The aim of the Responsive City architectural competition is to promote discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like.
Levitt Bernstein Architects news – Plans for a £12.5m Veterans Care Village at Broughton House in Salford, England, have been approved. Broughton House is the only home for ex-servicemen and women in the north west and in 2016 celebrated its centenary.
The CITO Surgery center is a specialized ophthalmology facility design by BAAS – Brunzini Arquitectos y Asociados. The high density site provides many sustainable benefits to building occupants. The nine levels include cultural and leisure activities on the ground floor.
RLP Rüdiger Lainer + Partner, Architects office Vienna news – buildings info + photos – key new projects by this Austrian architecture studio
A while ago Elenberg Fraser introduced Igor Kebel, their new Design Director – the time has come to introduce his first project, which they are proud to announce represents a dramatic shift in the Elenberg Fraser design process into a completely parametric environment.
One of a portfolio of daring holiday home architecture in the midst of the Catalan wilderness for French real estate developer Christian Bourdais: 12 architects have designed unique and expressive vacation properties.
Conceived by UNStudio as a lively vertical neighbourhood and transit hub and featuring stunning views of the river and West Lake areas: 60-storey contain residential units, Grade A offices, the Conrad Hotel and a rooftop helipad; also retail, restaurants, leisure facilities and parking.
New balcony design by X ARCHITEKTEN in historic Viennese district Wieden for an Austrian-Italian family. It complements the family’s living space with a small herb and vegetable garden as well as a dining table to enjoy mealtimes outside.
The Norman Foster Foundation officially launched in Madrid with the forum, ‘Future is Now’. Norman Foster is the founder and executive chairman of Foster + Partners, a global studio for architecture, urbanism and design. He graduated from Manchester University School of Architecture and City Planning, then won a Henry Fellowship to Yale University, USA.
MORE proposed a radical design strategy, not based on program, but on embracing change. The key driver for this new Chinese office building is the unpredictability of the environment and the ability of the office to adapt.
From far away, the building, designed by Matt Fajkus Architecture, USA, looks like a pavilion in the landscape as a structure to behold in and of itself, but from when close to the building it acts as deferential backdrop to function and a frame for views beyond.
Commissioned as an urban landmark by Continental Development Corporation, the tower building design by Richard Meier & Partners rises 127 meters and will set a precedent in Taiwan as a private building that dedicates its entire landscape to the public realm.
Zaha Hadid receives the 2016 Royal Gold Medal for architecture
The Royal Institute of British Architects has today announced that the globally-renowned architect Dame Zaha Hadid will receive the 2016 Royal Gold Medal, the first woman to be awarded the prestigious honour in her own right.
extended opening until 19 November. Review by architect Eleonora Nicoletti, “The first impression I had…can be summarised by a single adjective: joyous.” Also featured is architect Adrian Welch’s interview with AECOM about their role in this internationally renowned cultural project on the lawns of Kensington Gardens.