AIA Gold Medal 2016 Winners, Architects

Denise Scott Brown & Robert Venturi

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) award Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi the 2016 AIA Gold Medal, the organization’s highest honor. Seattle’s LMN Architects received the Firm of the Year Award.

German Hat Museum Lindenberg

German Hat Museum

Design: ATELIER BRÜCKNER. The Bavarian Museum Award, which comes with a prize money of 20,000 euros, will be presented to the German Hat Museum this year.The celebration will take place in 2015 in Lindenberg im Allgäu

Cube-2-box House in Myslowice, Poland

Cube-2 Box House

Redevelopment of a small single-family house from the 1970s located in Mysłowice, Poland, design by Zalewski Architecture Group. The main aim was to increase usable area of the house and improve building standards.

Stealth House on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland

Stealth House

Design: Teeland Architects: one of the challenges was to configure a design that enabled the house to have views towards the ocean to the east, as well as maximizing the north facing glass to capture winter sun and north views to the creak and rainforest.

Waschhaus Housing and Office in Andechs

Waschhaus

Design: Buero Wagner

As a commodity of the Benedictine abbey Saint Bonifaz in Munich, the monastery ensures the financial basis of the abbey’s pastoral, social and cultural work – according to the credo “ora et labora – pray and work.”

RIAS Festival of Architecture 2016

RIAS Festival of Architecture 2016

UK’s Richest Architecture Prize winners news. The programme looks promising, a good balance between looking inwards – engaging with non-architects – and looking outwards – to fellow cities.

Garden House Portland: SE Clinton Home

Garden House in Portland

Design: Waechter Architecture

Juror Kevin Daly said, “One of the things that is really striking about this project was it took three or four very onerous zoning requirements and turned them into real attributes of the project.”

National Sawdust Brooklyn Building

National Sawdust New York

Design: Bureau V, Architects with Arup, Adopting the name of the factory once housed within the century-old building’s shell, National Sawdust provides composers and musicians a place to receive commissioning support, mentoring and critical resources.

SCI-Arc Shanghai, China Architecture

SCI-Arc Shanghai

The Southern California Institute of Architecture launches SCI-Arc Shanghai, a New International Platform. New Director Hernan Diaz Alonso states, “SCI-Arc has become a mature, vital, and innovative institution operating on an international stage. We’re getting the school more and more involved on a global level.”

Annex House in Toronto property

Annex House in Toronto property

Design: Dubbeldam Architecture + Design. When the client, a young couple, purchased this property with its two structures – the main building and coach house – both had been used as rooming houses for many years.

Eureka Kvarteret Masterplan in Oslo

Eureka Kvarteret Masterplan

Architects schmidt hammer lassen wins international competition to design a 87,000 sqm masterplan in the area of Skøyen in central Oslo. Eureka Kvarteret will become a unifying urban development icon.

Mall of Scandinavia in Stockholm

Mall of Scandinavia

Benoy, the international firm of Architects, Masterplanners, Interior and Graphic Designers, is proud to announce the opening of its latest project, Mall of Scandinavia.