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In reaction to US President-elect Barack Obama’s Sunday’s declaration on CBS ’60 minutes’ on 16.11.2008 (his first sit-down interview since winning the November 4 presidential election) where he has confirmed his intention to close Guantanamo’s Detention Center.
David Chipperfield Architects’ gallery building Am Kupfergraben 10 in Berlin has received the first prize in the ‘office and commercial buildings’ category of the Fritz Höger Prize 2008.
Clay Fields Suffolk housing design by Riches Hawley Mikhail Architects – 26 affordable homes for local people, new houses, Elmswell building, England
Sheppard Robson has won a competition to design the new 9,000m² Open Academy in Norwich – the first in Norfolk. The bidding team, led by Kier Education, won the bid to transform the existing 1960’s, Heartsease High School through the Academies Framework.
Building surface of 5.500 square meters, on the plot of a gross area of 60.000 m for accommodating the companies tractors and machinery exhibition zone and being used as training and marketing centre for all Spanish dealers.
Set atop a magnificent site on the Bellarine Peninsula, Contour house anchors itself into the landscape with a 5.5 meter high, 55m long folding concrete wall. This gesture is both protective and revealing, simultaneously creating an internal courtyard.
Priory Park in St. Neots, Cambridgeshire has become home to a new publicly-funded creative workspace building designed by 5th Studio architects. The project will be the home of Creative Exchange, a new set of shared workspaces aimed at nurturing the West Cambridgeshire’s creative workers and innovators.
Project for the renovation of the Public Park and the new Children’s Centre next to the Corviale Housing in the outskirts of Rome, designed by LAND Srl and StudioUAP.
Warburton property design by BKK Architects, Melbourne: on an elevated site set amongst native bushland with rolling hills to the north, The Wall withholds the view upon approach, presenting a mute block wall embedded into the site.
Villa con piscina, Como house, contemporary Italian residence design by Marco Castelletti Architect – modern property ion North Italy: info & photos
Erick van Egeraat has completed the Municipal Theatre of Haarlem in the Netherlands. After five years of careful renovation and extension the theatre was officially opened by Princess Máxima of the Netherlands in late September.
Planning permission has been granted for The College of West Anglia’s high-profile £92 million new campus close to King’s Lynn town centre, designed by leading education sector specialist Bond Bryan Architects
This new headquarters building for Caja Madrid – the largest bank in Spain – continues investigations into the flexible workplace that can be traced through a family of recent office towers, most notably for Swiss Re and Commerzbank.
The University of Northampton has launched a design competition for architects to plan future developments at its 14.5 acre Avenue Campus on St. George’s Avenue in Northampton.