Adrian Welch
The inaugural Africa Architecture Awards winners news – the Grand Prix went to Umkhumbane Museum, South Africa by Choromanski Architects won from 20 shortlisted projects out of 307 buildings from 32 African countries.
Architecture Contest finalists news: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Adam Khan Architects and UAB Paleko Archstudija + UAB Baltic Engineers. Competition to submit concept designs for a substantial new building for this leading Lithuanian city including a world-class concert venue.
The Royal Institute of British Architects announce Neave Brown will receive the 2018 Royal Gold Medal, the UK’s highest honour for architecture. The revered Modernist architect is best known for his visionary 1970s Alexandra Road estate near Swiss Cottage in London.
3000 heart-shaped triangles populating the Queen of the curves landscape. The building designed by Zaha Hadid Architects stands on concrete stilts allowing visitors to the Autostadt to pass through without having to interfere with the workings of the building.
Sustainable construction has become systematic and specific: this was emphatically shown by the results of the LafargeHolcim Awards in Europe: The first prize was shared by two projects in Brussels, both of which excel in terms of multi-functionality.
Sleep Sets at Europe’s hotel design event: two-day, free conference 21-22 Nov at London’s Business Design Centre. Sets by Il Prisma, 1508 London, Stonehill & Taylor and MKV Design.
Amsterdam, the capital of Netherlands is said to be a city with heart. The polycentric city of Amsterdam has its heart and soul lying in its ring of canals and bridges that bind the concentric and infinite loop that the city is.
430,000 square feet of space designed by ENNEAD Architects in two connected eight-story towers. State-of-the-art classrooms, project centers, research labs, an engineering library and a café transform the UT Austin campus, Texas, USA.
Summer is here which means spending lots of time outside, whether it’s grabbing a drink at your local or heading down to the park for a picnic. However, for days you’d quite like to spend at home, it’s important to make good use out of any outdoor space you have and balconies are no exception.
MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, unveils “Mirage” ─ a renovation proposal for Montparnasse Tower in Paris, France. MAD’s design transforms this huge black monolithic building ─ positioned in the city center ─ into an artistic lighting installation that reflects the city upside down.
The Arquine Contest starts like a reflexive ideas project discussion platform about urban topics as the reconversion of the future ex-airport of Mexico City, or the migrant’s way of life that you can find in the transit between Mexico and the United States.
The clients discovered a 1990s house while looking for a place to raise their family. The new residence designed by SkB Architects has western views to Lake Washington. The original 3,800-sqft house was an unusually austere interpretation of minimalist modern architecture.
The CITO Surgery center is a specialized ophthalmology facility design by BAAS – Brunzini Arquitectos y Asociados. The high density site provides many sustainable benefits to building occupants. The nine levels include cultural and leisure activities on the ground floor.
One of a portfolio of daring holiday home architecture in the midst of the Catalan wilderness for French real estate developer Christian Bourdais: 12 architects have designed unique and expressive vacation properties.