BSkyB Believe in Better Building London
Design: Arup Associates, Architects. BSkyB Believe in Better Building (BiBB) won the ‘Judges Special Award’ for this outstanding building as recognition of its reflection on Sky’s sustainable aspirations.
Adrian Welch
Annual Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class
Applications open for the 16th Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class – it can be a huge inspiration and possibly, as has been suggested by many previous participants, a ‘life changing’ experience.
Arnhem Station Building, Dutch railway hub design
Design: UNStudio / Arup. Arnhem Station will be officially opened this week, on 19 November. The multidisciplinary approach by the architecture firm UNStudio and Arup linked architectural design to human behaviour in a unique way.
Villa N Arezzo House, New Tuscany Property
This Tuscan property design by Architettura Matassonin is organized around a central courtyard with the function of home life’s core; this compositional logic allows a visual reciprocity between the different environments.
Tainan Urban Lagoon Transformation, Taiwan
Design: MVRDV / The Urbanist Collaborative / LLJ Architects. Competition win for the transformation of the T-axis in downtown Tainan, aiming to reconnect the city with nature and its waterfront by creating a lagoon and a green corridor with public interventions.
Biesbosch Museum Island Redevelopment, Werkendam
Design: Studio Marco Vermeulen. This museum building has been completely transformed and extended with a new wing that opens to its beautiful surroundings and houses a restaurant and temporary exhibition space for contemporary art.
Madrid Rio Landscape Design, Spain
Design: West 8 / MRIO Arquitectos. The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is pleased to announce that the 12th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded to Madrid Río, a new linear park designed by a team led by Ginés Garrido of Burgos & Garrido, including Porras & La Casta, Rubio & Álvarez-Sala, and West 8.
Barclay School Expansion in Montreal
Design: NFOE et associés architectes. Montreal grew rapidly during the first half of the 20th century and keeping pace was the construction of neighbourhood schools, often designed by well-known architects of the time.
Turning Torso Tower Malmo
Architect and Engineer: Santiago Calatrava. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is pleased to announce this year’s winner of the 10 Year Award, Malmö’s Turning Torso. This is a mixed-use residential tower for a prominent site in Malmö’s Western Harbor area.
Performing Arts Center World Trade Center, NYC
Henning Larsen Architects is one of three finalists in the international competition that featured the world’s greatest architecture firms. Danish design – recognized for its sophistication, integrity, and quality – is currently having a wide influence on cities and cultures throughout the world.
[MOSCOW] Circus School Competition
Moscow is the capital and the largest city of Russia with 12.2 million residents within the city and 16.8 within its urban area. It is a major political, economic, cultural, and scientific centre in Russia and Eastern Europe, as well as the largest city in the entire European continent.
Central Helsinki Citizens Park: Töölönlahti
Danish architects COBE and Finnish Lundén Architecture in collaboration with N2 have designed an ambitious proposal for the transformation of the heart of Finland’s capital, Helsinki, to a recreational and cultural citizens park.
The Why Factory Nanotechnology in Architecture
Is the end of brick and mortar near? How could nanotechnology change buildings and cities in the future? A speculation of The Why Factory on this topic is illustrated in the best tradition of science fiction in the newly published book Barba.
The Noodle Rack on the Xiangjiang River
Design: Lukstudio. Noodle soup is a common street food all over China. While most of these noodle joints spend tremendous effort to win customers with taste, some has started to add attractive store design into their branding recipe.