Glenstone Museum Pavilions, Potomac, design by Thomas Phifer and Partners – an installation surveying the breadth of its internationally renowned collection will be one of the inaugural presentations in its new building, the Pavilions, opening on October 4.
R7 King’s Cross by architects: Duggan Morris Architects with Weedon Architects: Argent shortlisted for RIBA Client of the Year 2018 – sitting as the colourful backdrop to the Granary Building in the King’s Cross regeneration programme is R7 – the next generation of workplace.
Kings Crescent Estate Phases 1 and 2 by architects: Karakusevic Carson Architects and Henley Halebrown: London Borough of Hackney shortlisted for RIBA Client of the Year 2018 – The original Kings Cross Estate had been half demolished in 2000 and the remaining community have lived with the resulting wasteland until now.
Hampshire County Council Property Services complete transformation of D-Day Museum Portsmouth: the architecture of the original 1980s building is revealed, exposing the large circular exhibition hall, containing the Overlord Embroidery, and enabling this principal form to be legible both inside and out.
St David’s Hospice, New In-Patient Unit, Newport, design by KKE Architects the 15-bed, in-patient hospice is a development of the original 2013 Day Hospice, itself a shortlisted project. The new building owes much of its special quality to unusually insightful clients.
Forest and Sports Park in Guang Ming, Shenzhen – LOLA, TALLER and L+CC win international architecture competition for a 600 hectare forest and sports park in southern China. Other competitors were JCFO, SWA and TCL.
Park Hill Phase 3 Sheffield regeneration news – housing renewal. Sheffield City Council grants permission for redevelopment by specialist student accommodation developer Alumno
Professor Nic Clear’s underground city for three million people is on display at Royal Academy of Arts 250th Summer Exhibition. The model ‘Chthonopolis’ is his vision of the future – an underground city for three million people, whose homes are built by droids from modified salt and their diet is based on insect protein.
Stephen Lawrence Prize 2018 Shortlist news – 7 projects shortlisted, including woodland classrooms for a school, a touching memorial to 173 people who died in Bethnal Green Tube station during the war and a hostel for vulnerable homeless women.
Bedford Park House, uptown Toronto home design Mehdi Marzyari Architects – an infill single family dwelling, the design objective is to create a new house with maximized liveable space and natural light within the tight and narrow site for an emerging developer.
Lycée Français Maternelle, Barcelona School building design by b720 Fermín Vázquez Architects – providing dialogue with the historical school formed from additions of temporary buildings over many years around two early twentieth century villas.
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Field Office Architecture’s client had been living in the inner suburbs of Melbourne for many years before deciding on a bit of ‘country change’. Keen on a slower pace of life, they’d been looking for a site for some time that was surrounded by nature.
Conceived first hand, by Blanchard Fuentes Design+Build, as a block in which to sculpt, the project was coursed as a subtractive endeavor initially – followed by an additive process to restore balance.