Design: MBM Arquitectes
Intriguing Catalan architecture – a confident, expressive building by David Mackay / MBM. The ‘Design Hub’ is located on a sloping site beside Jean Nouvelle’s Agbar tower, and very close to the elevated roundabout of a busy motorway. The site is part of a future park which meant that only a small building footprint would be allowed at ground level with the rest of the building underground.
Foster + Partners architects have produced a majestic, elegant building for Jordan. The have taken the repetitive pattern and top-lit concept of their earlier Stansted Airport building and improved it with a wonderful treatment of concrete. The building is a heavyweight, concrete flowing but controlled – articulated by well-placed joints. It seems like a return to the serious concrete structures of the past.
Design: WOHA. Designed as a hotel and office in a garden, the project at Upper Pickering Street is a study of how we can not only conserve our greenery in a built-up high-rise city centre but multiply it in a manner that is architecturally striking, integrated and sustainable.
Design: MVRDV. Before a Korean pop-song became a global success on YouTube for the first time in history, MVRDV was commissioned to redefine a building on Gangnams chic Apgujung Road. The 1980s building was outdated in a street dominated by flagship stores. The transformation, which added an extra level, was completed in just 9 months.
Design: Snøhetta with Clark Nexsen: this new building serves both as NC State’s second main library and the intellectual and social heart of the university’s Centennial Campus. The Hunt Library also houses the Institute for Emerging Issues, a think tank led by former North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt, academic offices, visualization and digital media labs and an auditorium.
INGLASS 2014 Architecture Conference – INGLASS Warsaw 2014, with Patrik Schumacher, ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
Patrik Schumacher is partner at Zaha Hadid Architects. He joined in 1988 and has since been the co-author of many key projects. Together with Zaha Hadid he built up Zaha Hadid Architects to become a 400 strong global architecture brand.
HOK Architecture Office news archive for 2009 to 2013 – one of the world’s leading architects, strengthens its marketing function in London with the appointment of Robyn Gilmour as Senior Vice President, Marketing Principal.
Design: Kenji Architectural Studio. The house is designed for a couple, and is a wooden three stories house that is built at urban narrow site. Around the site is the mixed-use area where small houses, small factories, and small office buildings coexist together without any harmony.
How do you expand an L-shaped Eichler with the challenge of extending a long dark entry? Klopf Architecture’s solution, to design a light filled atrium in the hallway to open up the bedroom expansion with green plants, sky lights and a glass wall. Not to mention the thoughtfulness of a blind door with wood siding similar to the rest of the home.
BDP architects office news – The first raft of projects in China is now starting to complete with two civic projects in Suzhou ; updates for Appleton Academy Bradford, Yorkshire, northern England, UK
The winner of the International Competition for the architectural concept for the new building for National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) at Khodynskoe Pole in Moscow is Heneghan Peng Architects from Ireland.
The other two finalists were Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos from Spain and Russian architectural studio Mel.
The building designed by Frank Gehry brings together the full range of the architect’s methods, aesthetic codes and modes of expression, while representing a new stage in his work.
Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF). Design for a new headquarters for the country’s largest and oldest financial institution, Ziraat Bank, in a modern, suburban district of Istanbul. The two tower, over 400,000m² Ziraat Bank headquarters will be the centre‐piece of the new Istanbul International Financial Centre (IIFF).
Architects Laura Alvarez and Jarrik Ouburg win second prize at Europan Norway. Ås is a municipality part of the Oslo region whose population will double in the next 25 years. Currently a couple of buildings are located on the site: the house of Norwegian artist Odd Tandberg, the villa Åsheim House and an office building.
Design: Leo A Daly
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China and China Construction Industry Association have presented a Luban Prize, the country’s premier award for design and construction, to the Huijin International Center (HIC), a project designed by international architecture/engineering firm LEO A DALY.
Design: möhn + bouman, Architects. Centre for pastoral care in The Netherlands. The journey of a stable to a chapel; the story of this little building. Embedded deep in a beautiful landscape, itself shaped during the last ice age, this chapel embodies a peaceful and inspirational atmosphere.
The Victorian Coalition Government has announced the builder of a major warehousing development for the new state-of-the-art Epping Wholesale Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Market, Minister for Major Projects David Hodgett said today.
“Hansen Yuncken, an experienced Victorian-based construction company has been selected as the builder of market warehousing at Epping”.