Deadline extended to May 20: a call for works of art or design – a selection of twenty ‘Objects’ to be exhibited around a symposium by the Center for American Architecture and Design (CAAD) at The University of Texas at Austin.
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Architectus selected from shortlist of four architectural design teams to design the $83.1 million State Library of Victoria Vision 2020 redevelopment in Melbourne, Australia.
Design: Henriquez Partners Architects. The development features a 22-storey signature office tower in Vancouver BC, the first building in Canada built to have achieved the 2009 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum standard and a 47-storey residential tower targeting LEED Gold standard.
Design: Prototype Design Lab Inc. The Bella Vita Villa celebrates its natural, oceanfront site. The villa explores lightness, filtering natural breezes, layers of transparency and integrating indoor / outdoor spaces within dynamic patterns of light and shadow.
Based on a design by HENN, the listed building, which was the brainchild of the architects Walther and Bea Betz, underwent energetic restoration and comprehensive restructuring of the interior rooms.
RIBA Northeast Awards winners news
The winning buildings are: Ashington Community & Leisure Centre – Ryder Architecture ; Crook Hall Visitor Centre – Elliott Architects ; Edge Hill – Sutherland Hussey Harris ; Hebburn Central – FaulknerBrowns Architects ; The Paise – Newton Architects
Richard Murphy Architects news
– Kinnear Road Building, Inverleith, north Edinburgh
– Anglia Ruskin University Building, Young Street Campus Cambridge: Winner of Cambridge Design and Construction Forum for Best Large Building
– alternative proposals to transform Edinburgh’s former Royal High School into a new music school endorsed by Historic Environment Scotland
Pedagogy and Place: Celebrating 100 Years of Architecture Education at Yale, looks back on the evolution of Yale’s unique approach, beginning with an early Beaux-Arts influence to mid-century leadership under architect Paul Rudolph.
Crazy golf course for London’s Trafalgar Square – crowd-funding campaign. London Design Festival is hoping to raise £120,000 for the Visionary Crazy Golf, dreamt up by artists and designers, including the late architect Zaha Hadid.
Design: Cubo and jaja, with VBM, Schul Landscape, Søren Jensen Engineers, and Professor Mogens Morgen of The Aarhus School of Architecture
International architecture competition to form a masterplan for Nyborg Castle on the island of Funen.
Design: John McAslan + Partners. Consent obtained for refurbishment of the Grade II listed Millbank Tower to form 207 flats as well as a 150 bedroom hotel, gardens and a new cultural facility.
The House of Lords ‘Select Committee on National Policy for the Built Environment’ announce a strong statement to the Government to reinstate the Zero Carbon new homes standard.
Innovative New Performing Arts Venue in European Cultural Hub
Arup help project stakeholders define a facility that supports exploration and experimentation in the future of dramatic performances with music.
Design: ZHOU Qi Studio, Architects
The form of the High-rise building comes from Chinese character “People”, corresponding to the title of the media People’s Daily. The triangular plan is transformed from the structure of the character “People”.
Design: RTA-Office, architects
The project developed by RTA-Office belongs to a big masterplan that includes three different museum buildings surrounded by a big green area.
Design: hamhuis architecten. The team at hamhuis architecten has created a spectacular detached property that provides a modern twist on the design of the traditional colonial houses found in the peat cutting area of Dedemsvaart, the Netherlands.
Architecture Contest in Moscow – winning design by Zaha Hadid Architects. Five leading architecture firms were selected to participate in the competition.