David McManus

Montrond-les-Bains Leisure Complex

March 3, 2020February 3, 2014 by David McManus

Design: DATA

Mixed-use leisure building, containing a 1,000 sqm casino, a restaurant, a 100-seat conference room, bowling, bar, brewery, night club, several multimedia rooms, offices and workshops, parking for 250 cars.
Composed of six blocks containing the different entities of the program and arranged mainly on a single level, this new complex offers a clear and simple internal route through the large glass-roofs taken between these six volumes.

Delfina Foundation, London Building

April 2, 2020February 3, 2014 by David McManus

Delfina Foundation Expansion, London, England
Design: studio octopi + Shahira Fahmy

Director, Aaron Cezar: “We are thrilled by the transformation which Studio Octopi and Shahira Fahmy envisioned for Delfina Foundation. The expansion creates a home for artistic research, production and
exhibition that will be unparalleled in London.

Coldingham Bay House: New Property

July 29, 2020February 3, 2014 by David McManus

Sutherland Hussey Architects receive planning permission for design of two adjacent apartment villas in the small village of Coldingham Bay to the south east of Edinburgh. Each villa consists of 4 independently accessed apartments.

Artists In Concrete Awards Asia Fest – Pune

March 3, 2020February 3, 2014 by David McManus

Artists In Concrete Awards Asia Fest, Pune, India

6-8 Feb 2014

e-architect editor Adrian Welch will be speaking at this event, alongisde architects such as Ken Yeang, Jo Noero, Odile Decq and Sanjay Puri, plus thinkers such as Juhani Pallasmaa.
Artists in Concrete Awards (AICA) Festival is annual celebration of excellence in architecture, landscape designing and interior designing.

ETHZ D-BSSE Basel Laboratory & Research

January 30, 2021February 3, 2014 by David McManus

Design: Kubota & Bachmann architects. The New ETHZ D-BSSE, laboratory and research building on campus Schällemätteli in Basel, Switzerland which is the Restricted Competition entry project. The new ETH building is conceived as an efficient and flexible architectural device, providing an answer to the multiple aspects shaping its complex environment.

Goodwood Residence Singapore property

August 25, 2023February 2, 2014 by David McManus

Design: WOHA. Set amidst an enclave of black and white houses just off the prime Orchard/Scotts Road area, and against a verdant 20-hectare backdrop of greenery, the 210-unit Goodwood Residence is conceived on a macro scale as a breathing space – a rarity in high density urbanised Singapore – and an extension of the Goodwood Hill tree conservation area that it shares a boundary of 150m with.

Sunlay Design Group Architects Beijing, China

April 13, 2021February 2, 2014 by David McManus

Yellow River Hotel by Sunlay Design Group Architects Beijing

Beijing Sunlay Design Group CO., Ltd founded in 1990, is one of the designing companies which firstly implemented the joint stock system directly under the administration of the Ministry of Construction, and has acquired the top-class designing qualification in 1994.

Graves Tennis and Leisure Centre: NCSEM

August 12, 2022February 2, 2014 by David McManus

Design: B3 Architects. One of the biggest sporting projects to be developed in Sheffield, England, in more than ten years is set to place the city at the heart of the government’s Olympic legacy programme. Plans are being submitted by Sheffield City Trust for a £14m extension and development project incorporating the new National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine at Graves Tennis and Leisure Centre.

Ardeko Office Building, France

March 3, 2020January 31, 2014 by David McManus

Design: be baumschlager eberle

Ardeko won pre-certification “LEED-Platinum”

The internationally active architectural firm be baumschlager eberle, the client Hines and the investor Ivanhoé Cambridge are pleased to receive the pre-certification “LEED Platinum” for the recently opened office building “Ardeko” in Boulogne-Billancourt (F). Tested according to the standards of the U.S. Green Building Council, Ardeko gained the highest rating level. Location, concept, water consumption, energy consumption, protection of the atmosphere, use of building materials and interior design were all evaluated.

Aarau Bus Station Canopy, Switzerland

May 9, 2019January 31, 2014 by David McManus

Design: Vehovar & Jauslin Architektur AG. Radolfzell, January 2014. Recently, the Swiss city of Aarau, a cantonal capital, has gained its own cloud in the shape of an organically formed bus station canopy with a reflective and semi-translucent skin. The roof hovers, so to speak, above the forecourt of the railway station.

John O’Groats Redevelopment Masterplan

December 1, 2020January 31, 2014 by David McManus

The Victorian baronial-style John O’ Groats Hotel had been left to rot for more than 15 years. The depressing scene had gradually drained the life out of the place but still the visitors came, were disappointed, and left. The project was conceived and inspired by GLM’s client Natural Retreats.

Maritime & Bike Terminal – Taiwan Port

August 7, 2020January 30, 2014 by David McManus

Design by KAMJZ Architects in Kinmen Island, Taiwan, aimed at altering the image of what you can expect from a port terminal building proposing a pragmatic hybrid complex where the water transportation system is connected with another strictly locally based way to commute.

Smith Campus Center – Harvard University

May 26, 2024January 30, 2014 by David McManus

Harvard University announced the selection of Hopkins Architects as architects for the new Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center on November 14, 2013, Bruner/Cott selected as Executive Architects. Hopkins was appointed following an international competitive selection process.

Norman Foster AV Monographs, Arquitectura Viva

December 18, 2020January 30, 2014 by David McManus

Publisher: Arquitectura Viva SL, Editor: Luis Fernández-Galiano. Like his admired Buckminster Fuller, Norman Foster thinks of Earth as a spaceship that travels through space taking us on board, and for whose care we are all responsible. If there is a guiding thread for fifty years of work it is precisely the desire to find generic solutions to unique problems, so that innovation is placed at the service of the efficient use of resources and the sustainable occupation of the planet.

Rabothytta Trekker’s Cabin, Norway

January 16, 2020January 29, 2014 by David McManus

Design: Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects. For trekkers to Norway’s glacial north, a warm and airtight welcome at the new “Rabothytta” cabin to welcome adventurers to the magnificent Okstind glacier. Commissioned by the Norwegian Trekking Association the remote ‘Rabothytta’ cabin has been built to precise specifications to withstand the harsh extremes of weather in the region. Designed to echo the natural forms of its landscape, it is part of a network of self-contained cabins and can accommodate groups of up to thirty people on a self-catering basis.

Greenwood Place Community Resource Centre

September 6, 2020January 29, 2014 by David McManus

Community Resource Centre and Centre for Independent Living will provide high quality facilities and support for people with dementia, learning disabilities, mental health problems and autism in the London Borough of Camden.

Reykjavik Industrial Seaside Redevelopment

September 24, 2020January 29, 2014 by David McManus

Design: FELIXX with JVantSpijker. Dutch team wins Icelandic architecture competition: two Rotterdam based offices will design the new redevelopment plan of an industrial seaside area in Reykjavik. The plan consists of 110.000 square meters of mixed use program, including four hundred new dwellings.