Design: Beckmann-N’Thépé (B/NT), architects. The building emphasises generous views, planted terraces and balconies for all apartments, plus participation in the first European residential home offering facilities specifically designed for people living with “Locked-in Syndrome”.
Design: BCVA with Domus architects, Kragh&Berglund and MOE
Brøndby Strand Parkerne is the largest housing schemes realised within the Post-war expansion of Copenhagen known as ”The Finger Plan”. Constructed in 1969-73 with a late modernism approach using the newest prefabrication techniques.
Architects: Rolf Bruggink in collaboration with Niek Wagemans. What is truly individual about this home is that all the materials used to carry out this conversion originated from a demolished office building that was situated next to the coach house.
Architects: Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture – KKA. Can Heden continue to be a open space dominated by connecting people and sport, and at the same time make preconditions for densifying and development of the city?
Design: P+0 architecture. A house for people with dogs requires a large amount of open space; more so, when its inhabitants are big fans of plants and outdoor activity.
Design: MRTN Architects. Situated in a new development less than an hour from Auckland this new house was one of the first built on a flat site that has been split up to create well sized semi-suburban semi-coastal sections on what was once rural land.
Design: Sheppard Robson, Architects. The confident and rigorous architectural language is a marker of the appetite for the campus’s future whilst equipped with state-of-the art laboratory facilities for its present.
“Power” research inititative at the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University: dynamics of climate change bind together innumerable, often incompatible categories, things, and processes.
Design: KZ Architecture – A large program that would yield a massive home on a limited and restricted site. The design strategy involved deconstructing the volume into pavilions that could generate a dialogue between built form and landscape and create intimate connections between the golf course and the living spaces.
Design: Main Office. The restaurant, positioned in an area historically accepted as the home of the citysʼ labour movement, is hosted in a building going through a conversion – in total 4000 sqm being restored and adapted to new business/ activities.
Design: RLP Rüdiger Lainer + Partner. The HoHo Wien is at this point the tallest timber skyscraper with 24 floors in the world under construction. Completion of this RLP-building is expected in 2018.
Design: LAVA with A24, White Void, Priedemann and Transsolar
Winning architecture competition entry for an energy park and energy storage building in Heidelberg, Germany for the Stadtwerke Heidelberg, will commence construction in 2017.
JVA, Jarmund/Vigsnæs Arkitekter, Norway architects office – info + images from this Oslo design studio, Norwegian buildings projects – JVA Norway, buildings photos
The Marina City towers, 1959-67, are two of the most recognisable structures in America’s ‘windy city’. Architect Bertrand Goldberg’s distinctive-looking high-rise buildings, part of a larger Marina City complex, are icons of Modern architecture.
Design: +tongtong, architects. Reinventing the beauty salon experience: this project is equal parts café, retail boutique, beauty salon and bar, all located under one roof in downtown Toronto.
Design: Taller David Dana Arquitectura. The creative process for this rooftop project experienced multiple design facets in many different levels. The evolution from Schematic Design to Construction Documents was built based on a deductive process of clever decision making.
Design: KAMJZ, architects
In order to stimulate the currently based on export and industry Chinese economy the new national plan for the years 2014-2020 proposes increasing the factor of urbanisation from the current 54 to 60 percent in the coming years.