Mar Adentro Hotel San José del Cabo
Design: Miguel Ángel Aragonés, architect. An expansive architecture using simple rectilinear forms, focused on water and the ocean beyond, designed in a crisp white palette.
European Prize for Urban Public Space Finalists
25 finalists selected from 276 entries, 2 awarded joint First Prize with 4 Special Mentions. The European Prize for Urban Public Space – a biennial architectural competition – recognizes and encourages recovery projects and defense of public space in cities.
Try-on Truck in USA, Retail Fitting Room
Design: SAW + MOA. American architectural offices Mobile Office Architects and Spiegel Aihara Workshop collaborated to develop the True & Co. ‘Try-On-Truck,’ a nomadic retail fitting room traveling across the United States.
La Palma House in Mexico City
Design: Miguel Angel Aragonés, architect. Mexico is a land ‘watched over by the Sun’. Why not take advantage of this legacy and make it an accomplice of architectural space, letting its powerful presence dwell in our interiors?
NYCHA Red Hook Houses New York by KPF
Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) architects. The New York City Housing Authority—the city’s largest landlord with 178,000 apartments—has committed to introduce solar panels on its roofs from 2017.
Yale Center for British Art, Building
Design: Louis Kahn architect
After a decade of planning, eight years of renovation and a 16-month closure, this masterpiece designed by the Philadelphia architect during the last 15 years of his life reopens to the public on May 11.
Doubletree by Hilton in Xishuangbanna
Design: OAD, architects
This secluded and tranquil hillside resort in Yunnan, China, develops its subtle and elegant design from the architects’ understanding of local culture and geography.
Drøbak Architecture Competition Frogn
Norwegian Architecture Competition – architects shortlist news: Snøhetta, Haptic, Niels Torp, Jarmund Vigsnæs and Stein Halvorsen. Run by Frogn kommune, the 11,000sqm project has to achieve Passivhaus levels of energy performance.
k.21 Skardsøya, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Design: TYIN Architects. The cottage holds a special place in contemporary Norwegian culture. A few generations back the majority of the Norwegian people made a living from farming, fishing or lumbering, trades which afforded closeness with nature.
Sunderland Brewery Site Building by FCBS
Design: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, architects
Approval for the transformation of the former Vaux Brewery in Sunderland with a mixed-use building on a site that has remained empty since 1999.
Central Park New York, Manhattan
The park resulted from a design competition in 1857. It contains a zoo and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The park initially opened in 1857, on 778 acres of city-owned land (it is now 840 acres in area).
Peace Footbridge in Lyon: Dietmar Feichtinger
Design: Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes. The footbridge links the conference centre and St. Claire plus two major parks either side of the river. The bridge has a free span of 157m with an extremely slender structure.
Porto Seguro Cultural Centre in São Paulo
Design: São Paulo Arquitetura
An invitation to the public is made through large entrances without physical barriers and with a welcoming character. The folds guide the route and encourage curiosity to discover a new space.
Tebrau Waterfront Residences in Johor Bahru
Aedas-designed Tebrau Waterfront Residences is located within Iskandar, the rapidly growing city of Johor Bahru in Malaysia.
2 WTC New York by Bjarke Ingels architect
Developer Silverstein Properties uncertain whether it will retain Bjarke Ingels Group for the project or go with original architect Foster + Partners, but learning toward Danish architecture studio BIG.
National Music Centre Calgary, King Eddy
Design: Allied Works Architecture. Studio Bell is nearing completion: 160,000 sqft (14,860 sqm) new home for the National Music Centre of Canada is scheduled to open on 1 October 2016.
Smart School Irkutsk Education Campus
The vision for the Smart School project by CEBRA Architects is to create a new type of school – a “School Park” – that unites architecture and landscape into a unique learning environment and gathering point for the local community.