Amir Shakib Arslan Mosque, Mukhtarah Building

Amir Shakib Arslan Mosque in Mukhtarah

Design: L.E.FT, Architects. This building occupies a renovated cross-vaulted space, adding a veiled steel structure and a plaza in front. The slender minaret is formed of thinly-sliced steel plates, linked horizontally through a canopy to a curved entry wall.

Bluecoat Liverpool City Centre Building

Bluecoat Liverpool City Centre’s Oldest Building

It is Liverpool’s oldest surviving city centre building and a fine example of Queen Anne-style architecture, yet the builders and architects responsible for creating Bluecoat have remained unconfirmed – until now. New research has discovered fresh information about the origins of this much-loved Liverpool building, which dates from 1717 and started life as a charity school before becoming a centre for the contemporary arts.

DuPont Tyvek Roofing Underlays Testing

DuPont Tyvek Modular Office Block Development

Concerned by multiple reports of some alternative vapour-open underlays failing in their secondary water shedding role, DuPont™ Tyvek® instigated a thorough investigation into ‘real world’ performance.

Fusion Building, Talbot Campus, Bournemouth

Fusion Building Talbot Campus

Design: BDP, architects. The new building is the focal point on the main Talbot Campus. It fuses education, research and professional practice using flexible informal study and social collaborative spaces. Shared facilities foster cross-school activity and maximise space utilisation.

Medibank Place in Melbourne

Medibank Place in Melbourne

Dynamic interior, a new head office in Melbourne’s Docklands, design by HASSELL, architects. The new workplace was part of a major cultural change program for Australia’s largest health insurer to live its purpose to the core and create better health outcomes for its members, employees and the community.

Split View Mountain Lodge in Havsdalen, Buskerud

Split View Mountain Lodge

Design: Reiulf Ramstad Architects. This Norwegian holiday home has a clean-cut expression. The main wing houses mainly bedrooms and divides into two branches. The shift in program and different levels lets the building adapt to the slope.

Blood Center in Racibórz, Poland

Blood Center in Racibórz

Design: FAAB Architektura. Blood red building housing cool rooms, blood collecting unit, advanced medical laboratories, blood radiation laboratory, offices and conference center. It is very red!

Guangzhou Museum Building

Guangzhou Museum Building

Design: gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners · Architects. New images of this prize-winning competition entry for Guangzhou City Museum. With the adjacent Science Museum and Art Museum it will form the central cultural precinct of this third-largest Chinese city.

PATCH22 Residence in Amsterdam Property

PATCH22 Residence in Amsterdam

Design: FRANTZEN et al architecten. Energy-neutral building with a unique 30m high wooden loadbearing structure in which the wooden columns, beams and walls remain visible. Apartments use hollow floors for totally flexible layouts. The building provides its own energy

The Piazza Residence Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

The Piazza Residence in Jeddah

Design: Badih and Kantar Architects. This intimate residential complex is inspired by the way Mediterranean cities have evolved: low-rise buildings provide a relaxed informality with bridging terraces connecting many properties.

University of Stuttgart Research Pavilion 2015

University of Stuttgart Research Pavilion 2015 building

Design: University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning team. New photos of this German pavilion building constructed using a novel robotic fabrication. It shows the architectural potential of a building method inspired by the water spider’s underwater nest construction.

Greenwich Village Apartment in New York

Greenwich Village apartment interior design

Design: Raad Studio, architects. Clean renovation of full floor, 25’ x 94’ space in a 1902 industrial loft building. A sleek, minimalist kitchen/dining area with a 23 foot floating Corian island is the focus of the property.

Botanic Center Bloom Brussels building design

Botanic Center Bloom Brussels

Design: Vincent Callebaut Architectures. New images of urban renewal project limiting carbon emissions in the European Union capital. The role of architects “involves advocating for a hybrid history”, and making bold choices.

Riba Bar in Leblon, Rio de Janeiro

Riba Bar in Leblon

Design: SuperLimão Studio + André Piva Arquitetura + Laika Design

This small, richly detailed building integrates internal and external spaces. Free of doors the bar appropriates the street corner. Peeling walls reveal the structure of the building, framing and enhancing the kitchen and counter.

AAG2016 Conference: Lord Norman Foster

Norman Foster Francis Aish Martha Tsigkari at AAG2016 ETH Zurich

Renowned architect Lord Norman Foster, together with Francis Aish, Head of Applied Research and Development at Foster + Partners, presented a public keynote lecture to the Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference (AAG2016) organised by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication at ETH Zurich.