LSE Global Centre for the Social Sciences Competition

LSE Global Centre for the Social Sciences Competition

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has chosen Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) to design its new £90m Global Centre for Social Sciences (GCSS).

They were selected as the winner from five architect teams shortlisted via an architectural competition organised by LSE with the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects).

Florey Design Competition Oxford Shortlist

The Florey, Oxford

Shortlist Architects for Renewal of Oxford Modernist Landmark. The Queen’s College today announced the six teams invited to submit proposals to update the Grade II listed Florey building in order to provide modern facilities and achieve exemplary energy design.

Royal Docks Cable Car: London River Crossing

Cable Car Royal Docks, River Crossing London, Emirates Air Line Project Royal Docks Cable Car : New London River Crossing East London Dock Building, England, UK – design by Aedas, Architects 19 Nov 2013 The Structural Awards 2013 This project is one of the winners of The Structural Awards 2013. photograph : Luke Hayes (left) … Read more

The Structural Awards 2013 Winners News

Taizhou Bridge, China

The winners of The Structural Awards 2013 announced. The Awards, organised each year by The Institution of Structural Engineers, celebrate the world’s most talented structural designers and their indispensable contribution to the built environment.

Central China TV Beijing building, OMA

Central China TV Beijing Building, OMA

Once completed, the CCTV building will transform the usually inaccessible environment of media and television production and give access to the public via the ‘Visitor’s Loop’, a dedicated path of circulation.

Zaryadye Park Moscow Design Competition

Zaryadye Park Competition, Moscow

Diller Scofidio + Renfro wins Zaryadye Park competition. In Moscow, on the 12th November 2013, the winner was announced for the international competition to develop the landscaping and architectural concept of Zaryadye Park. This was the consortium headed by the architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York).

University of Exeter Forum Project, Devon

University of Exeter Forum Project Devon building

University of Exeter Forum – spectacular new hub for students designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects. The £48m project provides a new entrance for the University’s Streatham campus and houses new student facilities and teaching accommodation beneath a soaring timber-framed ETFE and copper roof

BarentsKrans Offices, Den Haag Law Firm

BarentsKrans Offices, Den Haag

New home for famous law firm in The Hague, the Netherlands. A successful collaboration between the renowned law and notary firm BarentsKrants and the Amsterdam firm Hofman Dujardin Architects has resulted in a remarkable building renovation in The Hague

Brunner Clerkenwell London Showroom

Brunner Showroom Clerkenwell

Luxury furniture showroom breathes new life into historic Clerkenwell warehouse. International high-end furniture company Brunner has opened its new London headquarters to the public. Designed by McDowell+Benedetti, the showroom and offices occupy a large 3-storey Victorian warehouse space on Rosebery Avenue, near Exmouth Market in Clerkenwell.

Lajeunesse Residence Montréal, Quebec home design

Lajeunesse Residence Montréal, Quebec

Lajeunesse Residence. “We were hired by a young couple to do a complete renovation of a house built by the clients grandfather, now housing its third generation of the same family. They wanted to combine the two existing apartments into a single family house on two levels.”

FC Sevastopol Football Stadium Building

FC Sevastopol Football Stadium building Ukraine

Sevastopol Football Stadium Building, Ukraine – architectural project of new football stadium for FC Sevastopol by Artur Kupriichuk, built on the site of demolished stadium “Chaika”.

Maggies Northeast: Cancer Care Newcastle

Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre Newcastle

Maggies Cancer Caring Centres are for anyone affected by cancer. They are drop-in centres where people, including patients, friends and family can get the comprehensive support they need to help them to live with, through and beyond cancer.