Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 20th Anniversary
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – designed by celebrated architect Frank Gehry – announce a special programme of events to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its opening
Healdsburg 1 California home design
Design: Feldman Architecture. Comprised of two perpendicular bars atop a hill overlooking the village of Healdsburg, this home offers both ample social space ideal for entertaining and the privacy of a rural retreat.
Forest Green Rovers Eco-park Design Competition
Gloucestershire architecture competition news – Zaha Hadid Architects beat Glenn Howells Architects for £100m stadium building at a semi-professional football club in Gloucestershire – previously a shortlist of nine architecture practices from almost fifty entries.
Kings House in Bangalore Property
Design: The Purple Ink Studio. The King’s House occupies a strategic location in the heart of Bangalore city, but the site is a quiet hideout from the hustle-bustle of its surroundings.
Shanghai Tower: Skyscraper China
Design: Gensler ; 2DEFINE Architecture. World’s Second Tallest Building: Chief Architect Marshall Strabala updates on construction and design; how tower was built to withstand 114-mph winds and its ‘green’ building design
The Light at Friends House, Euston Road
Design: John McAslan + Partners. One of the most striking elements of the scheme is the reconfigured internal volume, now named ‘The Light’, topped with a vast, dramatic roof-light, flooding the Meeting House with daylight.
Riverlight Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea
Design: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. These luxury apartments offer outstanding views of the River Thames and London skyline. The six pavilions cover just over two hectares and more than three quarters of the site is dedicated to outdoor space.
Victoria Park House Extension & Renovation
Design: Scenario Architecture. The property is a two-storey semi-detached house post-war construction in the middle of a row of terrace houses. A young couple needed a redesigned ground floor to suit their style of living.
The Artificial Snow Cave Hut, Nepal
Design: Dr Margot Krasojevic architect. The hut offers a snowdrift frame made from weighted carbon fibre mesh, this contoured landscape mimics the surrounding vertiginous precipices and landscapes.
Regal Emporia in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Design: Girimun Architects. This Greater Noida Extension mixed-use development will form a commercial hub. Five levels of retail and a green terraced roof form a shopping and entertainment platform directly connected to 45,000 sqm of office space in two towers.
Triumph Pavilion 2016 Competition London
The brief is to design a temporary, freestanding, transportable and contemporary showcase Pavilion to be installed in the Museum Gardens. The theme for the 2016 Triumph Pavilion is “Energy”, hence the Pavilion will be entitled “Energy Pavilion”.
CyD House in Chaclacayo, Lima
A 470sqm summer home in the Los Cóndores Country Club of Chaclacayo, north of Lima, design by V.Oid, architects. The 2500sqm site has an irregular geometry and steep inclines.
German House Topping-Out Ho Chi Minh City
Design by gmp: The German House building reflects its future function of representing the Federal Republic of Germany in Ho Chi Minh City with its succinct architectural pattern language, in which the focus is on transparency and structure.
Villa Criss Cross Envelope in Ljubljana
Design: Ofis arhitekti. The street of the villa runs perpendicular to the ancient Roman Wall and continues into a pedestrian passageway under the stone pyramid designed by Plecnik (as part his reconstruction project along the wall).
Harvey Nichols Leeds store, Victoria Quarter, Yorkshire
This was the second Harvey Nichols branch in the UK. The main store is in London with further stores now around the world. The site of the shop was formerly occupied by Empire Theatre by architect Frank Matcham, demolished in the 1960s.
Oct Design Museum, Shenzhen Building
Design: Studio Pei-Zhu architects. This building focuses mainly on fashion shows, product design, and conceptual automotive shows. The goal was to create a space that is surreal to the subject matter but also transcendental in surrounding and feeling.
Vaudeville Court in Islington Apartments
Design: Levitt Bernstein, architects. A high density, sustainable, affordable housing project in Islington, based around the concept of ‘productive landscapes.’ The three storey building provides thirteen dwellings.