The high-density building complex with its mix of uses extends to over 400,000 square meters and, with its group of four high-rise buildings, defines the “Green Heart”—a public space extending over several stories.
PSLab designs custom-made and personalised lighting, produced in their in-house factories in Stuttgart and Beirut. Their designers and craftsmen work as partners in a team, in close collaboration with the client. Interaction between design and build is embedded in a fabric of good communication.
The exhibition, opened firstly in Lisbon last June, is part of “IMPORT/EXPORT”, a European network which aims to provide more visibility to local architecture by young architects in different countries, between 30 and 40 years old.
This contemporary reconfiguration, by Anton Kouzmin Architecture, of a Victorian terrace overlooks a new roof garden. The garden follows the traditional gabled roof form and serves as an external link to the tree canopy of the adjacent pocket park.
An ambitious project to replace the diamond-shaped roof of the University of Leicester’s world-famous Engineering Building, with all 2,500 glass panels reconstructed and replaced to exacting standards, is complete.
£7m housing scheme for Developing London in Hertfordshire, a new intimate community of 50 new homes designed by Stockwool Architects that combine brickwork with timber cladding.
Complexe sportif de Saint-Laurent, Montréal: sculptural nature of the building creates a strong link, two angular objects — one prismatic, white and diaphanous, the other darker and stretched horizontally.
The new building design by RLP Rüdiger Lainer + Partner Architects is the missing mosaic stone in the development area Sonnwendviertel. It is the beginning and transition to Helmut Zilk Park. Key challenges were high building density and a wide range of uses.
Vyn Yard has regenerated an urban brownfield site on a thriving artistic street in the Regents Canal conservation area with a mixed-use scheme of 23 apartments and commercial space, designed by Stockwool Architects.
Benoy news – appointment of Gregory Kovacs, formerly at Heatherwick Studio, as a Director in the Shanghai studio. He trained as an architect and engineer at Budapest University of Technology and at the Architectural Association in London.
Transformation of central hub of Grade II* Listed Art Workers’ Guild in Queen Square, Bloomsbury completed. Phase 1 consisted of sensitively carving out space from the existing early 20th Century rear additions.
BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and LEGO bring the toy scale of the classic LEGO brick to architectural scale with LEGO House, forming vast exhibition spaces and public squares that embody the culture and values at the heart of all LEGO experiences.
DP Architects news – Rhizome House and the new MediaCorp Campus – designed with Maki and Associates – win Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) accolades at the Awards Presentation Dinner.
Cox Howlett & Bailey Woodland’s work on the new (NRAS) Student Accommodation facilities at St Thomas More College has created an outstanding living and learning space where a diverse college community is encouraged to develop and excel.