The Melbourne Residences, South Brisbane

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Design: Tony Owen Partners, Architects. The Melbourne Residences, is a 20 storey building consisting of 200 units in Brisbane’s Southbank. It contains retail and rooftop club including gym, pool, cinema and dining room.

Virtual reality VR Solutions: beyond visualisation

Kruunusillat bridge

Real-time VR solutions are becoming increasingly popular for the presentation of complex designs and spatial data. What sets them apart from traditional forms of presentation is that they give the user virtually complete freedom to move around the design.

510 HOUSE, Fox Point, Wisconsin

510 HOUSE, Fox Point

Design: Johnsen Schmaling Architects. Private residence in a postwar suburb on Milwaukee’s north shore, its volume carefully embedded in the gently sloping contours and embraced by mature trees.

Swift Agency in Portland Oregon, digital media

Swift Agency in Portland

Design: Beebe Skidmore Architects – an adaptive re-use plus seismic upgrade of the original Rose City Awning factory, to create a company headquarters for Swift, a fast-growing 160-person digital media agency.

Hudson Yards Development Manhattan

Heatherwick’s ‘Vessel’ at Hudson Yards

Construction on Thomas Heatherwick’s landmark starts at Hudson Yards. The 150-foot-tall polished steel pavilion comprises 154 interconnecting flights of stairs. Hudson Yards is the largest private real estate development in the history of the US.

Minor + Stewart Towers Seattle

Minor + Stewart Towers in Seattle

This mixed-use development design by WATG, Architects totals nearly 950,000 sqft at the intersection of an up-and-coming neighborhood and an established downtown core. Two residential towers, 440 feet tall, sit above a mixed-use podium

COTE Top Ten Awards 2017

The David M Rubenstein Forum design by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) selected this year’s recipients of the Top Ten Awards, the industry’s premier program celebrating sustainable design excellence via the integration of great design and great performance.

Four Seasons Tianjin Hotel, China

Four Seasons Tianjin Hotel building design

Design by WATG, Architects. Located in the heart of China’s fourth largest metropolis this 210-m tower and podium offer 259 hotel guest rooms, 90 residential units and 5,000 sqm of retail space.

Carnegie Museum and Arts Centre Dunfermline building

Carnegie Museum and Arts Centre Dunfermline Building

Design: Richard Murphy Architects. EAA Building of the Year Award for 2017 Winner: £9m building integrated with the world’s first Andrew Carnegie library, at the heart of the historic medieval centre, close to the Romanesque Abbey.

FAV 2017, Festival des Architectures Vives

FAV 2017

Festival des Architectures Vives – a School of Architecture is invited each year to participate at the FAV: this year it is the Higher Technical School of Architecture of San Sebastián.

Sawmill, Tehachapi, California building

Sawmill, Tehachapi, California

Design: Olson Kundig Architects – set in the remote, harsh high desert of California, Sawmill is a family retreat that reflects and weaves into the beautiful, tough, scrubby site.

YAC Castle Resort Competition 2017

YAC Castle Resort Competition Winning design

Winners news for Young Architects Competition which invited architects / designers to provide ideas for transforming the ruins of a medieval castle in Italy into a holiday destination.