The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, new permanent outdoor home of the San Diego Symphony: scenic waterfront venue seating up to 10,000 with 360-degree views of downtown, marina, and bay, centerpiece of the 3.7-acre park
Snowdon Aviary restoration – ZSL London Zoo building – transforming famous exhibit into state-of-the-art walk-through primate enclosure, and restoring Grade II* listed structure, peels away mesh panels
Ruyi Bridge design by ZZHK Architects in High-tech Zone of Chengdu, China, facing the greenway of Dayuan Central Park: pedestrian and bicycle lanes are connected, using dynamic spirals
Build a city of 100,000 in rural Central Pennsylvania, USA. Civics as an art has to do, not with imagining an impossible [utopia] where all is well, but with making the most and best of each place
Dock 72 Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York City – interior architectural design, FF&E, and art curation by Fogarty Finger for common areas and amenity spaces in ground up commercial project
Wetland Museum building in Huailai, Hebei, northern China, design by Tenio Architecture and Engineering: minimizes disturbance, integrates into nature – micro impact, zero emission & full cycling
1402 Coffee Shop in Aranya, Hebei, northern China, design by B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio built into existing red brick architecture with sloping roof: renovation juxtaposes old and new
Therme Canada – Ontario Place Toronto redevelopment design by Diamond Schmitt: landmark West Island waterfront destination expands public park space, and honours architectural history
Singapore architecture news – CapitaLand restructuring development, plus amazing Apple Marina Bay Sands building design by Foster + Partners, and sensitive Raffles Hotel restoration by architects Aedas
San Diego buildings: architecture news – info on best architects & images – contemporary Southern California real estate, US architectural developments
MicroPolis Housing New York City design by Studio ST Architects: NYC is home to diverse communities creating vibrant, urban landscape, but pandemic reveals it’s more divided than we like to admit
Moscow housing upgrade news – design by Petitdidierprioux Architectes with Highlight wins two lots of The Face of Renovation competition – upgrading program of Russian housing stock
Goodmayes, LB Redbridge development design by Stockwool Architects in East London, UK: large mixed-use regeneration project illustrates how height can positively release high quality public realm
EMBASSY Berlin buildings near Koellnischen Park design by TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten: six blocks on a 22,774 sqm plot in Mitte district, not far from the Spree River
Lotus Amphitheater Iran design by Peyman Kiani Architects – idea taken from the architectural form of the Safavid era, notably wall patterns and light panels
Royal Institute of British Architects reveals judges for 185th President’s Medals, world’s most prestigious awards in architectural education: open to architecture students around world
Managing Energy Use in Modern Buildings: Case Studies in Conservation Practice: book by The Getty Conservation Institute’s Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative to advance conserving 20th-century heritage