Adrian Welch
Krøyers Plads building design by Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter and COBE, architects: a five-story housing project with a significant location in the centre of the Copenhagen harbour area – award-winning and Nordic Eco-labelled project
Design: Radionica Arhitekture; Ured ovlaštene arhitektice Vanja Ilić. The building is a path which the visitors climb to overcome the elevation difference of around 20m, from the access road to the plateau, on which the Vučedol culture archaeological findings have been discovered.
CTBUH Awards annual review of tall building construction trends – with 128 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater completed around the world – setting a new record for annual tall building completions.
Architect: Aedas. This building reflects the traditional Chinese totem of bamboo, rejuvenating the old town of Shenzhen. This 200-m super high-rise will house the headquarters for Tellus-Gmond, lettable office spaces and a jewellery trading centre.
Design: OMA, architects. £110m flagship cultural building wins Planning Permission: the city’s cutting-edge arts venue aims to take a radically new approach to cultural production and performance.
Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2017 has announced TAB 2017 Vision Competition, offering architects, scientists and artists the chance to define a new urbanity of the Paljassaare Peninsula in Tallinn in the era when no ecosystem is unaffected by human action.
Design: Blakstad Haffner Arkitekter. The architects’ ambition was to reflect and strengthen values of community, solidarity, diversity and democracy, both through form and function by establishing a small village.
Design: Atelier Oslo, Architects. The starting point is a typical challenge of densification in an area of existing single family houses. The house is broken up into smaller volumes to adapt to the relatively tight situation and the scale of the surrounding buildings.
Conversion of a 500-year-old palazzo in the heart of Venice into a Benetton ‘megastore’ by OMA. The Renaissance building, known as the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, overlooks the Grand Canal and the city’s famous Rialto Bridge.
For an architect, the challenge is the fuel that keeps him alive. The architects accepted the challenge to design a shelter at 2,100 m in the Southern Carpathians on a tight budget. They asked to build it themselves!
Design: JKMM Architects. The design process has aimed to eschew rectangular designs in favour of a strong and memorable visual identity: the sculptural, massive quality of the new buildings recalls the imposing solidity of erratic boulders.
Design: OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture
A giant wooden periscope structure that serves as an observation tower engaging the viewer in a dialogue with the landscape. With the help of a large mirror, everyone can enjoy views of the landscape.
Design: Hodder and Partners, architects. The University of London, in partnership with University Partnership Programmes close a £105m deal to house over 500 students in a new 33-storey building in Stratford.
National Prayer Landmark Competition: The shortlist for the RIBA competition to design an ambitious new landmark made of a million bricks announced.