AR+D Awards 2013: Emerging Architecture Prize

bunker 599

AR+D Awards for Emerging Architecture 2013 Joint winners – Hernan Diaz Alonso, Pitch Black ; RAAAF & Atelier de Lyon, Bunker 599 ; SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov, Museum for Architectural Drawing ; Studio Weave, Lullaby Factory.

Hanjie Wanda Square, Wuhan Building

Hanjie Wanda Square

Hanjie Wanda Square, China
Architect: Ben van Berkel / UNStudio

Hanjie Wanda Square is a new luxury shopping plaza located in the Wuhan Central Culture Centre, one of the most important areas of Wuhan City in China. The shopping plaza houses international brand stores, world-class boutiques, catering outlets and cinemas.

Birkenhead High School Academy Building

Birkenhead High School Academy

Birkenhead High School Academy design by Aedas, Architects has just completed a series of complex refurbishment and new build phases. The work was completed in stages to ensure full operation during the entire build process

Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport

Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport

Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport Building architect: Massimiliano Fuksas ; engineers: Knippers Helbig. On 28th November 2013 the new Terminal 3 at Shenzhen International Airport will open after just five years of planning and construction.

Morgan Library and Museum disability architecture

Renzo Piano and Joseph Mizzi

Photo of Renzo Piano and Joseph Mizzi, President of the Sciame Construction, added. “The future of architecture is rapidly requiring you to redesign the world to meet the requirements of the largest generation in world history.”

The Mall of Baltia, Kaliningrad Retail Centre

The Mall of Baltia, Kaliningrad

The concept masterplan has been completed for The Mall of Baltia, Kaliningrad, design by Broadway Malyan, Architects, the first ‘super’ retail and leisure centre in the region of Kaliningrad, a seaport city and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.

Old Doha Prize, Architecture Award

Old Doha Prize

Alicja Borkowska and Iris Papadatou from you&me architects announced as the UK winners of the first Old Doha Prize, an architectural competition to redesign part of the old city of Doha in Qatar

MAACM St. Petersburg, Florida building

MAACM St Petersburg

Alfonso Architects has been awarded the building project for the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, MAACM, to be built in St. Petersburg, FL, for collector Rudy Ciccarello and the Two Red Roses Foundation (TRRF).

Alberto Alfonso, AIA, will be the lead architect on the 90,000-sqft museum, which is scheduled to open in early 2016.

Monumental buildings: architecture monuments

Water Moon Monastery Building

This newsletter highlights monuments that define distinct shifts and clearly assign architecture as a marker of new world orders. Extraordinary images of completed buildings in Baku and Turkey, Taiwan, Panama, Padua, Leeds, New York and Moscow

The Structural Awards 2013 Winners News

Taizhou Bridge, China

The winners of The Structural Awards 2013 announced. The Awards, organised each year by The Institution of Structural Engineers, celebrate the world’s most talented structural designers and their indispensable contribution to the built environment.

Zaryadye Park Moscow Design Competition

Zaryadye Park Competition, Moscow

Diller Scofidio + Renfro wins Zaryadye Park competition. In Moscow, on the 12th November 2013, the winner was announced for the international competition to develop the landscaping and architectural concept of Zaryadye Park. This was the consortium headed by the architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York).