National Arts Centre in Ottawa: NAC reopening

National Arts Centre in Ottawa: NAC

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

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

Boundary Apartment

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

Suzanne House

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

Multifunctional Centre for Norcia, Perugia

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

8 Octavia

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

The Silo Apartments

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

PwC-YMCA Tower in Vaughan ON, Modern Ontario building

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.

Benjamin P. Grogan and Jerry L. Dove Federal Building

Benjamin P. Grogan and Jerry L. Dove Federal Building

Design: Krueck + Sexton Architects with Gensler. This 375,000-sqft, highly sustainable Federal Office Building occupied by the FBI is in Miramar, Broward County, Florida. Campus buildings respond to the local climate, natural environment, and agency needs.

St. Paul’s Chapel in New York City: Building

St. Paul's Chapel New York City

Eight events show how this chapel truly is an iconic New York City building by architect Thomas McBean. St. Paul’s Chapel celebrated its 250th anniversary last year. The chapel in lower Manhattan was once the tallest building in New York City.

Design Prize in Milan

M+ Pavilion West Kowloon Building

Aric Chen, Lead Curator for Design and Architecture at M+, named winner in the Design Curator and Design Critic category of the newly-inaugurated Design Prize, an annual awards programme that recognises excellence in design on a global scale.

Byron House Nottingham Trent University

Byron House Nottingham Trent University building facade cladding

Students had to move from buildings at Nottingham Trent University after similar cladding to the Grenfell Tower was discovered. Three of seven blocks at Byron House student accommodation reportedly use Reynobond ACM PE panels for building cladding.

V&A Boilerhouse Yard: Exhibition Road Project

V&A Exhibition Road Project courtyard design by AL_A

Film, info + images of Exhibition Road Quarter design by AL_A, opening this Friday. A new entry, gallery and the first porcelain-tiled public courtyard in the world will be accessed through the remodelled Aston Webb screen.

Blairgowrie Beach House Mornington Peninsula

Blairgowrie Beach House

Design: DX Architects. The Blairgowrie Beach House on the Mornington Peninsula retained and altered the rear proportion of the existing building and expanded the dwelling forward on a steeply sloped site to accommodate additional living and sleeping areas.