Cha Le Teahouse in Vancouver Hamilton Street

Cha Le Teahouse in Vancouver Hamilton Street

Cha Le Teahouse provides a modernist interpretation of the traditional Chinese tea ritual. The space is defined by a minimalist character that relies on an interplay of geometry and material uniformity. A meticulously coordinated plywood matrix motif replicated throughout the space creates a sense of rhythm, depth and shadow.

RIBA Honorary Fellowships 2018: Winners

RIBA Building London by evening

The Royal Institute of British Architects announces 2018 RIBA Honorary Fellowships, which will be awarded to 14 individuals from a diverse spectrum of backgrounds, including journalism, local government, art, architectural history and design.

CaoHeJing Guigu creative headquarters Shanghai

CaoHeJing Guigu Creative Headquarters in Shanghai

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects design for the new CaoHeJing Guigu Creative Headquarters in Shanghai aims to be a platform for innovation. The new Headquarters will help high-tech firms develop, and collaborate locally and internationally. This will act as an accelerator for new technology in China.

Arena Central in Birmingham Mixed-Use Building

3 Arena Central Building in Birmingham

3 Arena Central Building in Birmingham design by Make Architects: UK Cabinet Office to take a long-term lease at 239,000 sqft office building, part of the government drive to modernise its estate.

The Fire Lookout House in California, USA

The Fire Lookout House

This conceptual project that started out as a real one. A great client in California found the Seattle firm online, and hired Paul Michael Davis ArchitectsUSA, to design him a new house to replace one that had burned down in one of the increasingly frequent wildfires here in the West.

Westlake Pool House in Ohio property

Westlake Pool House in Ohio

Situated in the City of West Lake Hills, Ohio, USA, this pool house, swimming pool, spa, and terraced landscape use a unique sustainable design strategy employed by Murray Legge Architecture. Impervious cover and storm water run-off regulations within the city are very restrictive.

Premier Tower in Melbourne building

Premier Tower

This might be the first time you have heard anybody say this but at Elenberg Fraser’s new mixed-use project at 134-160 Spencer Street there’s actually less than meets the eye. Well, kind of.

ABB Leaf Awards in London 2017

ABB Leaf Awards in London 2017 Winners

The LEAF Awards return in September 2017 in London where more than 100+ leading senior architect figures will convene to celebrate excellence in design and construction and network with the world’s elite architectural community.

2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize

Fuji Kindergarten

Tezuka Architects’ Fuji Kindergarten building in Tokyo, wins 2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize, one of largest architectural prizes in the world. Shortlisted buildings + architects: 8 House in Copenhagen, Melbourne School of Design and Shobac Campus, Nova Scotia.

Millar Building at Macquarie University, Sydney

Millar Building at Macquarie University, Sydney

NBRS Architecture’s work on the Millar Building at Macquarie University has created light and airy 3 storey glazed atrium. The atrium is used for individual learning as well as encouraging chance encounters and collaborative research.

Nautilus Eco-Resort in The Philippines

Nautilus Eco-Resort

The Philippine seas are severely threatened. Over-fishing, mass tourism, massive pollution of plastic waste and toxic products, as well as climate change present real threats to the health of the archipelago and, of course, the survival of its inhabitants

Pablo Bronstein Exhibition at RIBA London

Pablo Bronstein Exhibition at RIBA London

Fifty new drawings by the British-Argentinian artist Pablo Bronstein, are framed alongside a selection of rarely-seen historical Georgian and Neo-Georgian material from the RIBA Collections; the exhibition focusses on buildings constructed during the second half of the twentieth century in an ostensibly ‘Georgian’ style.