An audacious design by architects Beckmann-N’Thépé for the Marne-la-Vallée university library: it evokes a mound of earth ‘torn from its natural environment,’ in harmony with its surroundings. ‘Between naturalism and terror’ – Aldric Beckmann.
A delightful building by architects Li Xiadong/Atelier for a small village on the outskirts of Beijing: “we found large amounts of locally sourced wooden sticks piled around each house…(for) cooking stoves. Thus we decided to use this ordinary material in an extraordinary way, cladding the building in familiar textures in a way that is strikingly sensitive.”
Design: C.Y. Lee & Partners, architects. CTBUH 2016 Performance Award: In 2004 Taipei 101 became the tallest building in the world at 449m high with antenna at 509m, thus beating Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Towers.
Sliced Porosity Block, Chengdu building complex design by Steven Holl for CapitaLand, China, three million sqft project: Steven Holl Building China takes its shape from its distribution of natural light.
Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe announce that YTAA is one of 12 Collateral Events at International Architecture Exhibition titled Freespace, curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara and organized by La Biennale di Venezia.
A showroom and offices – a dynamic building designed ‘as a museum’ to showcase tiles as beloved possessions, with an unusual fractalised facade design that provides a confusing sense of scale.
Stepping down a steep hillside and overlooking the ocean, Mint Santa Theresa, designed by Studio Saxe, is a new hotel that blends a European design aesthetic with Costa Rican craftsmanship.
A luxurious open plan family home focused on entertaining, with a two-storey waterslide! The hedonistic Miami property by South African architects SAOTA is in the Collin’s Waterfront district
Snøhetta designed the new Planetarium and Visitor Center for Solobservatoriet in Harestua, situated near the original solar observatory, a twelve-meter research tower built by the University of Oslo for the total solar eclipse of 1954.
Restoration of iconic Hornsey Town Hall building in Crouch End to start. The Grade II* Listed former civic headquarters scheme has 146 new homes, including 11 affordable, a new arts centre, hotel, café and flexible community and events space.
Professor Balkrishna Doshi, of India, 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, to lecture at The University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design in May.
The Forestry Commission has teamed up with the Royal Society of Sculptors to create a new exhibition as part of Grizedale Forest’s 50th Anniversary of Arts and Culture in the forest.
BuckleyGrayYeoman completes work on The Minster Building. 315,000 sq ft repositioning project has created 250,000 sq ft of office space supported by a market-leading lifestyle offer.
