Adrian Welch
Design: Stipfold Architect. The building’s fully-fledged relationship with natural light is exquisitely balanced with privacy; The roadside windows let a daylight illuminate the living room and the second floor bedrooms, but their positioning make it impossible for an outsider to grasp interior activities.
Nuclear Architecture Competition news – entrants have to design a marker or marker system to deter inadvertent human intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a radioactive waste repository deep beneath the earth’s surface in New Mexico, USA.
World first biophilic design research project connects buildings with nature: a live office refurbishment providing quantified evidence on the benefits of biophilic design on health, well-being and productivity of office occupants.
Founded by Sir Robert Geffrye, the museum is a former site of almshouses built to house the financially insecure elderly from 1714. It was converted to a museum of furniture and industry by London Country Council in 1914. Since 1930, displays of domestic life have been exhibited here to depict period rooms from the 1600s, to the present day.
Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects’ new student residences in central Coventry completed using a volumetric system to deliver the building in just 9 months from planning approval to occupation. The new building provides 114 new studio rooms and improved communal facilities.
Architect: Harry Dobbs Design. Intended as a catalyst for further re-development of the London Oxford Street area: the idea is also to give smaller businesses and brands the opportunity to trade in a prime retail location.
First guests at Fiji’s new five-star luxury Momi Bay Resort check-in after completion of AUD$90 million five-star luxury development designed by award-winning Australasian architect firm The Buchan Group
Design: BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group. New photos of Via 57 West, the tetrahedron-shaped Manhattan apartment tower: 940,000-sqft (87,330 sqm) tower on the Hudson River.
London Festival of Architecture news – the show is over but many events continue. This architectural festival showcases London as a city rich in memories drawn from all over the world. Events include Wolfgang Weileder: Laban Transferred and The Cass Summer Show.
Storefront for Art and Architecture, in partnership with the Hong-Kong based DESIGN TRUST (an initiative of the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design) presents Storefront International Series: Hong Kong (Storefront IS Hong Kong), a three-day series of events that discuss contested issues in contested sites across the city.
Employees have no assigned desks. “Ponies”, as Fast Horse worker are known, are encouraged not to occupy the same seat two days in a row and are encouraged to extend their “work space” beyond the office to the coffee shop, bar, or home.
On Canada’s 150th Birthday, the National Arts Centre inaugurates a new building wing. Diamond Schmitt Architects has designed a new wing which switches the entrance to face the city. The NAC now connects directly to Confederation Square and Ottawa’s Parliamentary Precinct.
Design: Stefano Boeri Architetti. Opening news for new pavilion building: the first of four projects to allow people living in Norcia to use temporary collective spaces, while expecting the reconstruction of their public buildings damaged by the October 30th 2016 earthquake.
Design: Krueck + Sexton Architects with Gensler. This 375,000-sqft, highly sustainable Federal Office Building occupied by the FBI is in Miramar, Broward County, Florida. Campus buildings respond to the local climate, natural environment, and agency needs.