David McManus 
Design: MVRDV. Before a Korean pop-song became a global success on YouTube for the first time in history, MVRDV was commissioned to redefine a building on Gangnams chic Apgujung Road. The 1980s building was outdated in a street dominated by flagship stores. The transformation, which added an extra level, was completed in just 9 months.
Design: Snøhetta with Clark Nexsen: this new building serves both as NC State’s second main library and the intellectual and social heart of the university’s Centennial Campus. The Hunt Library also houses the Institute for Emerging Issues, a think tank led by former North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt, academic offices, visualization and digital media labs and an auditorium.
INGLASS 2014 Architecture Conference – INGLASS Warsaw 2014, with Patrik Schumacher, ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
Patrik Schumacher is partner at Zaha Hadid Architects. He joined in 1988 and has since been the co-author of many key projects. Together with Zaha Hadid he built up Zaha Hadid Architects to become a 400 strong global architecture brand.
Design: Kenji Architectural Studio. The house is designed for a couple, and is a wooden three stories house that is built at urban narrow site. Around the site is the mixed-use area where small houses, small factories, and small office buildings coexist together without any harmony.
How do you expand an L-shaped Eichler with the challenge of extending a long dark entry? Klopf Architecture’s solution, to design a light filled atrium in the hallway to open up the bedroom expansion with green plants, sky lights and a glass wall. Not to mention the thoughtfulness of a blind door with wood siding similar to the rest of the home.
BDP architects office news – The first raft of projects in China is now starting to complete with two civic projects in Suzhou ; updates for Appleton Academy Bradford, Yorkshire, northern England, UK
The winner of the International Competition for the architectural concept for the new building for National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) at Khodynskoe Pole in Moscow is Heneghan Peng Architects from Ireland.
The other two finalists were Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos from Spain and Russian architectural studio Mel.
Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF). Design for a new headquarters for the country’s largest and oldest financial institution, Ziraat Bank, in a modern, suburban district of Istanbul. The two tower, over 400,000m² Ziraat Bank headquarters will be the centre‐piece of the new Istanbul International Financial Centre (IIFF).
Architects Laura Alvarez and Jarrik Ouburg win second prize at Europan Norway. Ås is a municipality part of the Oslo region whose population will double in the next 25 years. Currently a couple of buildings are located on the site: the house of Norwegian artist Odd Tandberg, the villa Åsheim House and an office building.
Contemporary Architectural Practice in LA, California, USA: “the lives that occupy the work inspire the body of work”. Since 1985, we have enjoyed continued success creating architecture inspired by the people who work, live and play in our environments.
Design: Glavovic Studio Inc and AECOM. Conceived as infrastructure and landscape, the building is the first museum to achieve LEED Gold Certification ranking in Florida and is one of only three children’s museums to be LEED Gold certified in the United States. The building recently won the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Southeast Florida/Caribbean 2013 Vision Awards Project of the Year.
Design: PEÑA architecture. The former Kralings Museum at the Hoflaan has been transformed starting in 2010 into a luxury apartment building. The building contains three apartments with a communal entrance and an elevator that offers access to the upper floors. The Casa K project involves the street level apartment which consists of two layers.
The installation celebrates with a utopia-monument, the social movements that took place in the winter of 2013, in São Paulo. It reactivates one of the primary functions of the architecture, which consists in remembering a crucial historical event.
Design: Santiago Parramón, RTA-Office, Architects. Shanghai Flower Garden Square project identifies itself with space and three-dimensional continuity. There are no elevations, no plans, or sections
Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF). The Sequis Centre Tower in Jakarta, to be Indonesia’s first LEED Platinum building, has started on site. The tower building paves a new direction for Jakarta’s future growth, not only redefining the CBD skyline, but also setting a new standard for sustainability within Indonesia’s burgeoning economy.
Design: NBBJ/HKS. Financial close has been reached on this £335 m project. The new hospital is for the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. Work on site is due to start early in 2014, with completion scheduled for 2017. It will be the largest all single-bed hospital in the country with 646 beds, including a 40-bed Critical Care Unit, 18 operating theatres and one of the largest emergency departments in the Northwest.
Design: Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel and Partners with C+S Architects. The Italian joint-venture between Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel and Partners and C+S Architects, in collaboration with a swiss Engineering team wins the international competition for the requalification of the railway station area of Chiasso in Switzerland.