MOCAPE Shenzhen Building: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
Design: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, architects. New photos, taken by Duccio Malagamba, feature Shenzhen’s new cultural meeting point and a venue for architectural exhibitions by architect Wolf D. Prix.
Adrian Welch
Flipping Property Prices in London: House Value
We feature five “flipped” London properties which are on the market today, looking at the costs behind these projects, including renovations and stamp duties.
Derzhprom Building Kharkiv Monument Competition
Controversy from an architecture competition the Commemorative Monument for Freedom Square, in front of the Derzhprom Building: “Incompetence of the local authorities puts Europe’s first skyscraper complex in danger”.
Una Pavilion, São Sebastião, São Paulo
Design: Apiacás Arquitetos. Located in a residential condominium in Barra do Una (a beach located near São Paulo city), Cumaru wood pillars and beams strategically placed give greater freedom to the pivotal doors that make up the façade.
FAV 2016, Festival des Architectures Vives
The Festival des Architectures Vives is an architectural course dedicated to a wide audience that allow to discover or (re)discover emblematic sites in Montpellier and in La Grande Motte thanks to ephemeral projects created by young architects teams.
Residential Tower Antwerp
Design: C.F. Møller Architects + Brut Architecture and Urban Design. Architectural competition win for new residential and mix-use tower in Nieuw Zuid area in Antwerp, with a proposal that redefines residential high-rise as a vertical social community
Pavilion of Turkey at Venice Biennale 2016
Pavilion of Turkey at Biennale Architettura 2016 to host a choreographed sequence of Venice New Year’s Concert: filming at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
Digital Origami Tigers Lausanne Light Festival
Design: LAVA, architects. Digital origami tigers have jumped into the Festival Lausanne Lumières in Switzerland, which runs until 31 December 2016.
Bill Dunster Architect, ZEDfactory London
Bill Dunster Architects news – response to Autumn statement on affordable housing: “we must start to do things differently – this has been our approach with the ZEDpod – our super affordable, high quality, net zero carbon key worker housing”
Chengdu City Music Hall Complex, Wuhou District
Architect: Andrew Bromberg at Aedas. The building design balances cultural components within a dense urban environment disconnected from its traditional connection to nature.
United States Capitol Washington DC building
U.S. Capitol building dome restoration news. After two years of meticulous repairs led by Architect of the Capitol Stephen T. Ayers, FAIA, along with architect-of-record Hoffman Architects, the historic landmark is now back to its former glory.
Foundation Myths at York Art Gallery: Installation
Foundation Myths at York Art Gallery – Art by former FAT architect Charles Holland. Previously he worked with artist Grayson Perry on architectural ceramics specialist, Darwen Terracotta and Faience on the House for Essex,
PAR, Architects, Los Angeles
PAR Architects news
The Wilshire Tower building proposal has won a 2016 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum and European Centre for Architecture.
Business of Design Week: BoDW 2016
Asia’s leading annual design event due to open: some of the world’s most influential architects will share their knowledge and conception of architecture.