MVRDV Appoints Five New Partners

MVRDV Appoints Five New Partners

The founding partners of MVRDV, Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries, announce an update of the management structure to accommodate the growth and optimise the efficiency of the globally operating architecture and urbanism practice.

Hopetoun Road Residence in Toorak, VIC

Hopetoun Road Residence

Design: B.E Architecture. The approach for the renovation and extension of the Hopetoun Road Residence is to retain the existing structure as an anchoring element, adding a series of pavilions underneath a floating copper roofline that wraps around the original building.

Trollbeads Copenhagen Shop, Tolbodgade

Trollbeads Copenhagen store

Design: BBP Arkitekter. New photos of this luxury jewellery store: a 1960s office building transformed into a high-security building with a fluid facade, organised like a Venetian merchant house.

Charlie Hebdo Portable Pavilion Competition

Charlie Hebdo Portable Pavilion Design Competition Winner

Bee Breeders Architecture Competitions – Charlie Hebdo Portable Pavilion architectural contest winners
This design competition tasked participants with designing a mobile structure to support and promote the principle and ideals of free speech.

Manchester Skyscrapers by Architect Ian Simpson

Manchester River Street Skyscraper by Architect Ian Simpson

Design: Simpson Haugh & Partners, Architects. Plans submitted for four residential towers, from 38 to 64 storeys + a 42-storey glazed tower, 5 floors lower than the 554 ft tall Beetham Tower, the most famous building by this architecture studio

Luxury Brisbane Home

Luxury Brisbane Home

Design: Dion Seminara Architecture

Loved for its clear blue skies and sub-tropical climate, Brisbane can be a city of soaring power bills as its occupants turn to refrigerated air to escape stifling humidity, but not for the owners of this beautifully renovated Australian home.

British Library London Building, Euston Road

British Library Building

The British Library has been listed at Grade I by the Heritage Minister, Tracey Crouch, on the advice of Historic England. Additionally, seven later 20th century libraries have been listed at Grade II.

De Alliantie Office Hilversum Building

De Alliantie

Design: Studioninedots. The most eye-catching intervention involves the removal of large areas of infill floors and walls from the sturdy concrete structure. This creates a spectacular four-storey-high void, the light and lively new heart of the building that connects the different departments.

McCulloch Residence in Montreal Mount Royal

McCulloch Residence in Montreal Mount Royal

Design: Naturehumaine Architects. The project was carried out in an old residence built at the foot of Mount Royal around the 1860s for Dr. McCulloch, after whom the avenue would later be named. The residence was subsequently divided into two houses.

Prof. van Bemmelenlaan House in Utrecht

Bemmelenlaan House

Design: BYTR architects. A 1930s house is completely transformed to match the modern wishes of the client. This includes the kitchen/living with the new extension and the hallway on the ground floor.

Danish Jewish Museum, Libeskind Copenhagen

Danish Jewish Museum Copenhagen interior

Located in one of the oldest parts of Copenhagen, the Danish Jewish Museum is housed in a former 17th-century boathouse and library built by King Christian IV. Studio Libeskind designed the new interior space, while preserving the original building.

ArDe Somerset House London Event

ArDe Somerset House

Architecture curator Sam Jacob says, “ArDe is a show that brings together worlds of architecture, property and design to create a dialogue about the future of our cities.” Founder of ArDe is Esperanza Koren, an architect with 20 years’ experience,.

Nørreport Station Copenhagen building: COBE

Nørreport Station Copenhagen

Design: COBE + Public (Architects) + Grontmij Carlbro. New photos of this building that has been nominated for both The Danish Landscape Award 2015 and The Arne Award 2015 from the Danish Association of Architects.

Harris Academy Dundee Building, Tayside

Harris Academy Dundee

Design: Holmes Miller, architects. The construction phase of the new £32m Harris Academy, in Dundee, has ended; the finishing touches of final fit out and commissioning are now ongoing in anticipation of service commencement for the next term in August 1016.

North England Build 2016 Expo

North England Build 2016

Construction Event at Manchester Central. It has been two years since George Osborne announced his “devolution revolution”, however, what does the Northern Powerhouse mean for business?

Bee Breeders Architecture Competitions, Homemade Dessert

Charlie Hebdo Portable Pavilion Design Competition Winner

Formerly known as Homemade Dessert Competition – HMMD. Bee Breeders (former HMMD Group) is an international team of construction industry related professionals who organises architecture competitions focusing on initiating progressive ideas.