Design: Hodder + Partners, Architects
Winner of Manchester Architects Awards Building of the Year. The new buildings accommodate 36 study bedrooms, rooms for 3 wardens, 2 common rooms, and an art studio. The residential pavilions are constructed of oak-clad CLT.
The Scottish Civic Trust is delighted to announce the appointment of Colin McLean as its new Chair. Colin was Head of the Heritage Lottery Fund in Scotland for 16 years, and before that Director of the Scottish Mining Museum.
The Squish Studio design by Saunders Architecture is just outside the small town of Tilting on the eastern end of Fogo Island, Newfoundland. Tilting is known for its strong Irish culture and its recent designation by Parks Canada as a National Cultural Landscape District of Canada.
The Structural Awards 2016 shortlist news: celebrating amazing engineering
These awards, which recognise outstanding achievement by structural engineers from all over the world, are organised each year by The Institution of Structural Engineers.
Design: Alts Design Office, Architects. You will enjoy your time in this cozy house with different situations. It could be change your ordinary days to special one.
Architecture: Escobar Design by Lemay. Eschewing a longstanding brand convention, interior designer Andres Escobar and his team have created a new design platform for a Holiday Inn in Downtown Brooklyn at 300 Schermerhorn Street.
Design: +tongtong, Architects. Multi-disciplinary studio +tongtong recently completed a boutique retail space for Black Toe Running, a new high-end running store situated in downtown Toronto.
Design: Keppie. Appointment as architects on the new Hospital and Healthcare Facilities in Orkney. The project is being constructed by Robertson Construction Group with AECOM and TUV SUD making up the rest of the successful team.
The Getty Foundation award $1.3m in architectural conservation grants for exemplary 20th century buildings as part of its Keeping It Modern initiative: nine projects in nine countries.
Design: Sanjay Puri Architects. Situated on an undulating site in the deserts of Ras, Rajasthan, India, Studios 18 apartments are a part of an entire layout spread over 36 acres.
A strong partnership between school, architects and construction team has created a light, airy new secondary school in Bristol, highly valued by both students and staff, and an inspiring example for other schools to be built under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.
Llandegfedd Visitor and Watersports Centre Building wins this year’s National Eisteddfod of Wales’ Gold Medal for Architecture, supported by the Design Commission for Wales and Royal Society of Architects in Wales.
RMJM Architects news: RMJM Arta Tehran has been appointed by the Cultural Institute of Bonyad Museum as architectural consultant for the Iran Historical Car Museum.
Pacific Islands developments – best new buildings & architects – Pacific Islands architecture information, projects: index page for architectural designs
Design: Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai, India. MPavilion 2016 will be 12m high, made of bamboo with a roof encased in earth representing the Australian landscape. Adorned by an elaborate tower similar to a ‘tazia’ used in Indian ceremonies.
Renewal Design: Ollier Smurthwaite / SixTwo Architects. The Toastrack proposal is to refurbish and re-use the post-war Grade II listed Hollings Park Campus buildings. The unusual Brutalist building was designed by the city architect and completed in 1960.
Getty Foundation Keeping It Modern 2016 Architectural Conservation Grants – the nine buildings in more detail…including Casa de Vidro (pictured) by Lina Bo Bardi, a leading practitioner of the modern movement, designing many of the country’s most iconic buildings.