PM Better Public Building Award 2008
The Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital in Brighton, designed by BDP, has won the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award, at a ceremony in London on 8 October 2008.
The Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital in Brighton, designed by BDP, has won the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award, at a ceremony in London on 8 October 2008.
Of a possible 11 awards presented during the gala dinner in Dubai, Atkins was short listed as a finalist in four categories and claimed the top honours of Architect of the Year and Young Architect of the Year, beating off stiff competition.
The Al Sharq office building quietly pursues a rigorous sustainability agenda. A shallow plan office floor plate with heavily shaded facades reduces the tower’s environmental footprint and provides an internal environment with extremely high levels of occupant comfort, flooded with diffuse natural light.
Arup Advanced Geometry Unit – Morning Line Sculpture by Artist Matthew Ritchie – architects, engineers, photo, England studio info: Arup AGU news & images
Mansefield Place is a new build housing development in Rothesay, Isle of Bute. It was commissioned by Fyne Homes, a housing association who own and maintain social housing across the wider Argyll and Bute area in Scotland.
Situated in the heart of Mayfair, the Sebastian + Barquet gallery will create 66 square metres of versatile exhibition space as well as offices and a private viewing room.
International award-winning architecture firm RMJM has been selected by Nakheel, one of the world’s largest real estate developers, to design the one-million-square-metre “Madinat Al Soor” mixed-use development, a sustainable, modern pedestrian city for approximately 22,000 new residents.
Ushida Findlay Architects (UFA) and Holmes Partnership have received planning permission to build a unique eco-friendly residence for five branches of a single family
Village Duplex New York, East 10th Street Home, NY Architecture New York Village Duplex East 10th Street Apartment Renovation, Manhattan, NYC, USA – design by Studio ST Architects Oct 6, 2008 Village Duplex New York Duplex for a Bachelor 70 East 10th Street, New York, NY Design: Studio ST Architects The project is a 2200 … Read more
Jewish Museum of New York Exhibition, Off the Wall – design by Studio ST Architects & Z-A, USA – info + pictures of Jewish Museum of New York show
Studio ST Architects completed construction of a renovation combining two small apartments into a gracious, functional duplex home for the client.
Gouverneur New York, USA – design by RMJM,architects – NY healthcare development at 227 Madison Street, $180 m modernization, building images: architecture
Charity Hospital New Orleans, MCLNO, Louisiana building design by RMJM Architects – MCLNO New Orleans, health architecture USA: images
This is a fairly simple building design by a borough council architects department. The roofline is interesting and the building is fairly well articulated but the UK does not have a strong tradition (these days) of high quality council architecture departments.