Modular Living Unit: Paulo Mendez Da Rocha
Design: Paulo Mendes da Rocha + METRO Architects. Modular system of panels and metallic structure that allows wide variety of living units arrangements
Sea Glass House on the Isle of Wight
Architect: The Manser Practice. Brief for a weekend and holiday house, a compact 1960’s bungalow, to be enlarged, giving more living accommodation and enhancing the views of the sea, plus aintaining the site’s private/secret nature.
Maggie’s Oxford Cancer Caring Centre
Design: Wilkinson Eyre, architects. Maggie’s, the charity that provides free practical, emotional and social support for people with cancer and their family and friends, has celebrated the opening of its new purpose built Centre in the grounds of The Churchill Hospital, Oxford.
Inkwell at 520 West 45th Street, Hell’s Kitchen
Hell’s Kitchen condominium building with 18 Residences from $1.75 to $2.95m, design by AvroKO. Gotham, a New York City-based real estate development firm, launche sales for its newest residential project, a schoolhouse-to-condominium conversion located.
Coastlands House in Big Sur, California
Design: Carver + Schicketanz, architects – The 5,600 sqft Big Sur residence lies between a grove of mature oak trees, offering sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean. This sustainable luxurious home provides maximum privacy and premium comfort for its residents.
UYU Ice Cream Shop in Vancouver
Design: Leckie Studio Architecture + Design. Inspired by crystalline patterns found in frost, an irregular motif is developed for the water jet cut metal wall and ceiling panels. This pattern also references UYU’s logo and identity, playfully suggesting the store’s product: ice cream.
Kafe Magasinet in Gothenburg
Design: Main Office. Kafé Magasinet has found it’s home in a building from 1892 formerly used as auction house. The cafe is connecting two inner yards, creating a meeting hub in the new urban flow created by the yards.
215 Chrystie Street New York
A new hotel and residential building scheduled to open in downtown Manhattan for Ian Schrager. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron, the 28-story building will house a 370-room hotel
Sunset Parklet, San Francisco Streetscape
Design: INTERSTICE Architects. Public amenity designed for two local community-oriented businesses in the Outer Sunset district on the Judah light-rail transit line. The architects took on the controversial 50 ft long site as a pro-bono project.
Connect Parkville House Melbourne
Design: Steffen Welsch Architects. In Connect Parkville we pursue the idea of “stitching together” urban fabric with “quiet architecture”, informed by Austrian architect Hermann Czech’s “architecture as background”.
Valley Villa Vilnius: Lithuania Eco-Friendly House
Architectural firm Arches has recently created a modern, eco-friendly house within close proximity to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania and the country’s largest city.
China Philharmonic Hall Beijing Building: MAD
Design: MAD architects. This Chinese concert hall building was designed in collaboration with renowned acoustic expert Yasuhisa Toyota, and will be the orchestra’s first permanent residency.
Addiriyah Contemporary Art Center, KSA
Design: Schiattarella Associati, Architects. Two international awards for Addiriyah Contemporary Art Center project in Saudi Arabia: ‘Concept Winner’ at this year’s ICONIC AWARDS and Honorable Mention at the American Architecture Prize 2016.
Sackett Union in Brooklyn, New York
Design: Rogers Partners Architects+Urban Designers. As one of the first new residential buildings in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood, Alchemy Properties Inc.’s development was designed to complement the fabric of the historic neighborhood.
Biourban Acupuncture Book by Marco Casagrande
Author: Marco Casagrande, architect
Urban Acupuncture is a biourban theory, which combines sociology and urban design with the traditional Chinese medical theory of acupuncture.
Tincan Soho Restaurant, London
Design: AL_A, Architects. While designing a new cultural centre in Lisbon, the architects discovered a former fishing tackle shop, which was transformed into a tiny, vibrant restaurant serving only tinned seafood.
60s Modern House on Gold Coast
Design: Jamison Architects. ‘60s Modern’ is a renovation project. It is the upper unit of an original early 80’s duplex building, pinned to a steep hillside site, it overlooks the Gold Coast skyline and Pacific Ocean. The design encompasses the client’s love for 60’s style, decor and art.