262 Fifth Avenue Tower, New York City
Design: Meganom, Architects, Moscow. This NYC building project has now started on site with demolition underway. This is the first super-tall tower in Nomad, a 1,001-foot-tall luxury residential building.
Adrian Welch
RIBA London Awards 2017 winning buildings
85 buildings across the UK capital have been shortlisted for an RIBA London Regional Award this year, from 215 submitted schemes – up 30 on last year’s submissions. Throughout April all shortlisted schemes will be visited by one of five London juries.
Nord Architects: Danish architecture studio
Nord Architects news – new images of Vardheim Health Centre in Randaberg, on the West coast of Norway. Designed by Bergen-based 3RW arkitekter and Copenhagen-based NORD architects, the project is inspired by traditional Norwegian hamlets.
Swansea City Centre Regeneration
Design: ACME, Architects: outline planning permission for a major new leisure, retail and residential quarter in the centre of Wales’ second city. Swansea Central will re-establish a network of pedestrian streets and squares aligned to the historic character of the city centre.
Silicon Mall Dubai building design
A double nomination for Design International at the prestigious Global RLI Awards 2017, marking yet another milestone for world-wide architecture and design within “retail architecture” over the past year.
Bassins à flot Housing in Bordeaux, France
Design: Mateo Arquitectura. As though washed up here by nearby waters, rises the hulk of the World War II submarine base. Beside us, other remains of the shipwreck: some small constructions that have to be integrated into the project.
Hyperloop One Global Challenge: Northern Arc
Ryder Architecture and Arup unveil the Northern Arc proposal in Hyperloop One Global Design Challenge. It was revealed as one of nine shortlisted routes spanning the continent as part of Hyperloop One’s global challenge, at it’s Vision for Europe summit in Amsterdam.
MAD Travel Fellowship 2017, China
Winners of The MAD Travel Fellowship selected from over 500 global applicants – was open to architecture students globally: five Mainland China students travel abroad, whilst five international students visit China.
Make America ♥ Again, Times Square NYC
Five-day cultural event, with a curated set of interactive displays bringing design and innovation directly to Times Square’s newly renovated plazas. Animated plaza by presenting hands-on design experience to all.
INDEX Design Series in Dubai
Design minds from 108 different countries gathered at the Dubai World Trade Centre to meet, network and do business with more than 1,000 exhibitors from across the world at INDEX, workspace and Middle East Covering.
Brown University Performing Arts Center, RI, USA
REX architecture firm, New York City, selected by the Corporation of Brown University as the architect for Brown’s new performing arts center (PAC) to be located in the heart of the College Hill campus.
RIBA Beyond Borders Exhibition, London
An interactive installation to encourage unity, a portable dining space for refugees, an optical viewing device, and a project that links communities either side of Belfast’s Peace Wall will be exhibited in Liverpool and London next month as the result of the RIBA Beyond Borders open call.
Theo and Oskar’s New Home Competition, UK
Tigg + Coll Architects, winners of the Colander run competition to find architects for Theo and Oskar’s House, will work with Ballymore to deliver a light, spacious and barrier-free home for the Taussig family and their two young sons.
Saatchi & Saatchi Chancery Lane HQ London Midtown
Architects: Bennetts Associate and Jump Studios announce the completion of No. 40 Chancery Lane, a large-scale commercial space in the historical heart of the Chancery Lane Conservation Area, London.