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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ball Nogues Studio designers – installations, buildings photos, Los Angeles architecture practice – architects, spatial installation designs
Nicolinehus Aarhus Ø is a new mixed-use development in the heart of Aarhus Ø – shaped by the pulse of the city centre and merging with life on the waterfront
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
International architecture and design firm, NBBJ unveils designs for new headquarters building for Abcam plc at Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC). The 100,000 sqft laboratory and office facility, is now under construction at CBC’s global healthcare village.