RER E Station, Nanterre Building

RER E Station Nanterre Building

Design: KCAP Architects&Planners. Architectural competition for the design of a train station, a 14.000 m² office building and four bridges, one of which is a pedestrian bridge. Completion of the buildings is estimated for 2020

Sant Cugat House, Barcelona Property

Sant Cugat House

Design: Josep Ferrando Architecture. The interior of the concrete house, L-shaped metal profiles secure wooden panels following the topography and the openings of the existing surfaces, organizing the space and conveying a warm atmosphere to the living spaces.

Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute, Québec

Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute, Québec

Design: Rubin & Rotman Architects. This building has the mission of transmitting the traditional Cree culture it draws upon to future generations. The building’s concept turns to the classic architecture of the Cree people’s traditional longhouse, the shaptuan, and to the particular context of the village of Oujé-Bougoumou.

Taigh Sonas, Kippford House: Property

Taigh Sonas Kippford House

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.

Courtyard House Bangalore: Karnataka Home

Courtyard House in Bangalore

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.

747 North Clark, Chicago Residential Building

747 North Clark Chicago

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.

Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016 Winners

Superkilen, Copenhagen

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.

CalaCuncheddi Hotel, Sardinia Wellness Escape

CalaCuncheddi Hotel Sardinia Wellness Escape

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.

Mehr Khaneh Kiev, Ukraine Property

Mehr Khaneh Kiev

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.

Friendship Centre, Gaibandha Building

Friendship Centre Gaibandha Building

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.

Hutong Children’s Library and Art Centre

Hutong Children's Library and Art Centre

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.

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran structure

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge Tehran

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.

Bait Ur Rouf Mosque, Dhaka Building Bangladesh

Bait Ur Rouf Mosque

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.

Prince Street Apartment Building NSW

Prince Street Apartment Building Sydney

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.

Blavatnik School of Government Oxford building

Oxford Architecture Walking Tours - Blavatnik School of Government

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.”