Design: SADAR+VUGA, architects with student design team. Building interior renovation designed at a student workshop at Ljubljana’s Faculty of Architecture. The interactive space project used a complex programmatic and spatial reconstruction.
Design: Canny Architecture. Family home custom designed by CA Architecture in leafy suburb: this luxurious residence has 3 bedrooms with ensuite, a study, powder room, sitting room, basement cellar and generous alfresco area.
Design: G.Natkevičius and Partners, architects. The client bought a site where an old yellow brick lodge stood. Cleaning off the plaster revealed ancient bricks. Because of the historical value of this house it was preserved by wrapping it with an outer glass shape.
Design: Weston Williamson architects. Chapter Lewisham, a distinctive ‘boutique’ concept of student accommodation, part of Lewisham Council’s town centre regeneration plan, opened. Using the latest technologies in prefabricated module building it is one of the largest and most creative modern student accommodations.
Design: MoNi Studio, Architects. The living room in such small flat is only area to become a flexible function room. And an Interactive sliding door is only solution to prevent interuption form other side of living room but without sacrificing the quality of the dinning area. The 4 panels of sliding door consist of 20 shutter moudule.
Annual awards for the best research in the fields of architecture and the built environment. 75 submissions from 14 countries, including 22 from architecture practices. The 4 themes: Cities and Community ; Design and Technical ; History and Theory ; Learning from Projects
Design: Mobile Office Architects – Luxury Santa Ynez Mountains house by the Pacific: raw corten steel and concrete external materials form a building that blends with the landscape and respond to threats from wildfire and termites.
Design: Richard Murphy Architects. Major transformation of an existing building: a new first floor space contains an 80 seat cafe, with panoramic views taking in the 1st tee of the world-famous Old Course, plus a new outdoor dining terrace.
Architects: Erdil Construction. The main ambition with the Ma Vie La Villa was to make as much use of the site as possible promoting the use of a variety of outdoor spaces that can be used in most weather conditions.
Design: Chapman Taylor, architects. This 480,000 sqm commercial complex comprises a 270,000 sqm shopping centre, two 245m-high office, hotel and apartment towers above a 4-storey podium. The architectural façade designed uses a neoclassical approach.
More photos – a group of students from architecture, design and art universities spent 10 days in a summer workshop. They built 3 floating structures: a shelter, a fireplace and a sauna as a response to the changing environment of the area.
Design: Benoy, Architects. Future mixed-use development within the major Lujiazui Harbour City area. The 250,000 sqm of former shipyard land since the 1800s to be redeveloped into a major destination for the city.
Design: Gus Wüstemann Architects. A Spanish atrium house, designed for outdoor enjoyment every day of the year. This home for a family with children is in a private housing development next to a golf course. The concept focused on year-round outdoor living.
Design: Barkow Leibinger architects. New 3000sqm headquarters building with offices and exhibition areas. Gleaming laser-cut stainless steel fins cover the façades in a soft gradient.
The Royal Institute of British Architects announce Níall McLaughlin as winner of the 2016 RIBA Charles Jencks Award. It is given to an individual or practice that has made a major contribution internationally to practice and theory of architecture.
Utøya ‘Memory Wound’ memorial design by Jonas Dahlberg abandoned? Norwegian government offers to replace controversial Utøya memorial to appease local residents. The memorial to commemorate the massacre on the island in 2011 has proved divisive
Photos of emerging dockland architecture in Copenhagen: interesting new residential buildings along Indiakaj and Dampfærgevej.