An interactive installation to encourage unity, a portable dining space for refugees, an optical viewing device, and a project that links communities either side of Belfast’s Peace Wall will be exhibited in Liverpool and London next month as the result of the RIBA Beyond Borders open call.
Tigg + Coll Architects, winners of the Colander run competition to find architects for Theo and Oskar’s House, will work with Ballymore to deliver a light, spacious and barrier-free home for the Taussig family and their two young sons.
Architects: The Architectural Design and Research Institute of Harbin Institute of Technology. The functional layout design is mainly based on the rational organization of events and the environment space shaping during and after events to provide athletes and citizens with diverse activity spaces
Design by STGM Architects + CCM2 Architects in the borough of Pintendre on the outskirts of Lévis, the new 1,500 sqm fire station houses eight fire trucks.
Architect: Pernilla Johansson. Owing to the island’s dramatic weather and the cabin’s exposed position by the sea a low maintenance wood which would withstand all weather conditions was required.
Design: Mecanoo and MAYU – groundbreaking news: Tainan is a city born from a history of diverse cultures, peoples and traditions. The urban fabric holds memories from the 17th century European maritime trading, the Qing Dynasty Ruling, and the Japanese settlement of the early 1900s.
Design: architect Haim Dotan
Just 13 days after opening this spectacular Chinese bridge has closed. The world’s longest and highest glass bridge opened on August 22. It offers a panoramic view of the stunning Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon.
Design: Cottee Parker Architects. The Upper West Side project is a precinct in itself, a vertical suburb. In a prominent location at the edge of the city, the sculptural presence of its towers is analogous to sentinels guarding the city’s centre.
Architects: Bennetts Associate and Jump Studios announce the completion of No. 40 Chancery Lane, a large-scale commercial space in the historical heart of the Chancery Lane Conservation Area, London.
Architectural firm, Nico van der Meulen Architects commissioned to design this home according to the owner’s specifications. The brief to the architect was to create a single-storey home with an urban feel.
London’s status as the global capital of museums has been confirmed by a new study. With four museums in the global top 20 by visitor numbers in 2016, the capital has achieved first place in the global list jointly with Washington DC, which also has four entries in the top 20.
The final pour of concrete into the Northwest chimney marks the completion of the Battersea Power Station chimney rebuild. The four iconic chimneys have been rebuilt using the same construction technique as when they first graced London’s skyline.
Design: Caramel Architekten. Intimacy and retreat crated in this luxury property: a concrete ground floor and a light wood construction on the first floor. Vertical battens on the facade are made of impregnated grey fir wood.
3RW arkitekter from Bergen and NORD architects from Copenhagen won the competition in 2013 for a new healthcare centre in Randaberg, Norway, which is designed to be like a modern Norwegian hamlet.