Design: PLC Architects. Set in the Solent, a historically important strait separating the Isle of Wight from the Great Britain mainland, Spitbank Fort is a Victorian sea fort built on a circular base 50m in diameter
Design: Behnisch Architekten. Groundbreaking of the new building for the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research: ISREC will bring together under one roof 400 researchers, scientists, doctors and clinicians.
Visit five significant houses designed by Philip Johnson in New Canaan, CT, plus evenings with Toshiko Mori, Nicholas Fox Weber, architect Isay Weinfeld and architecture critic Paul Goldberger
Design: Magén Arquitectos. It’s been nearly a century since Le Corbusier, published his “Theory of the roof-garden,” seed of the fifth of his five points for a new architecture, which talks about the use of the terrace.
Design: Nic Owen Architects. As the answer to the site, environment and client’s requirements the pod extension is a true expression of ‘form following function’. A modern structure is not limited with a period (Victorian) architectural language but is free to respond justly to the brief, site and restraints.
Design: The Buchan Group / CallisonRTKL, architects. The first stage of Chadstone’s $660 m redevelopment unveiled. A striking 7000 sqm grid shell roof presents a milestone in structural design innovation as it arches 30m over the atrium.
Design by Bercy Chen Studio Architects – this Texas house was built for two families in Austin and therefore is split into two living areas. The TX home consists of two pavilions connected by a glass hallway.
YOU, Lot YA, Paris design by STUDIONINEDOTS architects. Within a dense urban fabric the architects created a robust bank building, with subtle recesses and a striking facade that interplays rhythms of bronze-coloured blades; blades that block sunlight while retaining views of the Seine.
The story of Noah’s Ark was the competition concept set forth by the Jewish Museum Berlin by US architects Olson Kundig. The flood narrative is deeply rooted in Abrahamic cultures
Design: Grzywinski+Pons. A 100 room hotel in west London, a hybridization of a boutique hotel offering and an aparthotel — two programs that generally are mutually exclusive. The architects’ brief was to bring a design-led bespoke hospitality feel to a product that is traditionally anything but.
Design: COBE, architects. Some of Copenhagen Harbour’s old industrial buildings are preserved in the new Nordhavnen neighborhood, including the tallest silo now being transformed into housing and public functions.
Design: Jakub Szczęsny architects. A triangular, forested plot in one of pre-war garden cities around Warsaw. The house had to retain existing trees by fitting around them.
The Key ApartHotel’s distinctive interior designed by GM Architects offers a new take on luxury accommodation in the heart of one of Beirut’s most fashionable neighborhoods in the cultural sector of the city.
Architects: Grimshaw. The Laboratory at Dulwich College is a state-of-the-art science building situated in the centre of the school’s historic campus in south London. The £14 million Grimshaw-designed scheme has officially been opened and is the first completed school project in the practice’s education portfolio.
Design: Architecture Architecture. Drawing near to the doorway of Kite House, the visitor is welcomed by pockets of shade nestled among sheltering brick walls. A vast pivot window and a large pivot door throw themselves wide open, exposing the full throat of the house to the garden.
Design: MMX architecten with Jord den Hollander. A bold, zany architectural project – improving the look of a Dutch hotelboat to make it fit in with the dynamics and creativity of the wharf
Design: Hawkins\Brown, Architects
An innovative 5,300sqm building combines a new syllabus and a new way of teaching for 14-19 years olds to inspire its pupils and prepare them for the real world.