David McManus 
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios news – Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is one of eleven buildings shortlisted for Royal Institute of British Architects West Midlands Awards; FCBS has won approval for the transformation of the former Vaux Brewery in Sunderland.
AIA San Francisco news – open to architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, and architectural lighting firms with 19 or fewer employees, Small Firms, Great Projects provides a platform for small firms to feature their best work in print, online & in exhibition.
SOMA Architects news – 45 Park Place, Tribeca, New York City ; Unilux Showroom, Jall Ed Dib, Lebanon wins 2016 Architizer A+Awards best retail award: winners selected based on excellence in form, function and innovation.
British Architect Will Alsop Dies Aged 70. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association (AA) in London, England, where he came runner-up in the architectural competition for the Pompidou Centre in Paris, aged just 23.
RIBA Awards for International Excellence 2018 for this building design by Rogers, Stirk Harbour + Partners with Legorreta + Legorreta: a new urban landmark on the skyline of Mexico City, the BBVA Bancomer tower marks the gateway to the Paseo de la Reforma from Chapultepec Park.
RIBA Award for this building design by Kraaijvanger Architects with museum owner Joop van Caldenborgh: the new building displays his collection of contemporary art in a “modern but classical” symmetrical building: an elegant white colonnade, six parallel walls extending into the landscape.
RIBA Awards for International Excellence 2018 for this building design by Renzo Piano Building Workshop – RPBW: in its new home the Greek National Opera will become an exciting destination for music lovers and architecture cognoscenti alike
A delightful building by architects Li Xiadong/Atelier for a small village on the outskirts of Beijing: “we found large amounts of locally sourced wooden sticks piled around each house…(for) cooking stoves. Thus we decided to use this ordinary material in an extraordinary way, cladding the building in familiar textures in a way that is strikingly sensitive.”
Construction starts on the Paddington Cube architecture design by celebrated Italian architects Renzo Piano Building Workshop. The £825m office retail and leisure development next to Paddington Station for developer Sellar Group remains controversial.
Design: Snøhetta, architects. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to open the transformed SFMOMA building to the public on Saturday, May 14, 2016, offering nearly three times the previous exhibition space.
Design: Cadaval & Solà-Morales – the design establishes three separate living quarters designed in accordance to the 3 activities planned; each of them is a set space defined by its use, but also by a very clear and simple architectural container: an open bar with a kitchenette ; a play area for children ; and the largest container – the living area.
Westminster Abbey, London, England – building images, Royal wedding venue – historic Westminster building, architecture & architect: venue for Royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton
Design: Aedas, architects. MOKO in Hong Kong was recognised with a Gold Award for its design excellence at Design and Development – Renovations/Expansions category at ICSC Asia Pacific Shopping Center Awards 2016.
Millau Viaduct: the bridge not only has a dramatic silhouette, but crucially, it also makes the minimum intervention in the landscape. Lit at night, it traces a slender ribbon of light across the valley.
Planning approval for scheme by architects Gort Scott for St Hilda’s College, Oxford. The concept design features a slender tower, rooftop gardens with wild-flower planting, and a riverside pavilion. Other finalists in the architecture competition were 6a architects, DRDH Architects, Hall McKnight and Tim Ronalds Architects.
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects doubles its partner group with the appointment of seven new partners. The firm announces promotions across two of its three offices, indicating a generational shift for a practice known around the world for its iconic, sustainable cultural and civic architecture.
