Buchan Group Architects Practice Information

Allen Lucini Buchan Group Principal

The Buchan Group news – new Principal Allen Lucini, based in Melbourne, desires to evolve design culture within this architecture firm. He was lead designer on Mall Plaza Vespucioy, and has played key leadership roles in master planning and development for a range of residential, commercial and retail projects in Australia and overseas.

2017 A’ Design Awards Champions

Manshausen Island Resort by Snorre Stinessen

The World’s largest and most diffused international design awards 2016 – 2017 design competition results: 1959 winners from 98 countries in 97 different design disciplines. Evaluated by international jury panel composed of established scholars, prominent press members, creative design professionals and experienced entrepreneurs.

The Helix Tower in Abu Dhabi

The Helix Tower

Design: Studio Prescient Architects – garden apartments with planters running all along the periphery of the balcony that surrounds the home and a 25 ft. by 40 ft. verandah that protrudes beyond the balcony line allowing fantastic sky views.

Prescot Market Place Competition, Knowsley

Prescot building, Merseyside pub

RIBA and Knowsley Council announce Mark Wray Architects with Seed Landscape as competition winners for redesign of Prescot Market Place, Knowsley in Merseyside, England. The renewal will compliment proposed Shakespeare North Playhouse and new cinema. The design competition brief requested a landmark space.

Preston Outdoor Education Station, Elmdale, Kansas

Preston Outdoor Education Station, Elmdale, Kansas

Camp Wood is a high quality outdoor education for youth throughout Kansas, USA, in an endangered ecosystem at Tallgrass Prairie, KS. The graduate level Design+Make Studio at Kansas State University developed robust forms and spaces within this beautiful landscape.

Chicago Architecture Biennial Public Programming

James Welling Chicago, 2016-2017

Chicago Architecture Biennial public programming for 2017 – performances, talks, forums and film screenings. This architectural event runs September 16, 2017 through January 7, 2018, with Preview Days on September 14 and 15, 2017.

The Curtain, Shoreditch Hotel, East London

The Curtain Shoreditch Hotel, East London

New high-profile restaurant, hotel and members club designed by architects Dexter Moren Associate for Hotelier Michael Achenbaum. The red brick building reflects the architectural heritage and industrial history of Shoreditch. Large-framed Crittall Windows give the building a strong rational identity.

VICE Head Office Montréal workplace

VICE Head Office Montréal interior, Griffintown building

Designed by Martha Franco Architecture & Design with Roker Construction this is the Quebec head office for a Montreal media outlet. Located in a former printing workshop in Griffintown, a former industrial neighbourhood, the interior uses exposed brickwork, conduit and solid timber beams.

Tandem House in East London

Tandem House

Architecture for London designed these house extensions – they are a sensible way to enlarge and improve your home, but sharing the overall costs demonstrates a future economic model for Londoners living on a budget in terraced housing.

Toorak House, Melbourne Residence

New House in Toorak, Melbourne

The interiors designed by Sisalla Interior Design to balance a contemporary minimal house with a welcoming ambience. Public spaces have a quiet luxury with a focus on contrasting texture whilst the private areas have softer materials creating warmth and relaxation

The Pool House in Randwick

The Pool House in Randwick

Luigi Rosselli Architects designed the wraparound swimming pool which plays the starring role in the alterations and additions and has become the architectural pivot that binds one hundred years of history.

Henning Larsen Foundation Architecture & Music Competition

Henning Larsen Foundation Architecture & Music Competition winners in 2017

The winner is Cristian Vogel, a Chilean who now lives in Copenhagen. His composition “The Bell Tower Seed” won out of 145 entries from composers in 21 countries. Second prize goes to Jakob Draminsky Højmark from Copenhagen. Third prize is awarded to Henrik José, born in Sweden but living in Berlin.