David McManus 
A context sensitive approach is developed, in a way analogous to that done by a winemaker: collection of agricultural materials, handling, biological conception, fermentation, climatic conception, landscape accumulations
Black Sea Gardens Bulgaria – design by Foster + Partners – residential building, Bulgarian holiday property, new Black Sea Gardens buildings design
Amsterdam swimming pool building, Holland sports centre building design by Mecanoo architecten – Swimming Pool and Sports Centre het Marnix, Netherlands
To mark the election of the Maya city of Chichen Itzá as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World ARQUITECTUM, a company which organizes architecture competitions, is pleased to welcome the world’s architects to the 5th Landscape Architecture Competition “CHICHEN ITZA 2008”.
The project comes up from the intention of creating an entertainment space for adults of 30 years old and over. The place houses a lounge and a restaurant-bar area connected by a lobby.
A project of this nature must encourage introspection and peaceful visual harmony through a discrete use of materials and lighting. The construction is located in a residential area and being planned as an isolated construction from the surroundings, an indoor illuminated yard was built.
This Mexican retail project comes to set a new architectural statement in the Pedregal area of Mexico City which has been neglected, because nothing new and important had happened since its beginings when “Cuidad Universitaria” was built.
Located in downtown Mexico City across the “Alameda Central”, sharing Avenida Juarez along with the “Palacio de Bellas Artes”, “Casa de los Azulejos” and the “Torre Latinoamericana” is located Sheraton Centro Historico Hotel, one of the most important projects of Pascal Arquitectos.
This practice seem to be inactive, their website is not working when checked on 14th March 2020, and their facebook does not appear to have been updated since 2016. Readers comments welcome.
The Mayor of Zarautz, Jon Urien, announced that out of the entries by co-finalists Zaha Hadid, Eduardo Arroyo, FOA and Kenzo Kuma the design by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU had been elected as the winning project.
Tom Heneghan architect – chair at University of Sydney, Tokyo, Australia: Japanese architecture – Japan, Professor, teacher: building design
Porto architecture competition, Portugal for Oporto water towers and surroundings of underground water tanks – Portuguese architectural contest news
William Adam, father of famous Scottish architect Robert Adam, was born at Kirkcaldy in 1689. He was appointed in 1729 as the Surveyor of the Kings’ Works in Scotland
Keith Williams’ latest London project, a radical new build 706 sqm house for a private family client in a St Johns Wood conservation area has been completed.
Coop Himmelb(l)au Book : BMW Welt, Munich – architecture publication info, design, image, Vienna, Austria – Coop Himmelb(l)au Architects Book
Jamie Troughton trained as an architect at Cambridge, England, and now runs two real estate development companies in Scotland. Jamie Troughton has worked with the Henry Moore Foundation, the De La Warr pavilion and the National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh
New Kings Road Offices: Fulham commercial development, London design by ORMS Architects – office building Fulham, new property