Design: Paul Rudolph ; redevelopment by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects (GSAA) – completely renovated and expanded Paul Rudolph Hall at Yale University, has a LEED Gold certification. The 114,000 sqft building, constructed of cast-in-place concrete in the Brutalist style, was formerly known as the Art and Architecture Building.
Design: la SHED architecture. Perched on a steeply inclined surface over swamps, the single story residence slides gracefully between the trees and is only hardly visible from the street. As per the occupants’ and architect’s wishes, the house has a dual relationship with its environment; from the outside, it is camouflaged in its setting and is as discreet as possible.
St Nicholas House site news. New plans for a £107m development in Aberdeen city centre unveiled by developers. The designs will replace the former council headquarters with an office, hotel and retail complex known as Marischal Square
Design: Anik Péloquin, architect. The environment of this former stationmaster house has radically changed in recent decades. On the west side, the railways have given way to a big park with trees that have since matured. On the east side, there is now a suspended highway that cuts through the city.
Launch of leading developer Century Properties’ flagship lifestyle and retail destination, Century City Mall, design by eco-architect Jason Pomeroy of Pomeroy Studio: shopping mall development
Design: Seungmo Lim. Pure Crystal is a special room of Boutique Hotel the Designers in Jongno, Seoul. Pure Crystal is a room filled with sparkling glow and delicate texture of crystal. Continued smooth surface and edge of furnishings and walls amplifies the “flexibility” of the 31㎡ space. Projections of furnishings on walls imbued with light make boundary vague and expand the dimension to grant a unique experience to the guests.
Design: Sheppard Robson. The progression of the second phase of the project will create 239 dwellings, forming part of the award-winning new community positioned to the east of central Harlow in Essex. Designed for client Bellway Homes Ltd. in conjunction with landowners Newhall Projects Ltd., the brief called for a design that moved away from generic volume housing, creating a project that used high-quality architecture to build a new neighbourhood in this rural location.
Design: KSR Architects and Folio Design. KSR Architects and Folio Design (interiors) have completed an unusual development in Hampstead, located partly under two existing conjoined houses and below their gardens
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. This is the fifth hotel tower at City of Dreams in Cotai, Macau. With 40 floors and a gross floor area of 150,000 sqm, the tower houses around 780 guestrooms, suites and sky villas. The hotel also includes a variety of meeting and event facilities, gaming rooms, lobby atrium, restaurants, spa, and sky pool. The tower building design resolves the many complex programs for the hotel within a single cohesive envelope.
Design: A-CERO Architects – the tower stands like a stylized stem with a light torsion, creating the elegant movement that characterizes the project. The base has the form of a pointed arch with smooth bends, imitating the shape of the waves in the Gulf Sea.
The structure is solved with “V” form unions between the different parts in the plan view. The installations and elevators are located in the central core. Interior gardens are present in all the common zones, improving the air quality and working as natural temperature regulators.
Design: Foster + Partners / Heller Manus Architects. In a joint venture, TMG Partners, one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s largest mixed-use property developers, and Northwood Investors LLC, a leading privately-held global real estate investment firm, announce the selection of Foster + Partners and Heller Manus Architects as architects for the approximately 2 million sqft mixed-use development in San Francisco.
Atelier Kempe Thill Architects, Netherlands – Dutch architecture studio info and images – Holland buildings, Netherlands architect firm
Design: Andy Martin Architects
A contemporary residential project designed by Andy Martin Architects: an ambitious redevelopment of an existing mechanics garage.
Mews 02 is a single residence set in Belsize Park; the owners, a musician and his designer wife, wanted this existing mechanics garage to be converted to a 4 level family home, with the emphasis on the entertaining areas and with the ability to create private compartments over for sleeping.
Design: OIKIOS GmbH. With its oval form and a metal façade that almost seems to be flowing, the main building of the InterContinental Davos Hotel has become an unmistakable new landmark. The undulating envelope wraps itself tightly around the structure, leading to an interplay between open and closed surfaces which appears different from every angle.
Design: Architettura Matassoni. Project for a single-family residential building, currently under construction in the hills of Arezzo. The house is built around a patio on which are opened the most important environments of the living area; the transparency of the walls allows the visual perception as an extension of interior space.
Design: Wingårdhs. Emporia is first and foremost an urban planning project in which offices, housing, and retail come together in a mixed-use development in Malmö. The main idea of the winning competition entry was to hide inward-looking retail behind a wreath of residential and commercial buildings.
Where will I live? Plus…Writing on architects plus their role in the imminent global Baby Boom housing crisis, I have purchased two houses in my lifetime. The first was on Capitol Hill, in Downtown, Washington, D.C. which had a landmark plaque posted on the entrance. It was a beautiful house 100 years old where my former wife and I raised two children.