University of Leicester Engineering Building Book

University of Leicester Engineering roof

The Herculean task of replacing the iconic roof of one the world’s most revered pieces of 20th-century architecture is captured on the page by its lead designer. University of Leicester Engineering building book

Prague Congress Centre Design Competition 2017

Prague Congress Centre Design Competition

Architecture competition is to propose new exhibition spaces for the Prague Congress Centre (KCP), for conventions, concerts and other social events. The proposal aims to add value to a building belonging to the architectural heritage of the 1970s.

UN Building New York: United Nations Building

United Nations Building New York City

The U.N. is building a new tower to house its operations across the street from the under-renovation U.N. Secretariat, the only Corb building in New York. Architects are Fumihiko Maki with local partner FXFowle. The UN Tower architecture competition was only open to Pritzker Prize-winning architects.

AT&T Building New York – 550 Madison Avenue

AT&T Building New York

Former AT&T Building is being considered for landmark designation. This famous Postmodern building with its so-called ‘Chippendale Chair’ top is a 647 feet tall, 37-story skyscraper at 560 Madison Avenue (at 56th Street), designed by US architect Philip Johnson with John Burgee.

East Austin District, Texas Sports Arena

East Austin District Texas building design by BIG

Celebrating world-class sports and cultural experiences under one checkered roofscape designed by BIG, anchored by a 40,000-seat outdoor bowl and a 15,000-seat arena building featuring a revamped Rodeo Austin.

Chaoyang Park Plaza Beijing Buildings

Chaoyang Park Plaza Beijing Buildings

Project by architects MAD, including the Armani apartment complex, on the southern edge of the largest remaining park in Beijing’s central business district area. The 220,000 sqm complex includes 10 buildings.

Landsec Headquarters Victoria Street Offices

Landsec Headquarters Victoria Street Offices

Landsec’s new health-focused headquarters at 80-100 Victoria Street has set the benchmark for sustainable office space and showed what can be achieved when sustainability, energy efficiency and employee occupancy are prioritised at the outset of development plans.

Taichung Intelligence Operations Center building design

Taichung Intelligence Operations Center Building

The Taichung Intelligence Operations Center designed by architect Elizabeth de Portzamparc officially designated a winning project. Showcase of the technology and sustainability, architectural symbol thought as a real vertical neighborhood.

Brutalist Buildings: 20th Century Architecture

Kurpaty Health Resort building in Yalta

Many Brutalist buildings are criticised for their rugged and unappealing appearance. We highlight this architectural movement via a selection of the best examples around the world. These structures serves as great alternative tourist attractions for the more design-curious travellers

Drawing of the Year 2017 Competition

Drawing of the Year 2017 Competition 1st prize

Aarhus School of Architecture, schmidt hammer lassen architects, VOLA, and Danish Arts Foundation proudly announce the fifth joint venture competition Drawing of the Year 2017 awards and exhibition.

Complete Doorsets Fire Compartmentation

Complete Doorsets Fire Compartmentation

Following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, dhf (Door & Hardware Federation) stress the vital importance of compartmentation in preventing the spread of fires in multi-occupancy buildings such as tower blocks and office buildings.

Land Converter, London Housing Shortage, UK

DA Residence, Walthamstow home

People with unused back gardens, derelict garages, empty rooftops, and dilapidated workshops / light Industrial buildings could be sitting on valuable land for housing, says new business Land Converter.

Building Climate Control Design

VVIP Circuit House Pune Building

“Sustainable architecture urgently requires new materials if it is to live up to the high energy efficiency and climate protection requirements”, says the chemist, forest scientist, and materials researcher Professor Cordt Zollfrank.

Mashhad Residence, Iranian Property

Mashhad Residential Property, Iranian Home

This project by Pi architects is based in a residential building in Mashhad whose construction dates back to approximately twenty years ago. The building has two residential floors and a basement where a jacuzzi, a pool and a sauna are located.