Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore Wins World Building of the Year at World Architecture Festival Awards 2012: Largest climate-controlled glasshouses in the world help transform Singapore into a ‘City in a Garden’.
Hamburg-based architectural practice Störmer Murphy and Partners together with Matteo Thun & Partners have won the competition for the Grand Hotel “The Fontenay”, situated on the Alster riverside in Hamburg.
The prize is named after the world-renowned architect Berthold Lubetkin (1901-1990). Lubetkin’s daughter Sasha presented the winning architects with a unique cast bronze plaque, based loosely on her father’s design for the Penguin Pool at London Zoo.
The selection of materials is a key part of the scheme’s success. The black stained Siberian larch sits inconspicuously in the trees and contrasts with the white-washed internal woodwork.
New 75,000 sq ft King’s Cross Square is the final part of the £550m redevelopment of King’s Cross station. Redevelopment has helped to attract £2.2bn of private investment into a previously largely derelict and disused 67 acre site, including 2,000 new homes
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Architecture firm Goettsch Partners (GP) has won two recent design competitions in China for the Greenland Group, one of the country’s largest real estate developers.
Via Verde is a revolutionary mixed-use, mixed income residential development in the South Bronx. The project showcases high-quality innovative green design while also providing affordable housing for low and moderate income households.
A house built in the 1990s, a client who openly welcomes change and a team of architects who are able to give a new identity to a building. House N in Moscow speaks a clear and autonomous architectural language inside and out – with form and detail precisely in tune with other.
The house is situated on a corner lot in the typical 30’s district ‘de Elzent’ against the natural landscape of the river Dommel valley, in the center of Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
The Turbulences FRAC Centre, Orléans Contemporary Art Building, French Architecture The Turbulences FRAC Centre, France Orleans Building Development – design by Jakob+MacFarlane Architectes 25 + 2 Sep 2013 FRAC Centre Opening Design: Jakob+MacFarlane Architectes Location: Orléans, France The Turbulences FRAC Centre Orléans The Regional Fund for Contemporary Art in the Centre region (FRAC Centre) opens … Read more
The setting is the Stockholm archipelago, natural ground sloping gently down to the sea in the south, mostly open with a few trees and bushes.
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230 Halsey Street has been designed with bright classrooms full of natural light to promote learning and it is intended to become the center of an active, 24-hour neighborhood.
Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing is expanding its acclaimed list of architectural reference books with Superkilen – the first time that a public project is documented in such detail. The book celebrates the dawn of a new type of urban public space
Vinícola Cuna de Tierra / Cuna de Tierra winery: using the winery’s name as a concept driver (Cuna de Tierra) and its connection to the context, the design process explores the relationship between wine development, the site, the user and the main material in use.
The site of Taichung’s new Cultural Center still reflects its recent history as an airbase. Bulldozers move and gather broken slabs of runway concrete, the weeds growing among them testifying to the change which is occurring.