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.
Suzhou Library Building
Fully automated high-bay storage building for 7 million books, unique in China. Design competition win by German architecture studio for a new building Xiangcheng Town, north of the historic Suzhou city center.
National Museum of African American History & Culture
Design: Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup, architects – The NMAAHC building opened on September 24. Architect David Adjaye establishes a “strong conceptual resonance with America’s deep and longstanding African heritage”.
Cais das Artes, Paulo Mendes da Rocha Brazil
The building design was a partnership between Pritzker Prize winner Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Metro Arquitetos office. It brings together a theater with capacity for 1,300 spectators, a museum with 3000 sqm of exhibition area, plaza, library, auditorium and café.
Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, London
Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, NHS healthcare building development in Northwest London – design by IBI Group – new UK healthcare building, architecture news
Swiss Thai House: Bang Saray Residence
Located near the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand, this new Thai property design by Architectkidd is formed by the tropical conditions of Southeast Asia as well as the values of its owners, a Swiss family living in the region.
Peckham Arch, South London Public Realm
Campaign to save this structure over a public square in South London. A new 4-6 storey mixed-use commercial space and housing development proposal by Carl Turner Architects aims to replace this structure.
Head Road 1816: Fresnaye Residence Cape Town
Design: SAOTA, Architects. A four bedroom home for a young family: the design had to encapsulate all qualities of luxury open-plan living but still provide a homely environment. The narrow steep site with tough planning restrictions drove the design.
Motelparo Villa in Marche di Fermo, Tuscany
Design: Roy David Studio. This holiday villa in the romantic landscape of great Tuscany is owned by an Israeli family. The Tel Aviv-based architecture & interior design practice preserved the original structural style of the old stable in the redevelopment.
Contemporary Farmhouse Great Bealings, Suffolk
Design: Plan Bureau, architects. Architectural concept to reconstruct two existing barns and design a new barn-style residential building forming a contemporary and at the same time traditional farmhouse area.
Valley House Kiev, Ukraine Property
Design: Plan Bureau, architects. Kostiantyn Kuvika, the principal architect of the project, was inspired by the natural asymmetry of the mountains while creating the Valley House concept.
Syracuse Center of Excellence, NY
Design: Toshiko Mori Architect. This 55,000 sqft research center building on a brownfield site is for a federation of over 200 institutes, corporations and academic programs that collaborate on the research and promotion of environmentally responsible technologies.
Griffith University Learning Commons, Gold Coast
Design: ThomsonAdsett architects: vibrant new teaching and learning spaces to interest and inspire. The building form is crisp, dynamic, colourful and futuristic. Welcoming undercroft spaces form valuable covered learning settings.
IPCW Residence: Indonesia Property
Design: Ivan Priatman Architecture. This courtyard residence for a young family of 4 in Surabaya is on a rectangular 464 sqm corner lot. It is in a new semi-urban residential development where houses are grouped in clusters and share a party wall with each other.
The Cube Birmingham building by Make
The Cube Birmingham, mixed-use building, design by Make Architects – new West Midlands landmark destination project: The Cube Building, England, UK