Design: Blaze Makoid Architecture, Architects. The homeowners wanted to see the water as they drove up to the house: a glass cube at the center of the home forms the living room and affords views from the driveway straight through to the bay.
This is Frank Lloyd Wright by Ian Volner and Michael Kirkham and published by Laurence King in August 2016 brings the projects and persona of this world-famous architect into vivid focus through witty narrative and specially commissioned contemporary illustrations.
Design: LAB 100, architects. Being the first commercial boxing gym in the region, The Burrow introduces a modern combination of boxing exercises to Kuwait. The gym is composed of a welcoming lobby, semi-private workout halls, a boxing arena and an elevated cross fit area.
Design: Ideograf Architectural Studio. Situated in a unique space which is the Old Town in Gdańsk, the Almond Hotel is the construction of the total area of 7500 sqm. It joins the functions of a hotel, restaurant, and a spa & wellness complex
Design: Buchan Group Architects. Work has begun on a $74 m development masterplan for the Shellharbour Workers Club that will not only transform the long-standing clubhouse, but also deliver an extensive range of new community facilities.
Joel’s Column Vol. IV, Number 1: President Obama announces architects to design his Presidential Library in Illinois, not “the land of Lincoln”; plus preparing for Zaha Hadid’s eulogy.
Alejandro Aravena is Director of the Architecture Sector for the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, taking place from 28 May to 27 November 2016.
Design: ANGATU Arquitetos
Center of artistic and cultural activities – the challenge was to gather in the same building activities such as classical ballet, choral, ballroom dancing, art exhibitions and martial arts.
Design: Shift architecture urbanism & Powerhouse Company. Tender win for Coulissen West, the last piece of the large urban development West of Breda Central Station. The dense proposal mixes 40,000 sqm of flexible work-meeting spaces, apartments and restaurants.
The Royal Institute of British Architects and AHR announce Boon Yik Chung as 2016/17 winner of RIBA AHR Stephen Williams Scholarship. He did his Part 1 at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and works at muf architecture/art LLP.
Design: Geraghty Taylor Architects. Award-winning creative property developers, Allied London have revealed the details of their first, two residential communities within their St. John’s neighbourhood.
Design: Fletcher Priest, architects. Landmark 16-storey office development: the building, which includes retail, basement and basement mezzanine spaces, will be 80% more energy efficient than the 1980s eight-storey structure it has replaced.
Kunshan Opera House building near Shanghai, China – design by Cui Kai, architects – the fluent shape of the facade and smooth interior space evoke the dancer’s movement and posture.
Design: OFL Architecture. Zighizaghi is a multi-sensorial urban garden created by OFL Architecture that stems from a collaboration with the client Milia Arredamenti and Farm Cultural Park.
The arhiDOT architectural practice wanted an unconventional and representative space, small and manageable, a place where we’ll feel more at home than at the office, providing a direct contact with the street and the city.
Design: Arte Charpentier Architectes. The Central Market in Phnom Penh is a remarkable monument, not only because of its architecture but also by its influence on the shape of urban space. Inaugurated in 1937, nearly seventy years ago, it still remains an architectural model for the covered markets.
Design: SeARCH, CEBRA, JDS and Louis Paillard – new photos of this innovative and unusual residential development in the harbour of the main city in Jutland. These buildings develop Denmark’s second largest city in a socially sustainable way by renovating its old, out-of-use container terminal.