MÉCA Bordeaux Building: BIG
MÉCA Bordeaux building news – 12,000sqm riverfront culture & performing arts venue designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and FREAKS freearchitects, merges three cultural institutions
MÉCA Bordeaux building news – 12,000sqm riverfront culture & performing arts venue designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and FREAKS freearchitects, merges three cultural institutions
Construction restarts on Clare County Library building design by Keith Williams Architects in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland: 2,300sqm building conceived as a new cultural hub for town and region
Claremont Fan Court School building design by Fletcher Crane Architects, England, provides 10 subject-specific classrooms over two levels, on sensitive Grade I listed historic estate
The new indoor pool in Ismaning design by prpm Architects + City Planners has swimming and sauna facilities. The architecture comes from the free form of the swung glass façade with its interplay between transparent, translucent and opaque elements, including the capillary glass.
Winter House, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire property design by Scott Donald Architecture: amazingly there was no design brief in terms of style or area, just an art schedule for the architect!
Cobham Dairy building Kent, England, design by Purcell Architecture: James Wyatt’s Cobham Dairy sat derelict in Humphrey Repton’s landscape for over a century, saved by the Landmark Trust
William McDonough celebrates opening of tallest mass timber building on the East Coast – Apex Plaza, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA: what if our homes and workplaces were like trees?
Mill Lodge Leamington Spa, Warwickshire design by Michael Kendrick Architects makes excellent use of a slender site within a Conservation Area: contemporary, one-bedroom home for an elderly couple
Honey and Walnut House Birmingham design by Intervention Architecture cleverly transforms humble bungalow – minimises new extensions and focuses on opening the primary structure
2022 World Green City Awards news: Peter Chmiel, Director of pioneering international landscape architecture practice Grant Associates, appointed to the technical panel of judges
Special Exhibitions Gallery, Science and Industry Museum Manchester design by architects Carmody Groarke: Grade II Listed warehouse structure dates back to 1880s – industrial splendour re-awakened
BBMG Xi San Qi Science & Technology Park Phase I in Beijing design by Aedas redefines Technology Park as a mixed-use, public and welcoming type of urban fabric
The Old Library building design by OMI Architects in Liverpool: much-loved community asset closed in 2006 – had fallen into a state of neglect and disrepair, on ‘Buildings At Risk’ register