Urban Nation Museum in Berlin Building
GRAFT developed the architectural concept for the conversion of an old residential building, located in Berlin. Through a clever modular façade the building itself can change and became a piece of art.
Landsec Headquarters Victoria Street Offices
Landsec’s new health-focused headquarters at 80-100 Victoria Street has set the benchmark for sustainable office space and showed what can be achieved when sustainability, energy efficiency and employee occupancy are prioritised at the outset of development plans.
Green Residence Yu Hang
Peter Ruge Architekten’s concept takes up this specific landscape feature. Flat residential buildings, townhouses and a kindergarten will be placed along this small river. Residential high-rise buildings in combination with commercial ground-floor buildings will be set up along the main streets in North and West.
Taichung Intelligence Operations Center building design
The Taichung Intelligence Operations Center designed by architect Elizabeth de Portzamparc officially designated a winning project. Showcase of the technology and sustainability, architectural symbol thought as a real vertical neighborhood.
Drawing of the Year 2017 Competition
Aarhus School of Architecture, schmidt hammer lassen architects, VOLA, and Danish Arts Foundation proudly announce the fifth joint venture competition Drawing of the Year 2017 awards and exhibition.
Complete Doorsets Fire Compartmentation
Following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, dhf (Door & Hardware Federation) stress the vital importance of compartmentation in preventing the spread of fires in multi-occupancy buildings such as tower blocks and office buildings.
Bombay Bustle Restaurant, Maddox Street, Mayfair
Award-winning London designers Fabled Studio have drawn upon India’s famed Dabbawalas to design their latest London project, Bombay Bustle, opened this November on Maddox Street in Mayfair.
Land Converter, London Housing Shortage, UK
People with unused back gardens, derelict garages, empty rooftops, and dilapidated workshops / light Industrial buildings could be sitting on valuable land for housing, says new business Land Converter.
Mashhad Residence, Iranian Property
This project by Pi architects is based in a residential building in Mashhad whose construction dates back to approximately twenty years ago. The building has two residential floors and a basement where a jacuzzi, a pool and a sauna are located.
Emporis Skyscraper Award 2016
The winner of annual Emporis Skyscraper Award for best new Skyscraper of the year is spectacular 34-story residential building VIA 57 West in New York City, USA, by BIG: tower design prize architects, info + images
Paulinum University Leipzig Building, Saxony
New buildings at second oldest University of Germany finally completed. Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat says: “By far the most challenging project in my career so far. I am very delighted with the final result. It reflects every detail of our design intentions.”
180 Samui Residence in Koh Samui, Thailand
The 180 Samui villa, designed by Sicart & Smith Architects is organized around an impressive pool overlooking the view, set up perpendicular to the main rock giving a dramatic effect of being cantilevered.
Beer Belly on Long Beach, California, USA
Make Architecture sought to utilize the existing wood truss ceiling as a feature by creating skeletal forms emanating from the ceiling that wrap down and become table tops at the bar area, as well as angling down and provide the spatial definition of the booths adjacent to the bar.
Southmere Village Library Design by RRA
New civic building design by RRA, Norway – “this hinterland, where Southeast London meets the marshes of Kent, and the River Thames meets the open seas under a vale of mist, has inspired some of the nation’s greatest artworks”.