David McManus 
The Royal Institute of British Architects and AHR announce Boon Yik Chung as 2016/17 winner of RIBA AHR Stephen Williams Scholarship. He did his Part 1 at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and works at muf architecture/art LLP.
Design: Geraghty Taylor Architects. Award-winning creative property developers, Allied London have revealed the details of their first, two residential communities within their St. John’s neighbourhood.
archasm architecture contest winners news – 1st prize: Moussa Belkacem (France) ; 2nd prize: Hankang Jin, Dinullah Bayu Ibrahim (Italy) ; 3rd prize: Yang Fei, Weizhe Gao (China) – jury notes & images
Design: LAVA, with INBO and JHK. Golden light shines through a canopy of leaves to create a unique gathering space in the atrium of this new hq building.
Design: Diamond Schmitt Architects + KWC Architects. This joint venture design to transform Ottawa’s century-old train station building to become an interim home for The Senate of Canada has been approved by the National Capital Commission.
Design: Arte Charpentier Architectes. Taiyuan is situated in the province of Shanxi in the northeast of China. In the centre of a basin overhung by two mountains ranges – the city is currently undergoing rapid development, as a result imposing reflections on its planning and scope.
Cities all over the world are in dire need of new ways to house a rapidly growing urban population. This international wood design competition invites architects and students to solve the challenges of urbanization in both sustainable and humane ways.
Design: Kidosaki Architects Studio. The owner of this spectacular Japanese house spent years to find the steeply sloping site. The architect links the beautiful vast sea of trees with the internal space. When you open the large door to the living room, Mt. Asama appears in the picture window frame.
Design: Bill Pedersen – Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) architects. 90-story, 1,296-ft-tall office tower now 15 floors above street level. The 2.6-m-sqft tower is be the second-tallest office building in New York, taller than the Empire State Building and home to the highest outdoor observation deck in the city.
George Lucas abandons plans to build his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago. It may move to Treasure Island in San Francisco, California. SF city and museum representatives are in early discussions about a site on Treasure Island. The Chicago design was by Ma Yansong of Chinese architecture studio MAD Architects.
Copenhagen building photos: architectural images of key new buildings in the Danish Capital, plus some older classics such as Københavns Rådhus: Danish architecture images.
Design: Matt Architecture / SODA. Campaign to halt demolition of former Foyles bookshop gathers steam. To be replaced by new-build 300,000 sqft building of office-led accommodation plus shops, restaurants, bars, offices, apartments and a new education-led gallery.
Alexander Brenner Architekten news. This German architecture practice was established in 1990 in Stuttgart, Germany. The atelier focuses on villas and residential houses, art galleries and private art collections
Design: Andres Duany of Duany Plater-Zyberk. A group of Japanese house building professionals visit Scotland’s largest planned new town as part of sustainable communities within Europe study. The 8,000 home £2bn development will sit on 2,000 acres of Aberdeenshire farmland.
Hisham A. Alsager Cardiac Center by AGi architects, the international design firm led by architects Joaquin Perez-Goicoechea and Nasser Abulhasan, have been shortlisted by the World Architecture Festival to compete for a WAF award 2016 in the Completed Buildings Health category.
One57 (nicknamed “The Billionaire Building“) is a 75-story skyscraper by Atelier Christian de Portzamparc. One of the penthouses is the first to surpass $100 million, the most expensive apartment ever sold in NYC.
Berlin’s tallest residential tower design submitted to city planners: 150m-high skyscraper design by Ortner & Ortner Baukunst architects would be second only in height to the city’s 368m tall TV tower, Fernsehturm Berlin