Chalet La Pedevilla Residence, Tyrol
Design: Pedevilla Architects. Hamlets, also called viles in the regional dialect, are small urban settlements, a unique cultural & architectural tradition which evolved throughout the centuries.
David McManus
European Prize for Urban Public Space Finalists
25 finalists selected from 276 entries, 2 awarded joint First Prize with 4 Special Mentions. The European Prize for Urban Public Space – a biennial architectural competition – recognizes and encourages recovery projects and defense of public space in cities.
NYCHA Red Hook Houses New York by KPF
Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) architects. The New York City Housing Authority—the city’s largest landlord with 178,000 apartments—has committed to introduce solar panels on its roofs from 2017.
Yale Center for British Art, Building
Design: Louis Kahn architect
After a decade of planning, eight years of renovation and a 16-month closure, this masterpiece designed by the Philadelphia architect during the last 15 years of his life reopens to the public on May 11.
Drøbak Architecture Competition Frogn
Norwegian Architecture Competition – architects shortlist news: Snøhetta, Haptic, Niels Torp, Jarmund Vigsnæs and Stein Halvorsen. Run by Frogn kommune, the 11,000sqm project has to achieve Passivhaus levels of energy performance.
k.21 Skardsøya, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Design: TYIN Architects. The cottage holds a special place in contemporary Norwegian culture. A few generations back the majority of the Norwegian people made a living from farming, fishing or lumbering, trades which afforded closeness with nature.
Sunderland Brewery Site Building by FCBS
Design: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, architects
Approval for the transformation of the former Vaux Brewery in Sunderland with a mixed-use building on a site that has remained empty since 1999.
2 WTC New York by Bjarke Ingels architect
Developer Silverstein Properties uncertain whether it will retain Bjarke Ingels Group for the project or go with original architect Foster + Partners, but learning toward Danish architecture studio BIG.
Smart School Irkutsk Education Campus
The vision for the Smart School project by CEBRA Architects is to create a new type of school – a “School Park” – that unites architecture and landscape into a unique learning environment and gathering point for the local community.
New Aerial Cable Car in Chicago Navy Pier
Design: Marks Barfield Architects and Davis Brody Bond
The Chicago Skyline is a proposed new aerial cable car tourist attraction linking Navy Pier, the Chicago Lakefront, the Riverwalk running alongside the Chicago River, and downtown Chicago.
Dukla Sports Complex, Pardubice Building
The competition focuses on creating a new, contemporary conception for the Dukla sports complex, a sporting area with one of the greatest potentials in the Czech Republic, and its immediate surroundings.
London Science Museum Building, South Kensington
London Science Museum New Events Spaces Architects Shortlist. Alison Brooks Architects ; Duggan Morris ; Originate ; RCKa ; Wright & Wright. The winning architecture studio will be named in July.
Tel Aviv University Center for Nanoscience
Tel Aviv University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Competition winner: Atelier d’Architecture Michel Remon from France wins this Israeli architecture contest.
Detroit MLS Stadium & District, Michigan
Design: ROSSETTI. The development proposed by Rock Ventures and Platinum Equity will mark the main entry point to downtown Detroit, forming a welcoming gateway to the city at the intersection of I-‐375 and Gratiot.
RIBA Southwest Awards 2016 buildings
Winning buildings: Ansty Plum ; Blackrock Quarry Training Centre ; Bridport Household Recycling Centre ; Drawing Studio, Poole ; Gloucester Services ; Outhouse, Brockweir ; Plymouth School of Creative Arts ; Sand Dunes, Newquay ; Student Services Building, Bournemouth ; The Owers House
House in Mosha, Damavand County
Design: New Wave Architecture. “It is inevitable that the innate trend of human being is tangled to natural landscape, The location of project is Mosha site in the vicinity of north side of Tehran in domains of Alborz mountains.”
Belfast Architecture Photos: New Buildings
Belfast building photos – info + images of new architecture in Northern Ireland – Belfast architecture photos, best new Northern Irish buildings