Julian Harrap Architects LLP have just been awarded the commission to restore and extend the historic Museum De Lakenhal, in Leiden, Netherlands in collaboration with Dutch practice Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven Architects.
A diagonal brace, domineering two sides of the cube, was made for a reason and so it became a dominating element of a building structure. It is because the kindergarten, consisting of basement+ground floor+one floor, should be located near the existing building.
Geneva Dance Pavilion, building, Switzerland – design by Mauro Turin Architectes – the beginning of the project is marked by the abstraction of the gutter of the Place Charles-Sturm: Swiss building design.
New Yorker Hotel Student Commons: 481 8th Avenue and 34th Street, Manhattan. The New Yorker Hotel Student Commons occupies half of a 20,000-square-foot, full-floor renovation of the sixth floor of the New Yorker Hotel in midtown Manhattan.
Anti-Tectonics Beijing Design Week, China – images and news – Anti-Tectonics building, Pavilion building for 2013: architecture in China
Information Based Architecture, Dutch architects, Amsterdam, Holland, Netherlands: the IBA design studio is led by Mark Hemel + Barbara Kuit
Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group announces that the Southwark Council’s Strategic Planning Committee last night approved Carlyle’s planning application to replace the Sampson House data-centre and Ludgate House office building.
Gas Compressor Plant in Denmark – design by C. F. Møller, architects – Danish Gas architecture: Energinet Building, Denmark Infrastructure architecture
Metro is responsible for the construction and renovation of the old building “the warehouse” into modern and flexible office. “the warehouse” was designed in 1951 by architect Thage Möller.
These new residential buildings contain up/down duplex townhouses: the project combines strongly articulated blocks with a pleasant environment at street level.
JW3, London’s newest community and arts venue, is now open to the public. The newly constructed £12m building on the Finchley Road in Hampstead will become a destination venue for London, open to all who have an interest in Jewish life.
The fourteenth annual Glenn Murcutt Architecture Master Class will take place in Australia next July at ‘Riversdale’, the Boyd Education Centre on the shores of the Shoalhaven River south of Sydney.
C-Laboratory, Architects, Marco Casagrande, Finland + Taiwan – buildings, photos, architecture – Marco Casagrande, designs, C-Laboratory Architects
Although aspects of this building look perfectly normal – the straight tower, the repetitive fenestration – look at the podium, it has been jacked 36m above ground level. Why? The architects put forward their case which seems based on challenging tradition, “defying an architectural convention” but also on trying to ‘broadcast’ the virtual activities of the city’s financial market by being more visible, ‘glowing at night’.
The new headquarters for the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) has been completed in Shenzhen’s Central Business District. The 180,000 m2 building is OMA’s next completed building in China after the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing.
Taking place over 3rd-5th October, the project is reimagining urban and rural landscapes with the creative team collaborating with German choreographer Pipo Tafel to develop unique responses to each performance location.
Jean-Claude Carrière Theatre, Montpellier, France design by A+Architecture – Jean-Claude Carrière Theatre Montpellier, French Arts building photos