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The city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands likes to think of itself as the forerunner of daring architecture. Yet recently the city has shied away from the design of a new bridge in the harbour, for being too innovative.
The existing site is listed as industrial historical area with buildings of an old butchery complex, which included the water-tower and old butcher hall. Demand of National heritage was to rebuild the tower as it was in original.
Amsterdam, Venice, Christianshavn – it is not hard to identify the sources of inspiration for the Sluseholmen development. Water is the vital element in the canal community now taking shape in the area’s former industrial and harbour areas.
University Gardens comprises the second and third phase of the Housing Snake located in Ørestad North, which will writhe its way through all five of the area’s construction zones
Poplar Cottage is a small house on The Green in Walberswick built in the early 1920s. Over the past eighty years a number of piecemeal extensions had resulted in a peculiar internal organisation that cut the house off from its garden
Croydon Regeneration: Third City Vision, building proposals for south London design by Will Alsop architect: major design competition, development news
Working with the Local Authority, M+O Architects conducted the masterplanning for a series of urban blocks with communal gardens at the centre of the overall plan.
The University of Bedfordshire has revealed its plans for a landmark new student centre as part of the first phase of a £70m masterplan to regenerate the university’s campus in the centre of Luton.
Slovenian Commercial Property Development Proposal – design by Groleger Arhitekti: the new office building incorporates public/commercial program in the ground floor, offices in the upper floors and parking underground.
Park Royal in London. Proposals have been made to revitalise Park Royal, Europe’s largest industrial estate, in an innovative new public realm strategy put forward by award-winning practice 5th Studio.
Broekbakema has designed a new pharmaceutical factory for Schering-Plough in Oss (formerly Organon). Although it has already been completed and accepted, this production building is not yet operational.
Rodin Museum Brasil: new building in Salvador, Bahia architecture, South America – design by Brasil Arquitetura, Architects – Rodin Museum, Bahia building
Melbourne’s Silk Road – a venue designed to bring to life a luxurious vision. The brief was to create the jewel in the crown in Zampelis’s Portfolio of hospitality establishments
The Spanish architecture firm A-cero, directed by Joaquin Torres, has built a new house in the Madrid outskirts that synthesizes the evolution of the studio’s signature design language and its technical experimentation over the last years.