Summer Season Façade in Cape Town
Design: SAOTA, Architects. 109 Hatfield Street is located in gardens near the vibrant City Bowl in Cape Town, and is surrounded by iconic landmarks like Table Mountain, Lions Head and Parliament.
Architecture of Georgian Homes
Georgian architecture refers to the architectural style of the period from 1720 and 1830. It takes its name from the four British King Georges who ruled at this time. Georgian architecture departed from the English Baroque style of the early 18th century, characterised by bold and opulent curved shapes, strong lines, ornamental design and rich colours.
Two White Pearls Apartments in Koksijde
Design: BURO II & ARCHI+I, architects
These two multi-storey properties respect the scale of the adjacent residential centre. Both buildings optimally integrate in the landscape as a result of their underground garage and the planting of dune grasses.
Reseda Park Pool, Los Angeles
Design: Lehrer Architects. This Public Park lido is located in the heart of the San Fernando Valley where the summer months temperatures often reach 100 degrees. Reseda Park Pool is the only public swimming pool within a five 5 mile radius and has served this community for over half a decade.
Piknic Électronik Montreal HQ: Offices
Design: L. McComber. Creative and inspiring, Piknic Électronik HQ speaks to the values of the burgeoning company through its layout. Fun, relaxed, open-plan, it offers the optimal balance between peaceful and lively areas.
Maggies Centre in Oldham Healthcare
Design: dRMM, architects. Construction starts on the world’s first permanent building built with hardwood cross-laminated timber (CLT). Built within the grounds of The Royal Oldham Hospital, the new Centre will complement the encology clinical care offered by the hospital.
Jameson House Vancouver tower building
Design: Foster + Partners, architects. A 35-storey mixed-use tower in the heart of Vancouver. The building includes the first residential development to be completed by this architecture studio in North America
Hemingzhou Hotspring Resort in Qingyuan
Design: C.DD
The Hemingzhou Hotspring Resort & Spa is located away from the hustle and bustle in cities. The developer’s aim is to build a resort for ecological recuperating and resting the visitor’s mind and body.
Tic Tric Trac in Zürich, Räffelstrasse, Binz District
Design: Baumschlager Eberle. Donald Duck’s nephews, Huey, Dewie and Louie, known in German as Tic, Tric and Trac, have given this 27,800 square metres rental commercial complex its name.
Cafe and Bookshop for Teatro Massimo in Palermo
Design: Adelfio Anello Architetti. Design of the buvette of theatre and the bookshop in the adjoining room overlooking Piazza Verdi, in order to achieve a cafe open to the city, even outside of the show times and a bookshop with merchandising for the theater.
Masdar Design Competition, Abu Dhabi Contest
Design: Laboratory for Visionary Architecture – giant umbrellas, with a design based on the principles of sunflowers, provide moveable shade in the day, store heat, then close and release the heat at night in the plaza of a new eco-city in the United Arab Emirates.
Arup Associates London Architects, UK
Arup Associates news – National Stadium Building in Singapore + New Doha Tennis Stadium at Khalifa Sports Park, Qatar + BSkyB Believe in Better Building Award
New Town Hall Uppsala, Sweden
Henning Larsen Architects, with SLA and Tyréns, win architecture competition for a new 25,000sqm town hall building. A glass-roofed courtyard will be the new, public gathering place of the city, with its transparent architecture.
Altaïr House in Cap-à-l’Aigle, Quebec, Canada
Design: Bourgeois / Lechasseur architects. The name, Altaïr House, refers to the brightest star in the Aquila constellation. Altaïr House is located in Cap-à-l’Aigle, in the region of Charlevoix. Altaïr means “The Flying Eagle.” The building appears discrete from the street, but unfolds toward the river away from the street, as though ready to take flight.
Casa Das Preguicosas Coimbra
Architects: Estudio Branco Delrio Arquitectos. The Casa Das Preguicosas is located in the outskirts of Coimbra, a single family homes area. The site currently enjoys far stretching views
Treehouse Suite at Playa Viva Hotel
Design: Deture Culsign, Architecture+Interiors. Take a walk on the one-mile beach of this 12-key 200 acre eco-resort, and you might see an elliptical shaped bamboo wrapped platform balanced between the canopy of palms above and the green shrubbery below.
Teatre La Massa, Vilassar de Dalt, Catalunya
Design: Rafael Guastavino Moreno
This impressive Catalan building has circular structure with a rectangular stage area. The distinguishing feature of the building is the 17-m diameter Catalan vault over the main hall. The shallow dome’s structure is a double layer of ceramic tiles.