Design: fjmt, Architects. The University of Oxford has received planning permission for the refurbishment and extension of the Tinbergen Building designed by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt).
The Architectural Review names Jeanne Gang Architect of the Year in its 2016 Women in Architecture awards. Judges were particularly impressed with her Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College, Michigan, USA.
The winners have been announced for the Bee Breeders Tokyo Pop Lab architecture competition. This design contest aimed to create unique and exciting designs for the International Popular Culture Laboratory in Tokyo
A British School at Rome Architecture Award enables architects and architectural historians to immerse themselves in this visually stunning city whilst also benefiting from the BSR’s internationally-important Architectural exhibition programme and its unique residential research community.
Design: whipple^russell architects – this house was originally created for two artists, husband and wife; one an architect turned director, another, a writer and sommelier.
The CAE Design Awards is an internationally recognized marketplace of ideas. Through this forum the committee disseminates quality ideas on educational facility planning and design to clients, architects, and the public.
Design: Sir Peter Cook. This intriguing organic building was opened by architect Dame Zaha Hadid at Arts University Bournemouth. AUB’s new drawing studio is the first of its kind to be built in the UK for 100 years
reTHINKING architecture competitions, platform of ideas competitions for students and young architects, has published a new competition called “Carrara Thermal Baths”.
Design: Yrki architects. The orange color of the structure is that of traditional seaman’s wear. The alerting orange color makes the seamen visible, from near and from far, and enhances their security.
DPAI Architecture Inc. news. Architect office based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. DPAI Architecture is an architectural and interiors studio focusing on urban renewal and strengthening of community through design excellence.
BBGM is an internationally renowned architecture and interior design firm with extensive expertise in the design of government facilities, office buildings, hotels, resorts, high-rise residential, retail, mixed-use complexes, master plans for development, and renovation / restoration projects.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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”.