The Portuguese city of Abrantes and the national Association of Architects launch the International design competition “Castelo de Abrantes”. The architecture competition aims to qualify and enrich the Abrantes Castle surroundings.
Design: OBR Paolo Brescia / Tommaso Principi / Michel Desvigne Paysagiste. First prize in the international competition to design the new Central Park in Prato, Italy. The jury, chaired by Bernard Tschumi, selected the winner among 10 finalists, that all expressed new ideas on the contemporary city and on its relationship with the landscape.
Design: Lehrer Architects: a dull, incoherent interior is refurbished into a vivid, naturally lit work milieu that respects the bones of an existing mid-century building, embedding it in the city by exposing views to Downtown Los Angeles to the east and Hollywood Hills to the west.
MVRDV with Zhubo Architecture Design win the architectural competition for the Xili Sports and Cultural Centre: the project seeks to transform the lives of people through offering a more humanistic model for sports and culture.
Design: Stelle Lomont Rouhani Architects. This guest house structure is part a two-phase project on an ocean front site. The existing main house was originally conceived in the 1970s, with a later addition in the 1980s.
Design: Prototype Design Lab, architects. This property is formed from three slipping volumes of varying heights and lengths, staggered to respond to site and programmatic conditions. Each one is clad with a different material to hint at its interior function.
Design: Affiniti Architects & Marc Thee. In Lake Nona Medical City – a global destination for health care innovation in Orlando – a new era is unfolding with the GuideWell Innovation Center. The Innovation Center is the latest addition to Lake Nona Medical City, a 650-acre life sciences campus, built by Tavistock Development Company.
Design: Mackay + Partners, architects. The new Motel One building in the historic Minories neighbourhood of the City of London features a ground-breaking illuminated façade made from DuPont Corian high-tech surface.
Warsaw is a city under a considerable pressure for change. Stark political system change and enormous economic uplift have left several public spaces and relevant buildings to the will of speculative developers.
Design: Alexander Brenner Architekten. A home for life, behind sheltering walls and with great vastness towards the neighboring scenery – a generation villa „from which one never needs to move out again“, as the residents put it.
Design: Sane Architecture
Cities, configurations and architectural structures have been considered fixed systems, in equilibrium in which the different parts were meant to be coordinated in linking macrostructures – or frameworks according to the rational classical model.
Design: AMA, Architects. Fucina Restaurant features a unique, mind blowing curvacious brick ceiling, entirely handmade and taking its inspiration from the interiors of traditional Italian pizza ovens.
Design: TADA. This house sits in a corner of a vast lot in the heart of Bridgehampton, New York. Evocative of an old farmhouse with it’s elementary shape and repeated openings, also shares it’s DNA and it’s open space plan with that of a New York attic.
Design: Mauro Lacio Arquitetura. This house is located in São Paulo, Brazil. The challenges to its design were connected to a 3 meters ground depression between the extremes of the lot. This enabled the communication among the house and the horizon.
Design: schmidt hammer lassen architects: The 1,500 sqm library building provides the Highlands’ community with a distinctive landmark which underlines that this new creative centre for learning is open and accessible
Design: Bureau Architecture Méditerranée. Architecture integrated into its surroundings – respecting urban fabric and existing historic buildings. The building has a discreet character through use of the same type of stone, preservation of existing buildings and respect for alignments.
Design: MIMA Housing. A sharp white volume set in Alentejo’s beautiful landscape. This 36 sqm summer house represents one of the multiple schemes possible to be built from the baseMIMA house, an aggregation of 3.5 of the base units.