Poised on the ridges and rolling fields where the Beartooth Mountains touch Montana’s big sky, the new Tippet Rise Art Center will open to the public in summer 2016, offering local residents and international visitors a uniquely resonant experience of great classical music, nestled among sculptures and buildings that hug the land like natural formations.
Design: Steven Holl Architects. Eight years after winning the competition this New York design studio have received approval to build a pair of skyscrapers in Copenhagen harbour, linked by a pedestrian and cycle bridge 65m above the water.
Design: Nicolas Loi. The house is located in Lo Curro, a residential area of Santiago, Chile. The area has some hills and forest, with a great view of the city of Santiago. The design strategy is based on a 7 x 25 meter rectangle, located over an existing parking space.
The seventeenth iteration of these popular, biennial architectural awards recognises the growing influence of copper and its alloys on modern design.
Design: Standard Studio. Ons Dorp is a school building that got converted into different apartments. This particular one was designed for a family of five. The teacher’s lounge got remodeled into the bedrooms and the classroom into the living space
Roughly a dozen years after Daniel Libeskind’s extension to the Jewish Museum Berlin opened to great acclaim in 2001, the museum is set to unveil its latest collaboration with the architect, the Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin.
“If, in all the different action movies, there was an architect superhero – first of all, he would do the things that Renzo Piano does. Second of all, his name would inevitably be Renzo Piano” remarked Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor at the opening of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Design: Diego Wisnivesky, ArchLab360. Located in the middle of a clean and quiet manufacturing industry complex, the building was designed for the company’s headquarters, to house the development and manufacturing of digital technology based products.
The AJ declare this as their house of the year. The building is a very rare example of the construction of a contemporary property within the World Heritage Site of the New Town of Edinburgh
Design: Arup Associates, Architects. BSkyB Believe in Better Building (BiBB) won the ‘Judges Special Award’ for this outstanding building as recognition of its reflection on Sky’s sustainable aspirations.
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Design: UNStudio / Arup. Arnhem Station will be officially opened this week, on 19 November. The multidisciplinary approach by the architecture firm UNStudio and Arup linked architectural design to human behaviour in a unique way.
This Tuscan property design by Architettura Matassonin is organized around a central courtyard with the function of home life’s core; this compositional logic allows a visual reciprocity between the different environments.
Design: MVRDV / The Urbanist Collaborative / LLJ Architects. Competition win for the transformation of the T-axis in downtown Tainan, aiming to reconnect the city with nature and its waterfront by creating a lagoon and a green corridor with public interventions.
Design: Studio Marco Vermeulen. This museum building has been completely transformed and extended with a new wing that opens to its beautiful surroundings and houses a restaurant and temporary exhibition space for contemporary art.