Brent Council has resolved to grant planning consent to UNITE, the UK’s leading developer and manager of student accommodation, for a c. 220,000 sqft student accommodation scheme on Olympic Way, adjacent to Wembley Stadium
Design: NatureHumaine. This project was completed for a developer/home builder at the intersection between Coleraine Street and a laneway in Montreal’s Point St-Charles neighborhood. The program for this project required 2 row-homes on an 8.7m wide lot.
The Eliza Apartments by Tony Owen Partners has just been completed in Sydney. Designed to be Sydney’s most prestigious and progressive address. We sought a building to fit within the historic context of the area yet was an unmistakeably contemporary and challenging design, combining classic 20th century style with parametric design tools to create a sustainable iconic CBD landmark.
The Collection Pavilion at Shanghai Auto Museum, Shanghai-Anting, China, a permanent exhibition about the milestones in automobile development from 1900 to 1975. ATELIER BRÜCKNER created a spacious room narrative representing an exclusive parking deck which displays 39 historical cars over 2300 square metres.
Design: Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, Austria: EYE Film Institute Netherlands in Amsterdam includes a cinematography museum formerly called Filmmuseum, founded in 1952
Foreign Office Architects – FOA key buildings. Farshid Moussavi + Alejandro Zaera Polo, London, UK. The architecture practice was founded in 1995 and lasted until 2011. Their major work is Yokohama Ferry Terminal in Japan, which brought this design studio to worldwide attention.
This modernist architecture design by Alfonso Architects combines new construction and renovation: a 25,000 sqft building forming a sanctuary, administrative offices and classrooms. Also, two existing single level buildings were renovated and the exterior space including lighting and landscape was redesigned. The architect states, “The challenge was to establish an intimate church campus by creating a new exterior courtyard that would act as a catalyst for community interaction and as the physical nexus joining new and existing buildings.”
Design: KieranTimberlake Associates. Positioned between a dense grove of loblolly pines and a lush foreground of saltmeadow cordgrass and the bay, Loblolly House seeks to deeply fuse the natural elements of this barrier island to architectural form. The timber foundations are at once pragmatic because they minimize the disruption to the ground, and poetic because the dwelling is literally founded on the tree. At the same time, the north, south and east elevations are of the forest. The design of the staggered vertical rain screen was literally composed over a site photograph to evoke the abstraction of solids and voids of the forest wall.
Design: von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp)
In the southern Chinese city of Dongguan – a city of several million – a basketball stadium has been completed to plans by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp). The building can be seen from afar and is a landmark that provides identity and orientation to the people in the new district of Liaobu.
Design: Diamond Schmitt Architects
A ground-breaking ceremony today marks a new chapter in the 150-year life of St. Jerome’s University at University of Waterloo. It also marks a new collaborative design process to realize a campus expansion project.
Design: Oppenheim Architecture + Design – La Muna, a complete renovation and minor addition of one of the first homes built in the ultra-exclusive enclave of Red Mountain in Aspen, Colorado. 30 years of haphazard of this rustic ski chalet with all its imperfections—an homage to the Japanese sensibility of wabi sabi. Clad in reclaimed regional wood, stone and steel the home is intended to make a minimal impact on the natural resources and merge effortlessly with its idyllic surroundings of forest, stream and mountain.
A team around KCAP Architects&Planners selected as one of three finalists in the competition for the International Financial Center (IFC) in Moscow. IFC is a 460 ha mixed-use development project located in Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye and includes the construction of offices, housing and hotels, as well as commercial and social infrastructure.
Design: Architettura Matassoni. The set is strongly characterized by large elements of uptake of natural light that they become really towers and outer bearing elements of the composition; the whole is such a device to selection of the natural light, oriented so as to optimize the internal visual comfort.
Organiser: Arquideas
Arquideas informs you the launching of the NOA South America 2014 architecture competition
The Amazon is a vast region located in the central northern part of South America comprised of the Amazon Basin rainforest.
Design: Nicholas Hare Architects LLP
The University of Cambridge Department of Engineering was founded in 1875 and has a well-deserved reputation for academic creativity and rigour, attracting the best academics and students from around the world. In order to accommodate these activities the department badly needs additional research space on its already busy site.
Recently, 2013 AIM Competition “Post Earthquake Reconstruction, Ya’an Sichuan – Rebuild Panda’s hometown from the earthquake” has announced the winners of the four awards.
The Ya’an Earthquake occurred at 08:02 Beijing Time (00:02 UTC) on April 20, 2013. The epicenter was located in Lushan County, Ya’an, Sichuan, about 116 km (72 mi) from Chengdu along the Longmenshan Fault in the same province heavily impacted by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
CANactions Idea Competition + Workshop in Kiev, Ukraine. Maidan, among other things, has brought Ukrainians to the understanding that every city is being built by its citizens. We are the masters of our own destiny. Today’s events in Ukraine make us ponder on our history, public attitude, values, freedom, responsibility for our decisions, our lives and our surrounding.
With this competition, we venture to convert maximum energy generated by revolutionary wave to Urban Ideas.