Casa FL 118 in Mexico Residence
Design: Raúl Peña A. Architects. A studio and a roof terrace in an adjoining house to the Frida Kahlo’s Garden ends facing Venustiano Carranza Street in La Conchita patrimonial wooded square.
Roca London Gallery Exhibition
London regeneration exhibition in building designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. Roca London Gallery will host a photographic exhibition during the London Festival of Architecture, exploring some of the Capital’s key regeneration projects.
Entitled Regenerating Capital: Healthy growth, healthy city?, the exhibition will look at the impact regeneration has on green spaces, small businesses, local communities and valued buildings.
Pop up Chandelier Pavilion in Camden Festival
Design: KSR Architects. To mark the start of the first ever Camden Create festival – a three day celebration of creativity in the area – local architectural practice KSR Architects has created a pop up public pavilion at the area’s famous Britannia Junction.
The colourful creation is made up of 640 fluorescent tubes, which will be held together by a lightweight theatre and stage truss system.
Goat Lees Primary School in Ashford
Pellings LLP, the multi-disciplinary architectural, property and construction practice has designed Goat Lees Primary School, a pioneering example of a modern school, located in Ashford, Kent.
New Public Realm for Arena Central in Birmingham
Landscape Architects: Gillespies. The design for the public realm of the 9.2 acre site breaks away from the conventional institutional finishes found on many mixed-use city centre schemes, with 40% of the space given over to soft landscaping
McKinnon Center for Global Affairs at Occidental College
Design: Belzberg Architects. The renovation and adaptive re-use of Occidental College’s historic Johnson Hall, integrates the enduring traditional qualities of a small liberal arts college with new educational practices.
The historic exterior of the building is preserved, whilst the interior is fundamentally rethought. The effect is fully transformative: rather than simply housing technology, the building has become technology itself.
ONE PRIZE Competition, Brooklyn Contest
ONE PRIZE 2014 Architecture Competition – Jury News. Open International Design Competition for Building a Vibrant Center for Design, Science and Education at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, run by Terreform ONE
This architecture competition is set in the context of the renovation of the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a green technology and sustainable manufacturing complex.
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman
Design: Foster + Partners. In a striking about-face, the New York Public Library has abandoned its much-disputed renovation plan to turn part of its research flagship on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street into a circulating library and instead will refurbish the nearby Mid-Manhattan Library.
New Fetter Place in London Holborn Circus
Design: TateHindle. New Fetter Place, the redevelopment adjacent to Holborn Circus, has been completed. It comprises a newly regenerated 12-storey octagonal shaped tower at 8-10 New Fetter Lane and a newly constructed six-storey link building at 55 Fetter Lane.
The design for the 135,000 sqft redevelopment included extensions to the octagonal shaped tower, a new façade, remodelled service core and new mechanical & electrical services to provide an additional 40% of Class A office accommodation.
ASB North Wharf – Auckland Building
Design: BVN Donovan Hill with Jasmax
The New Zealand Architecture Medal is the highest architectural honour in New Zealand and is conferred upon just one project that is considered superlative.
ASB North Wharf in Auckland by Australian architects BVN Donovan Hill in association with New Zealand architects Jasmax received this coveted prize at the New Zealand Architecture Awards announced in Auckland on 9 May.
Osler House, Brasilia Property, Brazil
Design: Marcio Kogan Arquitetos. The site of the Osler House lies at the edge of Brasilia’s pilot plan, at the tip of one of Paranoá Lake estuaries. The house is a poetic commentary on modern architecture, above all on Brazilian modernism, starting from a contemporary re-reading of the building materials and techniques.
BNKR Arquitectura Mexico City: Arquitectos
BNKR Arquitectura news – Social Topography – Topografía Social. In 2012 the architects built the Upcycling Pavilion that operated as the cafeteria of Expo CIHAC, the largest architecture and construction exhibition in Latin America that takes place every year in Mexico City
The tallest skyscrapers under construction
Tallest Skyscraper Buildings: European skyscraper architecture: ten tallest buildings currently under construction in Europe, notably in in Russia: construction of the continent’s future tallest skyscraper, Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg, is under way. At a height of 463m, the tapering, pointed supertall will surpass the current record-holder, Moscow’s Mercury City, by 124m.
Mirante Do Horto House, São Paulo
Architect: Flavio Castro. The concept of the house has a strong influence of national and international artistic movements such as the modern architecture and Bauhaus. I believe that architecture is the result of an academic reflection on real needs that creates possibilities according to the culture, environment, etc.
USA Pavilion Venice Biennale 2014
Design: Leong Leong. OfficeUS, the U.S. Presentation at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, explores the last 100 years of United States architectural production abroad and the ways in which the U.S. architecture office has exported architecture around the globe.
Museum For Argo in Greece, Volos Building
Tense Architecture Network wins 2nd prize (shared) in the European competition for the new Museum of the reconstructed mythical ship Argo for the city of Volos in Greece
Dongguan Botanical Gardens, China
Design: John McAslan + Partners (JMP)
The design is a contemporary re-interpretation of the essential characteristics of a tropical plant leaf structure, integrating architecture and landscape to provide a holistic approach for the site. The building is based around a gridshell roof structure which engages lightly with a landscaped mounded base mediating between the internal and external landscaping.