Design: Simon Winstanley Architects. This house is sited in a rectangular natural hillside plot accessed off the main road into Kippford on the Solway Coast. Principal views range between the south-west and north-east enjoying a spectacular landscape setting of the River Urr valley and hills beyond.
Design: The Purple Ink Studio, Architects. Taking the courtyard as a focal point, the entire architecture and the landscape concept revolved around using the feature as a climate-responsive design advantage.
Design: Ranquist Development Group. A residential building on a 40’ x 100’ inner-city lot in the upper-scale River North neighborhood. Clean lines and a palette of industrial materials follow the modernist roots of Chicago’s architectural heritage.
Six winning architectural projects for the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, selected by the Master Jury from amongst 348 projects, competing for US$ 1 million in prize money. Info + images for the winning buildings and architects.
Interior Design: Molteni&Co. A few meters away from the beach Li Cuncheddi, on the granitic headland of Capo Ceraso in Northern Sardinia, CalaCuncheddi 4 Stars Superior Hotel reopens its doors to the public completely renewed.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, an Aga Khan Award for Architecture Winner in 2016 – new building photos.
Studio Persian Primavera & Keivani Architects considered two essential factors to develop the concept of this interior design: firstly, the client’s interests in the Persian civilization, culture, and values, namely the metaphors of Mithraism and sun; secondly, the artistic character of the client.
Architect: Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA. A community centre which makes a virtue of an area susceptible to flooding in rural Bangladesh. Offices, a library, meeting rooms, and prayer and tea rooms are included in pavilion-like buildings surrounded by courts and pools.
Architect: ZAO / standardarchitecture / Zhang Ke. A small-scale architecture project that enriches bonds amongst communities and revives Hutong life. The courtyard is about 300-400 years old and once housed a temple building.
Architect: Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian, Alireza Behzadi. Infrastructure connecting two parks across a highway. A 270m-long curved pedestrian bridge, a complex steel structure featuring a dynamic 3D truss with two continuous deck levels that sits on three tree shape columns.
Architect: Marina Tabassum. A refuge for spirituality in urban Dhaka, selected for its beautiful use of natural light. Ventilation and the play of light make this neighbourhood mosque a refuge for spirituality. After a difficult life and the loss of her husband and near relatives, the client donated a part of her land for a mosque to be built. A temporary structure was erected.
Gort Scott Architects and developer Pocket Living have been given planning permission to create 45 new ‘Pocket’ apartments in a disused office building in the centre of Walthamstow.
Design: Candalepas Associates, architects. The site is one which is repeatedly affected by the persistent salt-mist of a tidal beach. The horizontality of the plan follows the natural strata and beds the project into its natural dunes.
Design: Herzog & de Meuron, Architects. The architects describe their building thus, a “proposal of a series of shifted discs, pure geometric circles, is developed from the parameters of the site and plot boundaries. The shifting in floors creates overhangs and covered volumes and reflects the principles of the masterplan massing.”
Design: FaulknerBrowns Architects. This elegant and efficient sports centre building maximises available space on a tightly constrained site. The design solution links two simple geometric volumes – sports hall and pool block – with a spine of accommodation and circulation.
Design: Swatt | Miers Architects – The Sinbad Creek House project started when the owners—a couple, newly retired from the biotech field and avid horseback riders—decided they wanted to be able to spend more time enjoying the outdoors.
Nathalie Weadick, architectural curator & director of the Irish Architecture Foundation to be conferred with an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects in recognition of “the enormous contribution (she has) made to architecture.”