Estonia Pavilion at 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale: “Weak Monument” curators Laura Linsi, Roland Reemaa and Tadeáš Říha, explore the spectrum between the explicit representation of the monument and the implicit politics of everyday architecture.
With stunning views of some of London’s most iconic buildings, the Jin Bo Law skybar opens at £36 m Dorsett City London in Aldgate: 14th floor roof extension design by Architects Dexter Moren Associates.
Century-old Hangzhou Normal University builds a new campus, designed by WSP ARCHITECTS, five kilometers west of the Xixi Wetland. The new campus planning consists of more than a dozen independent but fully open colleges, whose architectural style are different, forming a rich puzzle.
StairStalk is the centrepiece feature staircase for Oliver Dabbous’s new restaurant HIDE, which opened Monday the 16th of April at 85 Piccadilly, in London. Expertly built by Polish craftsmen, it spirals up through three floors.
The Korean Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia will present Spectres of the State Avant-garde, an imagined archive of the Korea Engineering Consultants Corp. (KECC), a technical consultancy for architecture and civil engineering established by the government in 1963.
Planning approval for scheme by architects Gort Scott for St Hilda’s College, Oxford. The concept design features a slender tower, rooftop gardens with wild-flower planting, and a riverside pavilion. Other finalists in the architecture competition were 6a architects, DRDH Architects, Hall McKnight and Tim Ronalds Architects.
Wiel Arets Architecture, The Netherlands, founded in 1983 and has since expanded to become an internationally renowned name. WAA has its roots in the Limburg region of the Netherlands, and has offices in Amsterdam, Maastricht and Zürich.
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects doubles its partner group with the appointment of seven new partners. The firm announces promotions across two of its three offices, indicating a generational shift for a practice known around the world for its iconic, sustainable cultural and civic architecture.
98 teams from 28 countries enter Dublin architecture competition and UCD expands shortlist from five to six teams in recognition of outstanding response from international design community.
In cooperation with the City of Aarhus, DSB, MT Højgaard and C.F. Møller Architects are preparing to realise the vision of a new Railway Quarter. This is a new, car-free urban quarter in Aarhus, which will develop the area and connect the surrounding neighbourhoods.
RIBA raise serious concerns over direction of Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, led by Dame Judith Hackitt, which started after Grenfell Tower fire. The final report is due in May.
New Moleskine architecture book: “Mecanoo is a Dutch architectural firm founded in 1984. The group has always paid great attention to the entire process control and focus on sustainable design and the study of matter and patterns.”
The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced the release of a design sketch, by Mass Studies, of the Seoul Cinematheque (tentative name), a visual art cultural complex to be built in Chungmuro, which is the center of the domestic film industry.
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