Adrian Welch
The BD Architect of the Year Awards – Edinburgh practice Reiach and Hall wins. Now in its 13th year, the AYA’s are unique in rewarding architectural practices for the best body of work in 15 different categories.
New York architecture news for 2016 – key construction updates for Manhattan plus major real estate stories focused on high end NYC developments by celebrated architects
Design: Stiff + Trevillion, architects. Alchemi Group secures planning for 360,000 sqft mixed-use Vauxhall development: 255 private apartments with gym, swimming pool, sauna, residents club room in a 36 storey main tower plus two separate buildings.
The Kaufman Organization, a full-service commercial real estate firm, announced today that London-based design agency, Design Bridge, has signed a 5,702-sqft, full-floor lease on the seventh floor at 45 West 27th Street (45W27).
Design: Studio Liakos and Associates Architects. The challenge was to create a resort combining local construction detailing and style with the requirements of a modern building, while taking into consideration its gorgeous natural setting
Design: Díaz y Díaz Arquitectos. Built in 1923, this revitalised Modernist building has structural protection in the PGOUM of Sada. It is a genuine example of civil architecture “defrayed by the emigration, so abundant in the area”.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. Voting has begun in Westminster’s search for the city’s best building of the last decade, recognising the capital’s cutting-edge architecture with a design excellence award.
A ‘City for All’ – UNStudio announced as the unanimous winner of the architectural competition for the former Deutsche Bank site in Frankfurt.
Design: Architect Alejandro Beautell. For years, the neighbors of the fishermen village of El Pris had tried to promote the construction of a proper temple, under the vocation of the Virgen del Carmen (Our Lady of Mount Carmel) who is patroness of the sailors.
Architectural research initiative arch out loud are hosting a competition addressing human trafficking and calling on designers to reimagine the square of Tenancingo Municipality, Mexico where this issue is prevalent.
Architects: Najjar&Najjar. Austrian Sixties house refurb – a villa layered anew both inside and outside using a tripartite construction of columns, plus a new roof level on top.
Design: Nicholas Hare Architects. The technology hub was funded in part by a £8m donation from the James Dyson Foundation, and will give some of the world’s brightest young engineering students access to advanced laboratories.
Gastronomy at KSEVT, developed as part of the AA Visiting School nanotourism in Vitanje, Slovenia, 2016. The next Architectural Association School of Architecture event takes place on 28 April – 13 May 2017.
The Society of British and International Design (SBID) launch first UK pavilion for interior design with DIT and Overseas Fairs Division at international flooring tradeshow Domotex 2017.