Bradley + McAleenan Architects, Chelsea, London

Bradley + McAleenan Architects house

Bradley + McAleenan Architects news

Award-winning architect Patrick Bradley has teamed up with fellow designer Bernard McAleenan to open their new offices in Chelsea. Patrick gained recognition for his Grand Designs new-build made from storage containers.

Design Museum Design Awards, UK

UC Innovation Centre in Chile

A Chilean university building by ELEMENTAL has won the architecture category of the Design Museum’s Design of the Year Award.
The top prize went to the UC Innovation Centre building in Chile.

New Holland Island West 8 Landscape

New Holland Island West 8 Landscape

New Holland Development chose to organize a full-fledged city park rather than a building. To implement this idea, they employed West 8, under the direction of Design Director Edzo Bindels.

181 Fremont San Francisco Skyscraper

181 Fremont San Francisco Skyscraper

Arup, the global design and engineering firm for the built environment, and Jay Paul Company, an award-winning real estate firm based in San Francisco, announce that 181 Fremont (the third tallest structure in San Francisco) has achieved a REDi™ Gold Rating, which will make it the most resilient tall building on the West Coast of the U.S. when completed.

Riga Apartments, Latvia Contemporary Homes

Riga Apartment Building

The trend of eco-minimalism has become very expressive in the post-crisis architecture therefore, there is a belief that “V4 Rezidence” will gain popularity among both the residents of the quiet center and the potential apartment buyers.

RER E Station, Nanterre Building

RER E Station Nanterre Building

Design: KCAP Architects&Planners. Architectural competition for the design of a train station, a 14.000 m² office building and four bridges, one of which is a pedestrian bridge. Completion of the buildings is estimated for 2020

Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016 Winners

Superkilen, Copenhagen

Six winning architectural projects for the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, selected by the Master Jury from amongst 348 projects, competing for US$ 1 million in prize money. Info + images for the winning buildings and architects.

Friendship Centre, Gaibandha Building

Friendship Centre Gaibandha Building

Architect: Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA. A community centre which makes a virtue of an area susceptible to flooding in rural Bangladesh. Offices, a library, meeting rooms, and prayer and tea rooms are included in pavilion-like buildings surrounded by courts and pools.

Bait Ur Rouf Mosque, Dhaka Building Bangladesh

Bait Ur Rouf Mosque

Architect: Marina Tabassum. A refuge for spirituality in urban Dhaka, selected for its beautiful use of natural light. Ventilation and the play of light make this neighbourhood mosque a refuge for spirituality. After a difficult life and the loss of her husband and near relatives, the client donated a part of her land for a mosque to be built. A temporary structure was erected.

New York architecture photos: Manhattan images

New York architecture photo by Simon Garcia

New York City building photos. Manhattan architecture images, including intriguing W57 New York City by BIG architects, classics like the Guggenheim and Seagram Building, and the soaring 432 Park Avenue by Rafael Viñoly architect.

Jameson House Vancouver tower building

Jameson House Vancouver tower building

Design: Foster + Partners, architects. A 35-storey mixed-use tower in the heart of Vancouver. The building includes the first residential development to be completed by this architecture studio in North America

Masdar Design Competition, Abu Dhabi Contest

Masdar Plaza near Abu Dhabi by LAVA

Design: Laboratory for Visionary Architecture – giant umbrellas, with a design based on the principles of sunflowers, provide moveable shade in the day, store heat, then close and release the heat at night in the plaza of a new eco-city in the United Arab Emirates.