Trafalgar Square Architecture – Buildings

Palmyra Arch for Trafalgar Square

The Palmyra arch was replicated in London. Copies of the Temple of Bel entrance in Syria were built in Trafalgar Square in ‘gesture of defiance’. It will next travel to Oxford this summer and then New York’s Times Square this fall.

Xuhui Vanke Center Shanghai

Xuhui Vanke Center

Benoy, the global studio of Architects, Masterplanners, Interior and Graphic Designers, announce its appointment to the Xuhui Vanke Center in Shanghai.

Centre Point London, Oxford Street Tower

Centre Point Crossrail London

New photos of Crossrail building work around a renewed Tottenham Court Road Tube Station and this famous London tower, a substantial concrete and glass office building, one of the first skyscrapers in London,

Rio 2016 Olympic Park Deodoro Cluster

In the Deodoro Cluster, BCMF Arquitetos were responsible for the design of the X-Park (XPR), a “Radical Sports Park” including the Olympic BMX Center (BMX), Olympic Whitewater Stadium: Canoe / Kayak Slalom (CAN), and the Olympic Mountain Bike Park (MBK).

Voyager Espresso Bar New York

Voyager Espresso

Design: Only If, Architects. In early 2016, a new specialty espresso bar opened in a subway concourse of the Fulton Street station in Manhattan’s Financial District. The architects were commissioned to develop an innovative architectural and interior design for this unusual and small underground site, measuring only 550 square feet in area.

Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning Calgary

Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning Calgary

Design: Diamond Schmitt Architects. The new Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning realizes the university’s vision to be a world-leader in research and development of innovative learning experiences across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines.

Campus Hall Student Housing in Odense

Campus Hall

The design by C. F. Møller, Architects of the new student housing for the University of Southern Denmark in Odense is based on a strong community spirit. The 250 student residences are located in three interconnected 15-storey buildings

Vacation Cottages Brekkuskogur

Vacation Cottages

In Winter 2012 the PK Arkitektar studio was invited to take part in a competition for vacation rental cottages. The 20 cabins were to be located in Brekkuskógur, in the Southwest of Iceland.

Patrick Hodgkinson Architect, UK

Brunswick Centre

Patrick Hodgkinson, architect – new photos. The architect, who recently died aged 85, is celebrated for his design of the futuristic Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury, completed in 1972, after he had resigned in protest against the contractor-developers, McAlpine.

Tree House in Albergaria dos Doze, PT

Tree House in Albergaria dos Doze

Design: Saperlipopette les Architectes. Behind the project “casa no muro” there is the promise of a father to his children, to build them a tree house. But the tree overhanging the enclosure wall was on the neighbors land

Finalists of the 2016 AZ Awards

Tula House

Our distinguished jury has chosen the 66 finalists for the sixth annual AZ Awards, selected from the 826 entries that flooded in from 52 countries.

The winners from these finalists will be announced at our gala event, which will be held at the Evergreen Brick Works on June 17th in Toronto.