David McManus 
Design: IBI Group, Architects. Woodland View, a £46m adult acute mental health and community facility in Irvine has opened. Full of natural light, the design promotes excellent observation inside and out.
Design: Make Architects. Latest building proposal for the City of London: the 37-storey skyscraper towers over historic Leadenhall Market. The building, for developer Brookfield, will contain a free public viewing gallery.
Design Architect: BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group. One of the largest remaining development sites in the Hudson Yards rezoning, owned by Tishman Speyer: the building has 65 floors, containing 2.85 million sqft.
Design: Elkus Manfredi, Architects. The lower blocks of the Upper West Side have given rise to a sprinkling of skyscrapers in recent years. The tower will rise 666 feet to its roof, becoming the tallest building on the Upper West Side.
The Triumph Pavilion project is an annual showcase, an exciting celebration of architecture and design. Encouraging architectural experimentation and exploration – including form, function and material – the building part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture.
Design: SAOTA – Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects. The clients, a British couple living in Cape Town, requested a six-bedroom, seven-level home that makes the most of the site, the views and the mountain. The lower levels of the existing structure were totally remodelled while the upper level was demolished to allow for two new levels.
Rolfe Judd Architects news – Peter May Stand opens at the KIA Oval, Kennington, London, UK – The Home of Surrey County Cricket Club
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Design: Studio MK27. The Txai House merges elements of the vernacular colourful Bahian Houses with the precise lines of Brazilian Modern architecture. It is located in front of a beautiful beach in the city of Itacaré in the Brazilian northeast.
Design: Kjellander + Sjöberg Architects. The project It Takes a Block has been announced as the winner for the design innovation competition – The Nordic Built City Challenge – for the Swedish site in Sege Park in Malmö.
Design: AZPML with Beckman N’Thépé Architectes
AZPML wins architecture competition to design three residential blocks in Luxembourg. Units are part of wider development of nine blocks designed by various architects.
Architect: Nikken Sekkei, Architects. Singapore is set to have its own ‘low line’ version of New York’s famous High Line, but 10 times as long, with 24km of disused rail corridor transformed as parkland. 122 access points connect back into major roads, transport hubs and new urban development.
Winning buildings + architects news. Jury chaired by Willie Watt included Denise Bennetts, Alan Jones, Andy Leitch and Stuart McKill. The Edinburgh house by Richard Murphy Architects won a separate RIBA Award for Scotland
Design Architect: Foster + Partners. This 61-storey residential tower at 100 E 53rd Street on the corner of Lexington and 53rd Street, it replaces the old YWCA building in Midtown Manhattan.
Design: OMA, architects / Mia Lehrer + Associates / IDEO. Team selected to design a new public park at First and Broadway for the City’s Department of Recreation and Parks, and soon to be one of the most important civic spaces in the city’s vibrant downtown core.
Poised on the ridges and rolling fields where the Beartooth Mountains touch Montana’s big sky, this new building will open to the public on June 17, offering a “uniquely resonant experience of great classical music, nestled among sculptures and buildings that hug the land like natural formations.”
Design: LAVA. These tall buildings form an iconic entrance to the city of Hangzhou. The design of the two towers is based on the Chinese characters for ‘gate’, and they feature a shimmering façade of fins
Site-specific architectural installation inspired by nature and fabricated by robots – design to be highlight of the V&A’s first ever Engineering Season.