El Meandro House Malaga, Spain
Design: Marion Regitko Architects. The El Meandro House is organized within one meandering form made of natural stone, creating three volumes with an open space interwoven between them.
Mohican Hills House Maryland
Design: Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, Architect. Mohican Hills House is located in Glen Echo, Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC, this new house is sited on a sloping, wooded lot with distant views of the Potomac River.
Beverly Hills Mixed-Use Campus: Frank Gehry
Developer Townscape Partners and architecture studio Gehry Partners propose an unsolicited plan to the Beverly Hills City Council to build a huge mixed-use campus: it includes cool office space, a five-star hotel, retail, and a three-acre public park
Skyslide US Bank Tower Los Angeles
Architects: Gensler. Glass slide suspended from 1,000 feet up! A proposed intervention at the US Bank Tower in downtown Los Angeles to let people glide down the building’s exterior.
Reimagined Tatlin’s Tower Jakarta, Indonesia
Design: PHL Architects. Taking the design conceived by Russian architect Vladimir Tatlin for St. Petersburg after the the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Now PHL Architects have taken that design into the 21st century, proposing a version in Jakarta.
Helter Skelter Orbit: Olympic Park Slide, London
Design: Bblur Architecture. Approval gained to wrap a giant slide around the ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The 178-metre-long helter skelter will be the “world’s longest and tallest tunnel slide”.
New Scotland Yard Headquarters Redevelopment
Design: Squire & Partners architects. Plans approved for 268-home mixed-use redevelopment of the site of Metropolitan Police’s HQ: permission gained to demolish three existing buildings of 7, 9 & 21 storeys on the triangular site in Westminster.
OXyGen Building in La Défense, Paris Tower
Design: Stephane Malka Architecture. OxyGen is the winning project for the development of La Défense’s Vignes area. OxyGen is a door ,a physical and visual input penetrating from the tracks and the banks of Neuilly sur Seine.
Tottenham Court Road Retail Units London
Design: Orms. The completed project breathes new life into the previously outdated streetscape and now provides ten new retail units, attracting top brands including Planet Organic, Oasis and DF Mexico.
Casino du Lac-Leamy Gatineau, Québec
Design: Sid Lee Architecture & FCSD architecture + design. The architectural intervention aimed to bring coherence to this space, open perspectives to better connect the spaces and identify their functions, and rework the vertical lines offered by the building.
Secretaría Distrital de Integración Social Bogota
Design: MOBO Architects. London architecture practice wins major Bogotá competition. The project for the department for social integration is the “architectural formulation” of the inner values of this institution.
MPavilion Melbourne 2015: Collins Street Park design
Design: AL_A, Architects. MPavilion 2015 will be relocated to a park on Collins Street for people to enjoy – part of MPavilion’s architecture in the city theme.
Summit House in Beverly Hills luxury property
Summit House in Beverly Hills luxury property design by whipple^russell architects for a family intent upon staying closely connected even while moving to a considerably larger home in Los Angeles, California, USA
Sheung Wan Ibis Hotel Hong Kong Building
Design: Chung Wai / Tony Lam of AGC Design. The story begins by tracing back in the 1920s Sheung Wan. The design reflects the historical streetscape of Hong Kong. The identity of the rectangular tenement house all seems to be in specific repetitive order, forming a uniform but dynamic streetscape.
Scottish Property Awards 2016 winners
The best new commercial and public property developments in Scotland have been announced at the Scottish Property Awards celebrated. The awards which recognise commercial and regeneration projects in towns and cities.
WTC Mosque in Abu Dhabi, UAE
London-based architecture practice AL_A won an invited competition to design a new mosque building in Abu Dhabi. The Mosque is part of the World Trade Center developed by Aldar Properties, one of the largest developers in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Dynamic Oasis Chengdu, China
SWA announces the landscape design for the new Performing Arts and Entertainment Center, located in the heart of Chengdu, the largest city in southwest China