Hall McKnight architects news – planning permission won for project at 152–158 Strand: six buildings along the south side of the famous street adjacent to St Mary–Le–Strand Church at Kings College’s Strand campus in London.
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Designed by Miami-based firm Rene Gonzalez Architects (RGA), the Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation building will serve as the permanent home for the Foundation’s growing art collection
De Rotterdam, The Netherlands Design: OMA. This mixed-use, 160,000sqm slab-tower conceived as a ‘vertical city’ on the River Maas, is complete. The building is named after one of the original ships on the Holland America Line, which until the late 1970s transported thousands of emigrating for New York from the adjacent Wilhelmina Pier.
BFDO Architects’ clients had been living in their apartment for over a decade and decided it was time to renovate. Included in the project was a plan to convert a basement-level storage unit.
Chris Hildrey of Hildrey Studio wins RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2018 for a project which reconnects homeless people with local support services using location data.
RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards 2018 winners – World’s best architecture student projects revealed: The RIBA Silver Medal awarded to Sonia Magdziarz (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL).
The Art, Architecture & Design Museum, UC Santa Barbara, announce appointment of Dr. Silvia Perea as curator of the Art and Design Collection. She is currently a curator at the Baker Museum, Naples, Florida.
Affleck de la Riva’s design and the construction of Rigaud City Hall was recently completed. Rigaud City Hall is a new civic administration facility for a small Quebec community fifty kilometres west of Montreal.
Allegoria Mosca building design by Kleinewelt Architekte, a mixed-used development combining cultural and social care functions styled after Italian palazzos in the central Moscow.
Eco360 Energy Positive Villa in Arsuf, Israel, design by Geotectura Studio Architects: a sustainable home with excellent indoor air and light quality, reflecting the beautiful surroundings.
With Socio-Technical City, UNStudio – in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of experts – has created a new urban vision for the ‘Central Innovation District’ (CID) test site in The Hague.
Pálás Cinema Galway building, western Ireland, design by dePaor: cast in situ, it is a series of transfer slabs on discontinuous walls making a building of staircases, extruding the plot boundaries upwards.
Tour Montparnasse Paris by Studio Gang Architects, Chicago – WAF Glass Future Prize Winner: for this new skyscraper building design in the capital city of France