Extension to Gentofte School in Copenhagen

Extension to Gentofte School in Copenhagen

Design: Arkitema Architects. The new addition to the school in Denmark creates a further 460sqm of space, which can accommodate 100 children, spread across two floors. The extension houses three classrooms, a common room and a double height workshop as well as a large roof terrace.

Traffic Control Operations Unit Santiago

Offices for the Traffic Control Operations Unit in Santiago

Design: Chauriye Stäger Arquitectos. This commission involved the revamping of two old houses, with a third building incorporated as an annex. The challenge was to merge all three properties into one corporate building.

Filamentary Chapel in Jalisco, México

Filamentary Chapel in Jalisco

Design: Di Vece Arquitectos and Francisco Morales Dufour. The concept is to create a processional scheme, a peripheral pathway around the building that promotes an introspective process in preparation for the religious ceremony and for a personal spiritual seclusion.

Lakewood Art Studio in Florida, USA

Lakewood Art Studio in Florida

Design: KZ Architecture. An artist’s studio addition to an existing home serves as a catalyst to transform a back yard into a series of terraced outdoor rooms, pulling an indoor lifestyle out into the subtropical climate. Nestled between mature oak specimens in the front and a lake in the rear.

Thompson Rivers University Law School, Kamloops

Thompson Rivers University Law School, Kamloops, Canada

The first new law school in Canada in 30 years opened its new home at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia. The building design by Diamond Schmitt Architects revitalizes an existing campus building with an iconic two-storey addition.

Kopua House on Waiheke, NZ

Kopua House on Waiheke

Design: Daniel Marshall Architect. The site for this residence was a steep basin sloping down to the north east facing a sheltered bay on the eastern side of Waiheke Island. Two 100 year old Pohutakawa trees marked the transition from the earth to the sea.

Northwest Harbor in East Hampton, NY

Northwest Harbor in East Hampton

Design: Bates Masi + Architects. Straddling freshwater wetlands and a tidal estuary just six feet above sea level, the Northwest Harbor house’s site demands extraordinary sensitivity to environmental concerns.

Taiwan Architecture Awards 2016 Winners

Taiwan Architecture Awards 2016

Taiwan Architecture Awards in 2016. The First Prize goes to the Yuhsiu Museum of Art, designed by the AMBI Studio. The building design finds a harmonic relationship between the natural environment and man-made structures.

Portola Valley Ranch San Francisco

Portola Valley Ranch

Design: Feldman Architecture. The client’s passion for the project brought new depth to the collaborative design process and fostered frank communications with the architect to create a coherent reality from the wishes they originally expressed.

Naremburn House in Sydney

Naremburn House in Sydney

Design: Bijl Architecture. This house in Sydney interrogates traditional typologies, providing a site-specific response with an emphasis on thoughtful spatial planning and a robust materiality in response to the client’s brief to ‘live long’.

Recreation House in Utrecht Property

Recreation House in Utrecht

Design: Zecc Architecten. In the rural area north of Utrecht a compact recreation house has been realized. The house is constructed in wood and opens its façade with window shutters towards the green garden

Porsche Design Centre in Weissach, Germany

Porsche Design Centre in Weissach

Design: HENN, architects. Functional areas that have to work together intensively in the early phase of product development are combined. Above the workshops, there is the styling area with the two large, double-storey studios.