World Architecture News September 2007: Buildings across the Globe, Contemporary Properties

Global Architecture News September 2007

Architectural Design Developments – World Built Environment, New Property Design

Global Architecture News – September 2007

World Architectural Projects – Highlights in Sep 2007
This is the e-architect archive page for Architecture News September 2007.

Peacock Visual Arts : Brisac Gonzalez

image from Brisac Gonzalez Architects
Northeast Scotland’s main centre of contemporary visual arts under threat not by credit crunch but by North Sea oil millionaire Sir Ian Wood’s plans to flatten Union Terrace Gardens. Brisac Gonzalez’s design brought welcome contemporary architecture to Aberdeen. Plans to raise the sunken gardens to street level have abounded for decades. But Ian Wood pledged up to £50 million of his own cash to be matched by public funding. A feasibility study commissioned by Scottish Enterprise is to be finlaised by March 2009.
Facilities: contemporary arts & house galleries, printmaking, television & dance studios, workshops, education suite.

Hazelwood School : gm+ad
The Architecture in Scotland Annual ran a poll to identify Scotland’s best new building of 2008. By a huge margin gm+ad’s Hazelwood School for the sensory impaired picked up the honour. “It is in the delivery of public service, however that any such project must be measured and in this Hazelwood really excels”. Gordon Young Editor, Prospect

Russia Tower Moscow – Foster + Partners

Stirling Prize 2007 : shortlist

Hangzhou China : Sheppard Robson

Danish chair : Schmidt Hammer Lassen

Paddington Basin building : mossessian & partners

Beach Road : Foster + Partners

Russian Black Sea development : Erick van Egeraat

St Petersburg Airport : Grimshaw

Camp Nou Stadium : Foster + Partners

Wells Cathedral building : Eric Parry

Bern building : Daniel Libeskind

Ciudad del Motor : UNStudio