The Homebuilding & Renovating Show 2018
With just two more months to go, The National Homebuilding & Renovating Show has witnessed 85 per cent of its stand capacity being snapped up by exhibitors and is issuing its last call for entry.
Florence Architecture, Italy – Firenze Buildings
Florence architecture news, contemporary Tuscany building designs – built environment updates: central Italian architectural links – Firenze building news, key construction design info & property images
Centre de services Le Bonnallie, Orford, Quebec
The new Centre de services Le Bonnallie building, designed by Anne Carrier architecture, is located in a forest. The first half of the building’s main volume gently follows the same contours from which the outdoor amphitheatre is carved.
St Tropez Villa in France, Residence in Var
The design by SAOTA comprises a series of horizontal planes – the green hedge on street level, the solid street facing front of the house, the indoor layers running from east to west, the linear terrace and sloping green embankment and swimming pool below.
iGuzzini Ibérica SA Headquarters Barcelona
Designed by architect Josep Miàs the new iGuzzini Ibérica S.A. headquarters has two parts, each with a different function: one is low, extensive and underground, with no natural light and built in concrete; the other is spherical and with a glass shell, floating over the landscape.
Norton Legal Office Footscray
Designed by Dreamer Norton Legal is new workplace for a modest but sophisticated contemporary law firm within an existing industrial building in Melbourne’s west.
Messner Mountain Museum Corones, South Tyrol
Remembering Architect Zaha Hadid – a key recent building: embedded within the summit of Mount Kronplatz, 2,275m above sea level at the centre South Tyrol’s most popular ski resort, this daring building is surrounded by alpine peaks.
Thumb House in Madison, Wisconsin
Designed by Lazor Office the spaces of the Thumb House actively engage the surrounding landscape. Where the warm wood façade of the house recedes within a zinc wrapper, framing a panoramic view of water and sky
New Islands Brygge School Copenhagen
C.F. Møller and Tredje Natur present a new lower-secondary school building at Islands Brygge, which provides the framework for physical, sensory and experience-based learning, with special focus on food and movement.
InfoTech Office Building at Celebration Pointe in Gainesville
CUPKOVIC architecture designed the InfoTech Office Building at Celebration Pointe project, which is part of Celebration Pointe, a mixed use project consisting of approximately 130 acres consisting of retail, office, residential and entertainment uses.
Drifter Way House in Whistler, British Columbia
Designed by Stark Architecture Ltd Drifter Way House’s new plans offers a three bedroom suite, a two bedroom standalone building and a three bedroom primary residence.
38-44 Rye Lane, Peckham Building, London
Keith Williams Architects’ residential-led project at 38-44 Rye Lane, for developer Reality Holdings, unanimously approved: 716 m2 of retail with 27 residential units above, replacing a dilapidated 3 storey 1960s converted office building.
Somme Houses Edithvale, Melbourne property
Designed by Jarchitecture this development of two townhouses sits on a quiet cul-de-sac at one end and a beach on the other. Given the sites contextual tension, the design is squeezed and defensive looking at one and at the other end.
RIBA Gasholder Bases Ideas Competition
Many former gasholder buildings will be dismantled over the coming years. These voids represent an opportunity for repurposing: winner news for this competition that sought alternative uses.