, a Portuguese architect renowned for designing illustrations that represent some of architecture’s most iconic buildings has created master piece illustrations for the newly-built stadiums constructed for the 2014 world cup in brazil. The poster illustrations are colorful aesthetic – in Brazilian green,yellow and blue.

Andre Chiote has illustrated five of the 12 World Cup stadiums in Brazil, the tournament’s most iconic stadiums, using his signature style that highlights key elements of a building’s design with blocks of colour. What interests him about stadiums is “the capacity to become landmarks and city icons”.

In celebration of the Brazil World Cup here are the illustrations by André Chiote

The Issam Fares Institute (IFI) for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut serves students and academics while also providing a powerful nexus for local, regional and international researchers, thinkers and policy makers.

The 3,000-square-metre building is located on the northern side of the university campus, which was masterplanned by American firm Sasaki Associates in 2002. To retain the established pathways and landscaping of this masterplan, Zaha Hadid Architects lifted half the building off the ground.

The IFI’s design builds upon the institute’s mission as a catalyst and connector between AUB, researchers and the global community. Routes, views and links within the campus converge to define the IFI as a three-dimensional intersection; a space for university’s students, fellows and visitors to meet, connect and engage with each other and the wider world.

Photos by Hufton + Crow, Luke Hayes

The design of the Heydar Aliyev Center establishes a continuous, fluid relationship between its surrounding plaza and the building’s interior. The plaza, as the ground surface; accessible to all as part of Baku’s urban fabric, rises to envelop an equally public interior space and define a sequence of event spaces dedicated to the collective celebration of contemporary and traditional Azeri culture.

It’s located on the Heydar Aliyev Boulevard from the international airport to the old city, so in a way it kind of greets you, welcomes you, as you approach the city and it unfolds.

The centre, which contains exhibition spaces, a library, a museum and concert venues, is set in a public plaza, the ground of which rises up to form the building’s wave-like shell.

Saffet Kaya Bekiroglu, an associate at Zaha Hadid Architects who led the project, said the building reflected the romance and optimism of Azerbaijan, which gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. “They wanted to have something unique, something which is looking at the future, somehow showing their soft, romantic side but at the same time their optimistic side,” said Bekiroglu in an interview

The Heydar Aliyev Center is the first architecture project to have won the overall title of Design of the Year in the Design Museum’s annual awards. “This was an incredibly ambitious project and for me,” Hadid said. “It was always my dream to design and build the theoretical project and that was the closet thing to achieving that.”

Photography by Hélène Binet,  Hufton + Crow,  Iwan Baan