AHR’S London Office acquires PCKO
AHR acquires award-winning architecture practice PCKO to strengthen its offer in delivering innovative residential and affordable housing projects and large scale masterplans.
The Secret Life of Buildings, Austin, Texas
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.
State Library of Victoria Vision 2020 Renewal
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.
TELUS Garden Building in Vancouver
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.
Bella Vita Villa Turks and Caicos Islands
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.
HVB-Tower in Munich Office Building
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 2016 buildings
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
Morgan McDonnell Architecture, Edinburgh
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
Yale School of Architecture Exhibition, YSOA Gallery
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.
Trafalgar Square Crazy Golf Course in London
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.
Nyborg Castle Design Competition, Denmark
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.
Millbank Tower Renewal by John McAslan
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.
House of Lords Zero Carbon Homes Ruling, UK
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.
New Lucerne Theater Building, Switzerland
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.
People’s Daily HQ Office Beijing
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”.
Anhui Provincial Art Museum, Hefei Building
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.
Weekamp House in Dedemsvaart, Netherlands
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.