David McManus 
Innovative New Performing Arts Venue in European Cultural Hub
Arup help project stakeholders define a facility that supports exploration and experimentation in the future of dramatic performances with music.
Design: ZHOU Qi Studio, Architects
The form of the High-rise building comes from Chinese character “People”, corresponding to the title of the media People’s Daily. The triangular plan is transformed from the structure of the character “People”.
Architecture Contest in Moscow – winning design by Zaha Hadid Architects. Five leading architecture firms were selected to participate in the competition.
Design: David Guerra, architect
The idea was to create a house linked to nature which works as a big deck of contemplation and sociability using natural material to make an atmosphere of snugness in a contemporary proposal.
Images of designs by the five finalist teams selected to develop concept designs in the second stage of this architecture competition: Carmody Groarke, dRMM, Eric Parry Architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Purcell.
Design: Cai-In Interior Design Co., architects. The building integrates natural elements into a workable composition. The fish-scale-like exterior design is composed of the repeating and overlapping blocks: sunshine sifts through those gaps among the ‘scales’.
A House for Essex design by FAT Architecture + Grayson Perry. Stirling Prize awards chief blames communication blunder for oversight and vows to give it second chance. This fascinating building missed out on an RIBA East Award despite many believing it would win a regional accolade
Sybarite Architects news. Recipients of a Queen’s Award for International Trade. The London-based architects office was recognised for their extensive work in the booming Chinese fashion market.
The Merdeka PNB 118 development in Malaysia design by The Buchan Group, architects, was launched by Malaysian Prime Minister, with a 118-storey tower and shopping mall by Permodalan Nasional Berhad.
Design: Arup with HOK. The facilities – a City Hall, Port HQ, Main Library, Public Park and street improvements – are designed to be occupied within a week of a major earthquake and meet REDi Gold earthquake performance.
King’s Cross buildings – new photos. The German Gymnasium, a new restaurant designed by Conran and Partners, originally built in 1865 – England’s first purpose-built gymnasium for the German Gymnastics Society.
Design: Architettura Matassoni. TLI house – the daily activities are not divided in a rigid way in different moments, the thought is fluid and elastic, the perceptions of spaces are continuous and dynamic, so architecture have to be fluid, without too schematisms, rigid divisions and multifunctional
Design: Ryumei Fujiki + Yukiko Sato / F.A.D.S. Planned with careful consideration for air circulation as well as for the harsh, snowy climate of the Japan Sea coast, the structure is composed of white boxes of varying scale that frame spaces like pictures.
AIT-Scholarship of the Sto Foundation ‘Interior Scholarship’: Interior design students from end of their second year, in Europe: €21,000 total, up to €580 p/month for one year
Davis Brody Bond Architects and Planners news
American architecture practice: design offices in United States + Brasil – Davis Brody Bond USA, New York studio
Patrick Hodgkinson, architect – new photos. The architect, who recently died aged 85, is celebrated for his design of the futuristic Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury, completed in 1972, after he had resigned in protest against the contractor-developers, McAlpine.
Tatiana Bilbao, Mexican Architects – key building images, designs – Mexico City design firm news, Mexican architecture studio, arquitectos