In the 125 years since William Le Baron Jenney’s ten-storey Home Insurance Building in Chicago became the world’s first skyscraper, the spectacle of soaring towers has become increasingly common wherever land is scarce, allowing cities to stack life ever taller, denser and more dynamic.
Architects: CAS. Crepe Bechamel modern restaurant serves with its elegance for it has gained power through its fresh interior fashion, achieved by Comelite Architecture & Structure.
Design: Luigi Rosselli Pty Ltd – Architects. Shoulder to shoulder with other apartment buildings, the original 1920s two-storey flats were transformed into a four storey block with a basement carpark and cellar, a ground floor garden apartment and a two-storey penthouse.
Klopf Architecture, Outer Space Landscape Architects, Sezen & Moon Structural Engineer and Flegels Construction updated a classic Eichler open, indoor-outdoor home.
Design: Wilson Architects. In contrast to conventional designs employed by clinics, this $8M facility has introduced vertical gardens, fish ponds and an atrium to encourage a feeling of healing and rest.
Architects: Snøhetta. Building extension based on idea of art hovering above a transparent base. The new space houses a children’s workshop at ground level with floor-to-ceiling windows, located under a cantilevered hall covered in a dynamic metal façade.
Planning approval for building design by John Puttick Associates – the winner of the RIBA architecture competition to create a youth centre alongside this Brutalist building, a Grade II structure.
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United States ranked as number 1 among the 88 represented countries, followed by Italy, England, Japan, Brazil, China, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong and Turkey which took the top positions in 2016.
Design: C.DD, architects
This is a cubic architectural installation of 3m x 3m x 3m. This is not a large space; however, it carries the designers’ great affection and thinking for their hometown Foshan.
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Architects: HENN
The idea with the office areas is to attract tenants from the fields of research and technology. In contrast to the traditional, massive plinth construction, the high-rise buildings stand in a public space where paths and squares interlock with the surrounding green areas in the city.
An old Brisbane dilapidated cottage has been transformed to form the heart of a new entertainment and retail hub called the Hawthorne Deluxe Precinct following a $3.5 m refurbishment and redesign.
Design: Ben Herzog, Architect. The architects added a new stair bulkhead to the roof and a roof deck with embedded lights, removed a 2-story portion of the rear structural wall and replaced it with glass and aluminum panels
