Amarin Apartment Village, Croatia

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Amarin Apartment Village

Design: 3LHD Architects

Amarin Apartment Village is located north of the city of Rovinj, surrounded by lush vegetation. Next to the existing 272 apartments, the old substandard ones were removed from the site and 190 new were built in their place. The new buildings location is partly determined by the existing pedestrian paths that continue into the new project; and by the plots gentle slope from north to south. The Village was conceived to have a high quality intimate outdoor space that accompanies each apartment as well as a comfortable interior.

RIAS Awards 2014: Buildings, Architects

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Charlotte Square offices

The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has announced a 27 strong shortlist for its 2014 awards. 83 buildings range in scale from £26k for a little garden pavilion to £125m for a nationally important entertainment arena. This architecture award is now the single most important recognition of architectural achievement in Scotland

MobiVersum in Autostadt, Wolfsburg

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Mobiversum 2

Design by J. MAYER H. Architects

In 2013, J. MAYER H. designed MobiVersum as a new interaction surface for young visitors to Autostadt Wolfsburg, integrated as part of the overall context of Autostadt “People, Cars, and What Moves Them.”

New Central Bank of Libya Building Design

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Central Bank Libya

Design: KAMJZ, architects. The reborn state of Libya needs now all the efforts to address the negative legacy of the past decade.The Central Bank of Libya as one of the key institutions in the country could act as a showcase of a successful transformation in a new economic system with stability, independence and safety as the key words in this process. This building proposal focuses on implementing them in the core of the design.

Manchester Central Library Redevelopment News

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Manchester Central Library

Design: Ryder Architecture. Through a series of controlled but fundamental interventions, Manchester Central Library is being transformed, updated and sympathetically refurbished on the existing site and within the existing building envelope.

eVolo Skyscraper Competition 2014 Winners

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Launchspire

Winners of the eVolo Skyscraper architecture competition, established to recognize outstanding ideas for vertical living through the novel use of building technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations.

The first place was awarded to Yong Ju Lee from the United States for his project “Vernacular Versatility”. The proposal reinterprets traditional Korean architecture in a contemporary mixed-use high-rise building.

Cathedral of Christ the Light, Oakland, California

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Cathedral of Christ the Ligh

Design: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). Set on a prominent, two-block site overlooking Oakland’s Lake Merritt, the 1350-seat cathedral building is the centerpiece of a 226,000-sqft complex that includes a mausoleum, conference center, administrative offices, bishop’s and clergy residences, bookstore, café, and community-serving ministries.
Within the cathedral, the experience of light and space, rather than traditional iconography, instills a deep sense of sacredness.

New Media Campus for Axel Springer Berlin

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New Media Campus for Axel Springer

BIG + Bollinger+Grohmann + Man Made Land +Topotek 1 + Kardoff Ingenieure + Wenzel+Wenzel are winners, along with Buro-OS and OMA, of the new Media Campus for AXEL SPRINGER in Berlin, Germany, on the site of the former Berlin Wall

HOTO FUDO Japan: Yamanashi Building

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HOTO FUDO, Japan

Design: Takeshi Hosaka Architects. This Japanese noodle bar building seems to belong to such natural objects as mountains and clouds. It is made from soft geometry, which will not arise from the figures like quadrangles and circles. By continuously operating innumerable polygon mesh points, we have determined the shape that clears the conditions such as the consistency as shell construction and the undulations that ward off rainwater in spite of its free geometry.

Zhongxun Times in Chongqing, China

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Zhongxun Times 3

Architect: 10 Design. This mixed use office and retail development sits centrally within the new Danzishi Central Head Quarters in Chongqing, that sits on the banks of the Yangtze River. The brief was to create an interactive retail environment that would interact and reflect with the rich topography that Chongqing is renowned for.

Hanimaadhoo Airport Maldives building

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Hanimaadhoo Airport

The new Hanimaadhoo International Airport is located on an island with very limited land mass for an international airport of this size. With airfield infrastructure consuming nearly all the available land the concept of a “floating terminal” has been selected by the Government for its innovative, exciting and eco-friendly approach. The proposed building is built entirely on stilts over water without reclamation to preserve the existing environment and the natural coastline.

Heritage Lottery Fund Scotland Grants

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Theatre Royal in Dumfries

Scotland’s oldest working theatre and concert hall take centre stage thanks to Heritage Lottery investment. The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) announced support totalling almost £2.7million to help secure the futures of the Theatre Royal in Dumfries, St Cecilia’s Hall Edinburgh, Dunoon Burgh Hall, and Kirkcudbright Art Gallery.

Barrel House Tavern: Sausalito Building

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Barrel House Tavern

Located on one of the most scenic waterfront lots in Sausalito, Barrel House Tavern occupies 5,000 sqft on Bridgeway Avenue. CCS Architecture receives a IIDA Northern California Chapter Honor Award for this building. With 140 seats, the restaurant features an enormous Carrera marble bar, a cozy lounge, wood fired pizza oven, and waterfront seating with breathtaking views of the Bay and San Francisco beyond.

Villa Areopagus: Costa Rica Residence

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Costa Rican Residence

Design: PARAVANT ARCHITECTS with SAAR Arquitectura. This building was planned as a retirement residence for a client from Hollywood, California: the design focused on creating a home that is harmoniously integrated into the landscape of the surrounding Costa Rican mountains.

The Old Mine in Wałbrzych, Poland

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Old Mine 5

Design: Nizio Design International. Multimedia museum exhibitions, Poland’s most modern spaces dedicated to culture, visual arts, and family entertainment are but a part of the plans to develop the Old Mine in Wałbrzych.

Goldsmiths Music Studios London

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Goldsmiths Music Studios 1

Design: Fraser Brown Mackenna Architects. A new state-of-the-art music studio designed for Goldsmiths, University of London: officially launched by Radiohead’s producer Nigel Godrich