As Blouin ARTINFO looks back on the year that is now well into its second half, we bring you the most interesting new building announcements.Some extraordinary new buildings were announced in the first six months of 2016.Even after its founder’s death this year, Zaha Hadid Architects remains with a number of new projects in the pipeline. The most recent, a residential and hotel complex in Qatar, takes inspiration from desert flora to give an organic, bulbous shape to a high-rise building.The housing boom in Vancouver has brought us two impressive new residential complexes by high-profile Japanese architects, Shigeru Ban and Kengo Kuma. A similar-scale redevelopment in Budapest promises one of the most exciting new museum buildings in Europe.The year 2016 has also had its fair share of dreamy, ambitious projects: a floating new green space in New York City might be Thomas Heatherwick’s first green bridge, now that the project in London has been slowed down by the London mayor. A visitor and research center in Greenland will give tourists an impressive frame through which to view the icebergs. And on a mountain near Beirut, a most ambitious building, carved into a cliff and topped by a swimming pool instead of a roof, may become an unlikely reality.To see the most ambitious, imaginative buildings announced this year, click on the slideshow.
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