National Tennis Centre London Roehampton
The canopy is formed from composite pneumatic fabric and steel beams (42m span) braced by an exo-skeleton of tensile fabric and struts covering two clay courts with an area of 1600m2
Adrian Welch
Hereford Buttermarket Building Competition
Austin-Smith:Lord are the winners of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) open ideas competition which will inform the redevelopment of Hereford’s Buttermarket.
Third Prix Pictet Awards buildings, architects
Kofi Annan, Honorary President of the Prix Pictet, announced 17 March 2011, Mitch Epstein as the winner of the third Prix Pictet photography prize for environmental sustainability.
Civic Sports Center Shenyang: Chinese arena
The site for this project is located at the heart of downtown Shenyang. Adjacent to Zhongshan Park, it is a connector between the natural and urban life of the city, making it a perfect location for a sports complex and for a National Games Arena
Klahr Article: Slum Housing Architecture
Slum Housing, architecture article by Douglas Klahr, 2011: new type of social responsibility that is as raw and gritty as the global crisis of one billion slum dwellers
Lake Superior House: Minnesota Home
The weekend house is reduced to a few essential elements. The main house and a small studio are arranged on a black platform that rests just above the ground. The two black volumes frame the water of Lake Superior as it extends toward the distant horizon.
Architectural Context: Melissa Beasley
This week’s guest editor Melissa Beasley is a registered architect working for studio octopi in Southwark, London. She studied at Newcastle and Bath Universities and has previously worked for Peregrine Bryant Architecture & Building Conservation and Russell Jones Ltd.
Chinese Architectural Development: Building
Chinese Architectural Development: While most designers in the Western world are trying to survive and repair the damage of the economic crisis, and while the architecture profession is searching hard for another paradigm, China continues to build happily enormous amounts of square meters up into the sky.
Potters Fields London, Southwark Towers
Squire and Partners Gains Planning Consent for Potters Fields: Berkeley Homes and Squire and Partners are delighted at Southwark Council’s decision to consent the Potters Fields plans.
Old Trafford Cricket Ground: Lancashire County
The scheme to create new pitches, two new grandstands and a new pavilion also includes the creation of a Tesco store on a neighbouring 50-acre site. LCCC said the decision had secured its future as a Test cricket venue.
Aberdeen Sports Village Centre, athletics facility
Aberdeen Sports Village building design by Reiach and Hall Architects has won the ‘Health / Education + Leisure Building Award,’ as part of the Aberdeen Society of Architects Chapter Awards, announced on 11th March 2011
TMW Technical Museum Vienna – Building Interior
Technical Museum Vienna, Austrian Residential Building, Viennese Housing Development TMW – Technical Museum Vienna, Austria Contemporary Austrian Architecture design by querkraft architekten 14 Mar 2011 TMW Technical Museum Vienna new entrance foyer and shop Technisches Museum Wien Design: querkraft architekten during summer 2010 the technical museum together with querkraft architekten designed a new entrance foyer … Read more
Flowing Gardens, Xi’an building, China
Flowing Gardens is an international competition-winning ecological environmental design collaboration between architects Plasma Studio and landscape urbanism practice GroundLab for the Xi’an International Horticultural Exposition 2011.
Trafford Town Hall Building
5plus Architects and Shepherd Developments have secured planning permission from Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council for the redevelopment of its town hall.