Five Northeast buildings have won RIBA Northeast Awards from the Royal Institute of British Architects, which was announced at a prestigious awards ceremony held at The Museum Gardens, York in recognition of their architectural excellence.
Sitting on the escarpment at Seaforth the site is blessed with spectacular south facing views down to the Spit. Central to the idea of this house, designed by MASQ architecture, is how the natural environment can be extended and form an integral part of the house.
In 2017, just before demolition of the estate began, the V&A saved a three-storey section of each façade and the interior fittings of two flats. The fragments take their place in the V&A’s national collection of architecture as an internationally significant example of Brutalism.
Seven West Midlands buildings have won RIBA West Midlands Awards from the Royal Institute of British Architects, which were announced at a prestigious awards ceremony held at The Mailbox, Birmingham, in recognition of their architectural excellence.
Globally recognised adaptive reuse project, Tonsley, is one of 15 showcased in Australian Pavilion at Venice Biennale Architettura 2018, in an exhibit presenting architectural approaches to repairing the environment through design.
The School of Athens at The National Pavilion of Greece explores the importance of the academic commons at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
Noll & Tam found the inspiration for the nearly 30,000-square-foot library is a lantern, a welcoming symbol to the community, and a visual play on the rich “enlightened” world within.
For 28 years, Germany has been united – exactly as long as the Berlin Wall existed (1961–1989). On the occasion of this parallel, GRAFT and Marianne Birthler curate exhibition “Unbuilding Walls” at the German Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice.
People often say that life is like a voyage. Then, home must be that only island floating on it. It is the place where you treasure the collectibles discovered, and keep all the joys and tears you have experienced during the voyage.
Curators have invited 100 Hong Kong and international architects to design towers in free space, thus provoking intensive reflection and research on this typology. Spanish architect Fernando Menis was asked to design 4 of these 100 towers.
The Venice Biennale Singapore Pavilion exhibition asks if there is indeed No More Free Space? in the island state, in response to the overarching theme Freespace conceptualised by curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara.
Irish Pavilion explores the importance of the rural market place at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Curated by six young Irish architects and designers, Free Market aims to reassert the declining rural market square as a public place of social, political and cultural exchange, central to community cohesion.
MASQ architecture’s inspiration for the project lay in the established backyard which sat sunken down slightly from the surrounding. The brief was to add a new living room space, kitchen and accompanying dining room.
12 buildings across Northern Ireland win RSUA Design Awards, from shortlist of 21; including Main Site Tower and Peter Froggatt Centre, Queens University Belfast, by TODD Architects and Newry Leisure Centre by Kennedy FitzGerald Architects.