This one-day event explores new initiatives in the design of timber housing, the technologies emerging and the resources available in Scotland to research and develop ideas for new timber products and systems.
Tegnestuen Vandkunsten news – Back to the City Conference, GSA, Scotland. Keynote speakers include: Sjoerd Soeters, Piers Gough, Theodor Winters and Kathleen James-Chakraborty.
Design: spAce Architects. Casa Ald, a new house in Mexico City designed by architects spAce, that combines a balance between modernity and cosiness, has been completed.
Design: BIG architects. Nearly 1,400 people have signed a petition in opposition to Bjarke Ingels’ proposal to demolish a portion of the Smithsonian Institution campus: the Enid A Haupt Garden, which would be razed to make way for a new plaza.
Architects MVRDV partnered with Traumhaus, a housing producer which focuses on low-cost high-quality homes based on standardised elements, to design 27.000sqm of housing, gardens and public spaces.
Architect: LINK architects. The Lersch family bought the dilapidated farmhouse shortly after the millennium and were keen to preserve the historic building, intending to restore one of the last historic farmsteads, prominent in the area in the early 1900s.
Combat Outpost Shelters for US Soldiers by Iowa State University Graduate Design Students: conceptual schemes for combat outposts that would house US soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and help give them a sense of safety,
The £250 million Defence College of Logistics, Policing and Administration (DCPLA) at Worthy Down in Hampshire design by HLM Architects receives planning approval through delegated powers from Winchester City Council.
Design: Penoyre & Prasad, architects. The 13,600sqm scheme comprises an 80-bed nursing home, 51 affordable Extra Care flats and 48 affordable and market-supported living apartments with a shared community hub at its heart.
Design: AZC, architects. This project provides sheltered housing for frail, elderly residents with a variety of disabilities. The building comprises individual studio apartments, communal areas and medical consultation rooms for residents and out-patients.
The show is focusing on construction projects and developments in the north and is a great chance to create new business connections and network with industry professionals across the UK. The event will feature the major contractors, suppliers, architects, developers and many more construction industry professionals from across the region.
Design: Dr Margot Krasojevic. The project introduces a series of tethered floating levee piers to divert rising water levels, these striated interlocking elements are positioned where freshwater meets saltwater to the east of the delta, protecting the freshwater wetlands by filtering and diverting.
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.
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.
Design: Philippe Barriere Collective. Located in a rural landscape and sheltered by olive trees, the Residence-Atelier-Foundation is facing the majestic white outline of the Atlas Mountains.
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.
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.