Lower Lodge Gatehouse Bristol Building
Two year restoration of handsome Grade II listed gatehouse completed by Austin-Smith:Lord. The Gothic revival building was formerly on Historic England’s ‘Heritage at Risk’ register.
The Atrium Greenwood Plaza, North Sydney
Design: The Buchan Group, architects. The initial design concept was inspired by the stoma cell, incorporating discrete, varied zones to offer relief and contrast from the pace and rigid structure of the North Sydney business district.
A’ Design Awards & Competition Call 2016 – 2017
The International A’ (A-Prime) Design Award is the world’s largest event for design, innovation and creativity: it brings together the very best architects, designers, innovators, design press and institutions from countries across the globe.
Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building, Roxbury
Design: Mecanoo, Architects / Sasaki Associates. Winner of Harleston Parker Medal, Boston’s most prestigious architecture prize.. Three historic facades have been integrated into the all-sided complex with elegantly curved corners.
Music Arts and Cultural Quarter Sunderland
Design: Flanagan Lawrence, Architects. New auditorium building been granted planning approval and funding: Arts Council England awards a £6m grant through the National Lottery to the Sunderland Music, Arts and Culture (MAC) Trust towards the cost of the £8.2m building.
Wooden Supermarket in Liège, Belgium
Design: MDW ARCHITECTURE with H+G Architects. New sustainable wooden supermarket in Liège, a simple typology handled with ambition and craftiness, becomes a subtle operation of urban acupuncture that heals the place where it is built.
Katuaq Cultural Centre of Greenland Nuuk
Architects: Schmidt Hammer Lassen. When opened in 1997 the building provided for the first time a cultural and artistic meeting place for both locals, the international Inuit community and visitors from all over the world.
Kipco Tower Kuwait City Skyscraper
The 6-storey building has a sleek form that billows out. The curtain wall facade is peppered with primary coloured panels. Also known as the United Tower it was designed by KEO International Consultants with KPF.
Calton Hill Hotel Edinburgh Building
Design: Hoskins Architects. New architectural designs for the controversial proposed hotel at Edinburgh’s former Royal High School have been revealed, with a reduction in scale.
Newport Street Gallery London: Damien Hurst
Brick Awards winner, design by Caruso St John Architects, London. Conversion of a street of listed industrial buildings into a free public gallery for artist Damien Hirst. Winner of Stirling Prize 2016.
Galaxy Soho: Zaha Hadid Beijing, China
Distinctly urban building in China by Zaha Hadid Architects. The mass is broken down into four flowing asymmetric domes of different heights. Natural light pours down into the deep-plan floor-plates. Each building wraps around a glazed atrium lined with flowing bands of glass and white aluminium.
Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition in Shenzhen
Design: Coop Himmelblau, HSArchitects + GD-Lighting
Mocape’s surface materials of glass, perforated plate, and stone extend and twist along the steel structure, creating a complicated architecture full of vitality.
Living House in Lima Property
Design by Chetecortes Architects for a business family who spends a lot of time traveling, with a culture of fluidity and continuity of energy in their lives.
In and Between Boxes in Guangzhou
Architect: Atelier Peter Fong / LUKSTUDIO. Located in a residential neighborhood next to the Tianhe district in central Guangzhou, Atelier Peter Fong by Lukstudio revives an empty corner lot into both an office and a cafe.