W57 New York City: West 57th Residential NYC
Design: BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group. New photos of Via 57 West, the tetrahedron-shaped Manhattan apartment tower: 940,000-sqft (87,330 sqm) tower on the Hudson River.
London Festival of Architecture 2017: LFA
London Festival of Architecture news – the show is over but many events continue. This architectural festival showcases London as a city rich in memories drawn from all over the world. Events include Wolfgang Weileder: Laban Transferred and The Cass Summer Show.
Storefront IS Hong Kong Events
Storefront for Art and Architecture, in partnership with the Hong-Kong based DESIGN TRUST (an initiative of the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design) presents Storefront International Series: Hong Kong (Storefront IS Hong Kong), a three-day series of events that discuss contested issues in contested sites across the city.
Snøhetta Architects: Oslo Architecture Studio
Snøhetta architects – Norwegian architecture studio news, pictures & projects – Snøhetta architects Norway, Oslo architecture practice
Fast Horse Minneapolis Offices, Minnesota
Employees have no assigned desks. “Ponies”, as Fast Horse worker are known, are encouraged not to occupy the same seat two days in a row and are encouraged to extend their “work space” beyond the office to the coffee shop, bar, or home.
MarierWagashi Cake Shop in Shenzhen
Design: BloomDesign
Marier in Japanese transelates to intimacy or an intimate connection between people. MarierWagashi locates its first heritage shop in Shangmeilin, Shenzhen, more precisely.
National Arts Centre in Ottawa: NAC reopening
On Canada’s 150th Birthday, the National Arts Centre inaugurates a new building wing. Diamond Schmitt Architects has designed a new wing which switches the entrance to face the city. The NAC now connects directly to Confederation Square and Ottawa’s Parliamentary Precinct.
Chengdu Zhongshuge Bookstore
Architects: X+Living
Zhongshuge, labeled as valuing culture, comes to Chengdu -a city full of cultural charm. The project is located in Yintai Center in Chengdu Tianfu Avenue. Taking the mall escalator to the 4F, we can see the familiar Zhongshuge label – text curtain wall at first glance.
Boundary Apartment in Taiwan Property
Architects: Wei Yi International Design Associates. This apartment design has a strong focus on colour. A blue color denotes ‘quiet elegance and deep sensibility’ to correlate with the owner’s ‘state of contentment’. The architecture also uses grey materials and unbright colours to provide a highly restrained style.
Suzanne House in San Jose, California
Design: Diebel and Company | Architects. Windows, doors and clerestories in the living areas of this Silicon Valley house allow natural light to get deep into the interiors of the home. The internal spaces of the property focus on the exterior yard, and tranquil landscape.
Multifunctional Centre for Norcia, Perugia, Italy
Design: Stefano Boeri Architetti. Opening news for new pavilion building: the first of four projects to allow people living in Norcia to use temporary collective spaces, while expecting the reconstruction of their public buildings damaged by the October 30th 2016 earthquake.
8 Octavia in San Francisco Residences
Design: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects. A gateway building at the entry from the 101 Freeway. Each occupant can operate louvers on the building façade, constantly changing the aesthetic of the architecture. Apartments are based on loft property design.
The Silo Apartments Copenhagen
Design: COBE architects. As the centrepiece of Copenhagen’s redeveloped Nordhavn (North Harbour), Danish architects COBE and clients Klaus Kastbjerg and NRE Denmark unveil the completed transformation of The Silo
PwC-YMCA Tower in Vaughan, ON
Design: Diamond Schmitt Architects. The largest urban development project in Canada broke ground on a central feature: a tower building at SmartCentres Place. It follows the KPMG Tower also by this architects office. The Class-A office space is due to open in 2020.