The Society of Architect Artists has been reformed: the first exhibition of ‘The Society of Architects in Architecture’ (to include a wider range of architectural professionals), will have work by former Fellows of the SAA, and some new members
Design: dRMM, architects – London: Shortlisted for RIBA Stirling Prize 2016. Trafalgar Place is the critical first phase in the regeneration of the former Heygate Estate, Elephant & Castle; a tenure-blind scheme of 235 homes integrated within the historic fabric of the predominantly 19th century neighbourhood.
Architect AR-MA’s pavilion Trifolium (2014), designed and built for the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation’s (SCAF) annual competition Fugitive Structures, used advanced computer design technologies to complete a research-oriented brief.
Architectural competition open internationally to architects, artists, designers and landscape architects to submit concepts for temporary artwork installations on beaches in Toronto: lifeguard stations serve as the armature for the designs.
Design: Heatherwick Studio, Architects with GWP, Architects. The master plan proposed the creation of two new glasshouses to grow specimens of the 10 exotic plant species used in the Bombay Sapphire distillation process.
Design: Neuman Hayner Architects. Two cubes separated by a passage combine into an “L” shaped house. The front cube, is double height space, contains the public areas: entrance, living room, kitchen, dining room (all on the ground floor) and a study on the first floor
Design: AECOM, Architects. Largest development project in the history of British zoos wins Award For Best Large Project Presented By The Institution Of Structural Engineers – “by far the most complex loads to deal with were those resulting from the Orangutans”.
Danish architecture photos – new architectural images from recent visit to Denmark: Esrum Kloster & Møllegård, Sjælland: the former Cistercian monastery is now used as a museum and a school for the study of nature and the environment.
Design: Strachan Group Architects. On a tight, compact urban site, close to Takapuna Beach in Auckland, New Zealand, the three- stepped gables of these black ‘boatsheds’ appropriately reference boating and beach life.
Selldorf Architects, Atlas Capital Group, Square Mile Capital and CORE have now launched the sales of 42 Crosby, a 50,000 sq ft condominium situated in the centre of Manhattan’s SoHo district.
Design: Stephenson Design Collective. A small home in the residential neighborhood of Ballard in Seattle, WA was carefully dismantled by hand to salvage every piece of material to create the Lark House. A covered patio off of the living room doubles interior space when opened.
Design: COBE, architects – new photos. Forfatterhuset Kindergarten, a new daycare center building in Nørrebro with curved corners, lush roof gardens and a contextual brick facade that gives the building a warm modern feel.
Bernard Tschumi. Architecture: Concept and Notation, the first European retrospective exhibition of the work of architect, educator, and theorist Bernard Tschumi, shown at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, Switzerland
Design: David Rockwell, Architect – Centre of Civil and Human Rights is a new purpose built museum in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, that tells the parallel stories of both the Civil Rights movement in the USA and also the global story of the Human Rights.
Design: BIG, architects. One of the most interesting new buildings in Denmark, a fascinating project in a key Danish cultural site. Leaving the historic dock walls untouched, the architects have placed the galleries below ground in a continuous loop around the dry dock walls – making the dock the centerpiece of the exhibition.
Design: Tziallas Omeara Architecture Studio. The aim for this project was to design an extension for a heritage listed Bowral cottage – one which was discreet and distinct, but also allow the original cottage to appear unchanged from the street.
