Caples Jefferson Architects, New York

Queens Theatre in the Park, New York building

Caples Jefferson Architects, NYC architecture firm founded in 1987, led by Sara Caples & Everardo Jefferson, win American Institute of Architecture New York Chapter President’s Award.

The Structural Awards 2017 Shortlist

The Structural Awards 2017 Shortlist

The Structural Awards 2017 shortlist news: celebrating amazing engineering. Now in its 50th year, these prestigious annual awards showcase the world’s best engineering structures and demonstrate the diversity of structural engineering

Circus Square Development Brighton, Sussex

Circus Square Development

Architects: shedkm. The design draws on the ‘patchwork’ of building styles within the Brighton cityscape and reinterprets them as part of a progressive and sustainable new quarter. The result is an exemplar urban design for mixed-use development.

Intrapac Property Head Office in Melbourne

Intrapac Property Head Office

Design: Robert Davidov Architects. The new office space for Intracpac Projects, a land development company based in Melbourne, was an opportunity to add some variety to the way the small knit team works and, more importantly, interacts.

Pre-War Apartment Renovation in Manhattan

Pre-War Apartment Renovation

Design: Solis Betancourt & Sherrill. The goal of the project was to create a colorful  pied-à-terre that could showcase the client’s collection of Latin American art. 

PACCAR Environmental Technology Building WSU

WSU PACCAR

Design: LMN Architects – $52.8 m PACCAR Environmental Technology Building at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, USA, brings to life the vision of WSU’s Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture and the pursuit of interdisciplinary research related to sustainability concerns.

Sussex Street House in Maylands, Western Australia

Sussex Street House

Design: Mountford Architects. Designed and built for an owner who wanted a small home that made the most of light and space on a small block, this steel and timber-framed project employed efficient design and construction techniques to provide open plan living over two levels.

Up-Cycled Warehouse in Melbourne Property

Up-Cycled Warehouse

Conversion of 1960s warehouse by Zen Architects re-using as much of existing building as possible – such as light fittings, doors, sprinkler pipes, cladding and roof sheeting – while transforming it to an energy-efficient family home.

Graham Foundation Grants 2018: Fine Arts USA

Francis Kéré, Serpentine Pavilion, 2017, London

Over $400,000 in grants to organizations around the world for 41 innovative projects creating original architecture. Selected from 220 submissions the projects include Eco Pavilion Mexico City and El Helicoide, Caracas.

National Eisteddfod Gold Medal 2017 Winner

Ysgol Bae Baglan, Port Talbot, Wales

Stride Treglown architects win prestigious Gold Medal for Architecture at the National Eisteddfod of Wales for £40m ‘super school’ building in Port Talbot, which has brought together three comprehensive and one primary school on one 15 hectare site.

XYZ House in Perth, Western Australia

XYZ House

Design: Mark Aronson Architecture. Situated on a sloping site, the original building was split level with a double garage off the street and steps to a raised veranda. The `site is on a North-South alignment and is sheltered from the strong southwesterly gusts from the ocean.

Masdar City Abu Dhabi Building

Masdar City Abu Dhabi building designs by Foster + Partners

Design: Foster + Partners – Phase 1 of the city, the initial 1,000,000 sqm, will be completed in 2015. Final completion is due to occur between 2020 and 2025