Education dominates the shortlist for this year’s National Eisteddfod of Wales’ Gold Medal for Architecture, which sees two schools and a university building alongside a private home in the running for the coveted architectural prize, supported by the Design Commission for Wales and Royal Society of Architects in Wales.
Architects: Studio Modijefsky. As their popularity continues to rise, VIA, as they are now called, decided it was time to take their brand to the next level.
Design: Weini Design
By extending the concept of five rows gable of the five elements to the indoor facade wall, the space presents a sense of solemn and gorgeousness, and serving as a link connecting the whole space at the same time.
Rotterdam architecture, Holland – best new buildings, Netherlands architects, images & news – Rotterdam buildings, designs, Dutch property developments such as MVRDV House, Timmerhuis and the Public Art Depot, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Design: Mecanoo, architects
This historic Dutch estate in the hilly Limburg countryside combines a luxury hotel, restaurant and spa. the architect practice designed an elegant pavilion building, with a curvaceous cantilevered roof, completing the ensemble of historic buildings.
London-based global architecture and interior design practice Arney Fender Katsalidis has completed the 420,000 sqft national headquarters for Deloitte in Toronto, Canada, setting new workplace standards for the professional services industry.
Travel to London in September: what to do – Exhibitions, music, gastronomy and outdoor fun. After the summer season, if you travel to London in September you will find pleasant temperatures and fewer tourists in the city.
Large-scale redevelopment one of the Scotland’s best-loved historic cultural spaces by Page\Park Architects and Graven Images: innovative combination of culture, education and sports in the same multi-use venue. After a £24.5m redevelopment it now attracts around 25,000 visitors per week
Artist Andy Scott’s 300-tonne Kelpie horse heads, The Kelpies, are the world’s largest pair of equine sculptures. The Queen has opened Scotland’s newest section of canal, part of the £43m Helix project near Falkirk.
Inverness, capital of the Highlands of Scotland, now has a fully refurbished pentahotel, bringing the penta group’s innovative “neighbourhood-lifestyle” approach to four-star hospitality to the heart of this strikingly beautiful city.
The Tchoban Foundation, in Berlin, exhibition will be opening on 7th of July, presenting 50 masterworks of contemporary architectural drawings made by celebrated architects like Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi.
Design: Jean Verville architecte. The IN 1 project brings architect Jean Verville to confront his reflections on his own perception of spatiality with the production of a model on a human scale. Abstract dimensional form produces architecture free from function and materiality.
Architects: tissellistudioarchitetti. The vc1 project has created a residential destination via a striking building facade: strong pure white bands – a la Guggenheim New York – run horizontally with deep recesses lined with dark fenestration.
Architects: AR Design Studio
AR Design Studio was approached by the clients who were looking to extend their holiday home on a cliff top on the South Coast. Half way through the planning process, the existing house catastrophically broke in half one night during a landslip.