Adrian Welch
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
Arup Associates news – National Stadium Building in Singapore + New Doha Tennis Stadium at Khalifa Sports Park, Qatar + BSkyB Believe in Better Building Award
Design: Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup, architects – The NMAAHC building opened on September 24. Architect David Adjaye establishes a “strong conceptual resonance with America’s deep and longstanding African heritage”.