David McManus 
“Unequivocally, Shanghai Tower will be one of the most sustainably-advanced…skyscrapers in the world,” says architect Marshall Strabala. The second-tallest building in the world, and tallest building in China, pushed Chicago’s Willis Tower, once the world’s tallest, out of the Top 10 list.
Design: Lin Xueming
Every year the China Institute of Interior Design (CIID) hosts an “Open Exhibit” showcasing the world’s best creative talent and cutting edge design products.
Design: Studio RHE Architects. Trilogy Property and LaSalle Investment Management appoint a team of consultants to transform the 600,000 sqft office campus East India Dock into a new hub for innovation, co-working, cultural and tech sectors.
Architecture contest winners news – New York City has seen rapid redevelopment that has capitalized on previously undesirable locations. Most ventures are private economic interests only addressing public value when profit is possible.
Design: Arq. Gabriela Caicedo-Liebert / Home Vision DNA. The intention was to achieve an architecture of dignity and honesty. The front façade expresses the key characteristics of MIMO, an architectural style that evolved from Art Deco and Streamline.
Design: OMA New York, architects. Two conceptual plans have been created for the 190-acre RFK Stadium-Armory Campus site, with design concepts by OMA New York, led by partner Jason Long, in partnership with DC-based program management team, Brailsford & Dunlavey
Two stage architectural competition to create new house typologies. In 2018 Taylor Wimpey plan to build the winning prototypes.
Design: Kengo Kuma & Associates, architects. Alberni by Kuma is a 43-storey residential tower at Alberni and Cardero designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma for Westbank Projects Corp in Vancouver.
Design: Ædifica. Groupe Dynamite is a women’s clothing retailer operating 315 stores worldwide under two brands, Dynamite and Garage. Located in Town of Mount Royal’s industrial sector, the head office occupies two large industrial buildings with more than 500 employees.
Deadline extended to May 20: a call for works of art or design – a selection of twenty ‘Objects’ to be exhibited around a symposium by the Center for American Architecture and Design (CAAD) at The University of Texas at Austin.
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Architectus selected from shortlist of four architectural design teams to design the $83.1 million State Library of Victoria Vision 2020 redevelopment in Melbourne, Australia.
RIBA Northeast Awards winners news
The winning buildings are: Ashington Community & Leisure Centre – Ryder Architecture ; Crook Hall Visitor Centre – Elliott Architects ; Edge Hill – Sutherland Hussey Harris ; Hebburn Central – FaulknerBrowns Architects ; The Paise – Newton Architects
Richard Murphy Architects news
– Kinnear Road Building, Inverleith, north Edinburgh
– Anglia Ruskin University Building, Young Street Campus Cambridge: Winner of Cambridge Design and Construction Forum for Best Large Building
– alternative proposals to transform Edinburgh’s former Royal High School into a new music school endorsed by Historic Environment Scotland
Pedagogy and Place: Celebrating 100 Years of Architecture Education at Yale, looks back on the evolution of Yale’s unique approach, beginning with an early Beaux-Arts influence to mid-century leadership under architect Paul Rudolph.
Crazy golf course for London’s Trafalgar Square – crowd-funding campaign. London Design Festival is hoping to raise £120,000 for the Visionary Crazy Golf, dreamt up by artists and designers, including the late architect Zaha Hadid.
Design: Cubo and jaja, with VBM, Schul Landscape, Søren Jensen Engineers, and Professor Mogens Morgen of The Aarhus School of Architecture
International architecture competition to form a masterplan for Nyborg Castle on the island of Funen.
Design: John McAslan + Partners. Consent obtained for refurbishment of the Grade II listed Millbank Tower to form 207 flats as well as a 150 bedroom hotel, gardens and a new cultural facility.