327 Hill Houses in Mikołów: Polish Housing

327 Hill Houses

Design: Zalewski Architecture Group. The houses are designed in cuboid form covered with gable roof. The use of homogeneous, synthetic composition, coloring and choice of façade materials provide modern and coherent character of the houses.

London Design Biennale 2016 Event

Somerset House London courtyard

The first London Design Biennale will open this September at Somerset House with over 30 countries participating. Nations from six continents will present newly commissioned works that explore the theme Utopia by Design.

Victoria Square Belfast Shopping Centre – Shops

Victoria Square Belfast

Victoria Square in Belfast opened in 2008. With a construction cost of approximately £160m, this landmark mixed-use city centre scheme design by BDP architects has changed the skyline of the city with its dramatic glass dome.

Rio Olympic Park Buildings, Brazil, Architects

Rio Olympic Park, Brazil 2016 Building Project Photo, Design Property Image Rio Olympic Park Buildings : 2016 Architecture Sports Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – design by BCMF Arquitetos page updated 15 Jul 2016 Concept designs of the Rio 2016 winning bid (20 venues), Rio de Janeiro 2009/10- Design: BCMF Arquitetos Rio Olympic and … Read more

Chicago Building Photos: Architecture

Wrigley Field Chicago building

Chicago architecture photos by Joe Lekas – find pictures of major Illinois buildings, USA – Chicago building photos, images of the top skyscrapers in the Windy City

OAA Awards: Ontario Association of Architects

Richard Ivey Building

2016 OAA Award in Design Excellence. The Richard Ivey Building at Western University designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects. The architecture creates a vibrant, unified, campus for the Ivey Business School.

Rio Olympic Park Master Plan: AECOM

Taking its inspiration from the dramatic natural setting and the energy and ambitions of Rio, AECOM’s winning masterplan design for the Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games will start to become a reality as works begins to develop the plans by teams in London and Rio de Janeiro.

Nestle Factory Brasil, Caçapava Building

Nestle Factory Caçapava Building: main intention of the design for Nestle factory’s visiting areas was to create a landmark in the generic landscape of the highway that connects São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

Homes for Scotland Awards 2016

The Turf House, Skye, Scotland

Homes for Scotland has announced the shortlist for Scotland’s premier industry awards as the organisation prepares for its largest ever celebration of the sector’s achievements.

Charoenpong Kindergarten in Bangkok

Charoenpong Kindergarten

Design: I Like Design Studio. The brief for the project was to enlarge school building by transforming the formerly playground and yard. The new building has 7 classrooms, bathroom, recreational area, faculty room, lunch area and playground.

eVolo Skyscraper Competition New York

eVolo Skyscraper Competition 2016 winner

First Place awarded to Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu from the United States for the project ‘New York Horizon’. The design proposes a continuous horizontal skyscraper around the full perimeter of a sunken Central Park in Manhattan, creating 7 square miles of housing.

Hood Museum of Art Renovation: Building

Hood Museum of Art Building

Design: Charles Moore Architect; renovation design: Billie Tsien and Tod Williams – proposals for Hood Museum at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, have caused a backlash from fans of the Postmodern architect and author, according to The New York Times.

Met Breuer New York Building, USA

Met Breuer Building Manhattan

Metropolitan Museum of Art on Madison Avenue. Occupying the old “Whitney” in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The former museum closed in 2014 to relocate to a new building designed by Renzo Piano in Lower Manhattan that opened in May 1, 2015.

A House in a Church in Rotterdam

A House in a Church

Design: Ruud Visser Architects. Along the river De Rotte in Rotterdam stands a wooden church from 1930. The church was not in function anymore and was used as a garage for fixing and selling cars.