The Hong Kong House, England

Contemporary Luxury Home in Southern England designed by AR Design Studio

The Hong Kong House is a private extension and renovation project by Winchester based architects AR Design Studio. A world away from the client’s former home in HK, the home provides an opportunity for the family to have a familiar inside-out space to live in and relax.

Solvay Headquarters in Brussels: HQ Building

Solvay Office Building in Brussels

Solvay, an advanced materials and chemical company, selected Danish architectural office Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects to design its new headquarters in Brussels, beating OMA, Valode & Pistre, Wilmotte & Associés and Henning Larsen.

2510 Temple Los Angeles, Filipinotown Building

2510 Temple Los Angeles, Filipinotown Building

The residential project in historic Filipinotown addresses the ongoing housing crisis in Los Angeles through the density of 47 market-rate and affordable housing apartment units, atop a storefront commercial space.

3 World Trade Center in New York City

3 World Trade Center in New York City

3 World Trade Center, aka 175 Greenwich Street, opening news: designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners for developers Silverstein Properties, the 80-story, 1,079-ft tower is the 5th tallest skyscraper in New York City.

Elmhurst Community Library Building Queens

Elmhurst Community Library Queens, New York

New library building in Queens designed by Marpillero Pollack Architects, replacing a 1904 Carnegie library with a new 30,500 sqft building that fulfills the Client’s mission of access, transparency, and technology.

Linden Center at Shilong Village, Xiaxi, China

Linden Center at Shilong Village, Xiaxi

Linden Center at Shilong Village, Xiaxi, China, design by Anderson Anderson Architecture: carefully inserted public spaces and rooms fill the already disturbed areas of the site, where it has been used as a path for herding animals.

150 North Riverside Office Development Tower

150 North Riverside Building | www.e-architect.com

Design: Goettsch Partners, architects. Comprising 1.25 million rentable square feet, the building is located in Chicago’s West Loop on one of the most prominent sites in the city, bounded by Randolph and Lake streets.

Manila Grade ‘A’ Office Tower Building

Manila Grade ‘A’ Office Tower Building

Verticality emphasised through façade’s vivid vertical rhythm, creating a new landmark for Makati financial district. Design is now underway on Woods Bagot’s first major project in Manila – a 36-storey Grade-A office tower in the city’s prominent Makati financial district

MAD Travel Fellowship 2018, China

MAD Travel Fellowship 2018 Winner

2018 MAD Travel Fellowship winners news – 9th edition supports 6 architecture students from across the globe, and grant them the opportunity to travel to the destination of their choice, in order to gain further insights into their architecture topics of research.

Mafengwo Global Headquarters, Beijing

Mafengwo Global Headquarters Beijing

Travel has its own warmth and communities their own kind of freedom: the restrained style of Mafengwo Travel Network – Global Headquarters in Beijing, China, updates the brand’s image.

Smithson Plaza, Economist Building Renovation

Smithson Plaza London building

Tishman Speyer complete first phase of renovation at 23-27 St James’s Street, Alison and Peter Smithson’s last remaining building in London. The Grade II*-listed ‘The Economist Plaza’ complex renamed ‘Smithson Plaza’ to celebrate the architects.

Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture 2017-2018

Autonomic by United-Make

Article by Brazilian architect Carlos M Teixeira: a biennale that is a “revolt against a mainstream culture ruled by ‘centralism’” and that offers “a space of resistance against authoritarian planning”, that is how the Shenzhen Biennale’s curators presented the event’s current edition, which began in December and terminates in March this year.

Gabrielle Bullock, Perkins + Will Architects News

Gabrielle Bullock Perkins + Will Architects

Perkins+Will’s Director of Global Diversity Sworn in as IIDA International Board President. Gabrielle Bullock Inducted at IIDA Annual Meeting in Chicago, Becomes First African-American Woman to Take Helm of Interior Design Industry Association.