Adrian Welch
Hampshire County Council Property Services complete transformation of D-Day Museum Portsmouth: the architecture of the original 1980s building is revealed, exposing the large circular exhibition hall, containing the Overlord Embroidery, and enabling this principal form to be legible both inside and out.
St David’s Hospice, New In-Patient Unit, Newport, design by KKE Architects the 15-bed, in-patient hospice is a development of the original 2013 Day Hospice, itself a shortlisted project. The new building owes much of its special quality to unusually insightful clients.
Forest and Sports Park in Guang Ming, Shenzhen – LOLA, TALLER and L+CC win international architecture competition for a 600 hectare forest and sports park in southern China. Other competitors were JCFO, SWA and TCL.
Park Hill Phase 3 Sheffield regeneration news – housing renewal. Sheffield City Council grants permission for redevelopment by specialist student accommodation developer Alumno
Professor Nic Clear’s underground city for three million people is on display at Royal Academy of Arts 250th Summer Exhibition. The model ‘Chthonopolis’ is his vision of the future – an underground city for three million people, whose homes are built by droids from modified salt and their diet is based on insect protein.
Stephen Lawrence Prize 2018 Shortlist news – 7 projects shortlisted, including woodland classrooms for a school, a touching memorial to 173 people who died in Bethnal Green Tube station during the war and a hostel for vulnerable homeless women.
Bedford Park House, uptown Toronto home design Mehdi Marzyari Architects – an infill single family dwelling, the design objective is to create a new house with maximized liveable space and natural light within the tight and narrow site for an emerging developer.
Lycée Français Maternelle, Barcelona School building design by b720 Fermín Vázquez Architects – providing dialogue with the historical school formed from additions of temporary buildings over many years around two early twentieth century villas.
Life After Uni: Best Places To Live In London: So you’ve just graduated and you’re on the property hunt in the big wide world.
Binet Business Hotel Paris building design by AZC Atelier Zündel Cristea, Architects – initiated and managed by RIVP, the construction responds to a need of small and medium space with affordable rent.
Lack of Rental Housing in the UK – The current property market is causing landlords to become lax with the basic standards of their properties and ultimately neglect their responsibility to provide safe, secure and hygienic housing.
Innovation Centre at Red River College Exchange District Campus in Winnipeg, design by Diamond Schmitt Architects with Number TEN Architectural Group, construction start on $95m transformative building positioning architectural innovation to inspire.
London Bridge Public Realm Competition Winner – Charles Holland Architects win design competition to improve wayfinding and the public realm outside London Bridge station, a focus of LFA 2018 the contest aims to form a legacy.
Archasm Wilderness Pavilion Kenya Competition, East African design contest – “When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard” – with technological advancement, mankind becomes more apathetic about the natural ecosystem that it was once an indispensable part of.