Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015-2016
The inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial attracts over 1/2 million visitors in 2015. Strong public reception and critical acclaim means a return in the fall of 2017.
Zuckerman Museum of Art Atlanta
Design: Stanley Beaman & Sears. In just the last year, an unlikely arts scene has emerged more than twenty-file miles north-west of downtown Atlanta.
Bioclimatic House in the Gulf of Morbihan
Design: Patrice Bideau. In buying this house in BADEN, the owners wanted to adapt to a new life in the Morbihan by converting an existing dwelling into an energy efficient home using ecological building materials.
Heathdale Residence in Toronto, Cedarvale Park home
Design: TACT Design. This house projects a resolute demeanor towards the street with an undaunted face toward the ravine. The carefully crafted inner core is grounded by the sculpted wooden stair, which culminates at the 3rd floor study and wrap-around terrace.
The Television Centre in White City, London
Design: AHMM. Television Centre, the iconic former home of the BBC in London’s White City, will launch residential sales to the public in April 2016.
Manchester Cathedral Design Competition
Design: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, architects. FCBS wins the design competition for the £7m renewal of the cathedral building. Work on the Grade I-listed building is to be complete by 2021 in time for the cathedral’s 600-year anniversary.
Public Library in Varna, Bulgaria
spatial practice design for the Varna Public Library Competition is shortlisted and selected 3rd place among the winning entries. The design of the 28,000sm public library was selected among 370 entries
Maggie’s Southampton Centre, Cancer Care
Planning permission for building a new Centre in Southampton has been submitted. The architects are AL_A, led by Amanda Levete. The centre will be located adjacent to the Southampton General Hospital oncology unit.
Centre Village Winnipeg housing, Manitoba
Design: 5468796 Architecture Inc with Cohlmeyer Architecture. How did innovative ‘designer’ Winnipeg social housing, designed by one of Canada’s most celebrated architecture studios, become a haven for drink and drugs?
ETHZ Building at Hönggerberg Campus Zurich
Design: Stanton Williams + Stähelin Architekten. Stanton Williams is the only UK, and non-Swiss, architecture practice to be shortlisted in an international design competition to create a new physics building for ETH Zurich, one of the leading European universities for technology and the natural sciences.
SNFCC Athens Building: Renzo Piano Greece
Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center contains the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera, both set within the Stavros Niarchos Park
Shanghai Tower Building: China Skyscraper
632-m (2,073-ft) building designed by global design and architecture firm Gensler. Shanghai Tower is a beacon of sustainable design strategies, with prominent public spaces in a series of nine vertical communities.
A2-house Residence, Fukuoka City Property
Design: Masahiko Sato, Architect, A house to feel the benefits of nature and changes of seasons, the property design’s main concept is to protect the family from the adjacent industrial site.
Romo Printing shop & photo studio
Design: Claudio & Christian Gantous, Architects The owner of a successful industrial printing press had a architectural vision almost never seen in the sector: a plant whose cutting-edge technology included architecture designed to enhance worker inspiration and quality-of-life.
World Design Rankings: Architecture & Design
WDR Announces World Design Rankings in Arts, Architecture and Design. United States takes the first place among 83 represented countries in 2015 with 249 Design Awards won globally. Design rankings reflect the number of design awards won at international juried design competitions and awards
Centro Cultural Roberto Cantoral Coyoacan
Design: Broissin Architectes. Inspired in the movement of a conductor’s baton, the building design is composed of five concrete roofs moving up and down in harmony to give shape, space and light to the project. Each roof represents a staff’s line, always straight, constant and parallel.
Aedes Studio: Architects Bulgaria, Sofia
aedes studio news. This design collective based in Sofia, Bulgaria, has work in the fields of architectural design, interior design, graphic, identity, and media design. Established in 2003 by Plamen Bratkov & Rossitza Bratkova.