Adrian Welch
With its remarkable, sculptural shape, the culture centre of Utrecht piques the curiosity of the endless stream of passers-by and future users of the library, cinema, shops, and book café integrated in the building.
Ambitious plans for a major mixed use development of the current City College site at Pelham Street in the heart of the city will provide for over 16,500 square metres of education floorspace, a youth hostel, student accommodation, an employment enterprise centre, 70 homes, a health clinic and a new public urban space.
From human being origins, people doing circles around someone who is speaking, singing, dancing or arguing – under a tree shadow if possible – has been the main characteristic of performing.
Spotlight: The Rice Design Alliance Prize – information on architects, buildings, images – Rice Design Alliance prize, RDA architecture award news
House of Arts and Culture Beirut: design by Lebanon architecture competition winner – Alberto Catalano. Cultural project funded by a grant from the Sultanate of Oman to the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lebanon.
The architecture practice headed by RIBA Stirling Prize-winning architect Amanda Levete, has completed Central Embassy, a striking 37 floor tall retail, leisure and hotel tower in central Bangkok for Central Group, Thailand’s leading retailer and department store operator.
Construction has begun on the first phase of the new, £300m Mittal Children’s Medical Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOSH), which is on target to become the UK’s ‘greenest’ medical building to date.
C.F. Hansen Medal, Architecture Award Denmark – awarded to Kim Herforth Nielsen in 2009: information on architects, buildings, images – Danish Architecture Award, news
Energy from the Earth: With its establishment in 1992 the Forschungszentrum Dresden – Rossendorf took over the task of developing a modern, internationally competitive research institution at this location. For this purpose steps had to be initiated to modernize buildings and infrastructure in order to run them on a commercially viable basis.
The dichotomy between high and low culture is slowly disappearing. But how can we create an environment that is inspiring for everyone? Is it possible to be elitist and populist at the same time? How can we envision a truly Public building?
New York City Projects – designs by Enrique Norten, TEN Arquitectos: info + images of their NYC building designs – Manhattan designs like Clinton Park
Award for Hamilton Partners, developer and owner; Environmental Systems Design, Inc. (ESD), building systems design engineer and sustainability consultant; and Wright Heerema Architects: office building design in Mettawa, Illinois
South Molton Street London, Oxford Street building development, Mayfair property design by DSDHA Architects for Kenmore + Appley Properties: building
The government review into further education funding must report urgently if action is to be taken to prevent hundreds of job losses in the engineering and design sector according to Atkins, the biggest player in the market.