Design: MODU with Geotectura, architects. A plaza pavilion for Israel’s national design museum, Design Museum Holon, shows that design can do more than fulfill a public need: it can foster engaging public experiences.
Design: Arte Charpentier Architectes. The building design works with the colourful geometrical fields that surround it. A inventive metal totem orientates people and provides a focus to the architectural design.
Hodder + Partners news. St Clare’s College Oxford building, England, one of 20 outstanding buildings shortlisted for the Wood Awards 2016, featuring some of the UK’s best timber architectural designs.
Design: DADA Partners. Set on verdant land dotted with large mature trees, this house is nestled – much like a fork – between three large trees. The building is conceived as an assembly of two fairly rectangular blocks, connected by a narrow, transparent, staircase block.
Design: Benjamin Garcia Saxe, architects – Caribbean coast architecture uses simple ideas for using rain water, temperature control through cross ventilation, and large overhangs; an aesthetic based on traditional tropical architecture of the Caribbean
Design: Peter Ruge Architekten
Cost-efficient building in the countryside, a detached dacha for a German-Russian family of musicians. Surrounded by lakes and forests on a 6,500 sqm site this is a one-storey wooden cabin with a spacious living, dining and kitchen area.
The new landscape in front of The National Gallery of Denmark is designed as a melting pot – where art can mix with urban life. The urban space is created by Danish POLYFORM Architects and Dutch landscape architects Karres en Brands.
Design: Wilson Architects + Donovan Hill Architects
Conceived as a series of interconnected places to enable a community of research. From the intimate to the expansive, the building enables intensity of scientific research and a range of opportunities for collaboration.
Design: gmp, architects. Building combines restrained gesture with succinct appearance: the building for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein ballet company was constructed on the historic site of the former Rheinbahn depot ‘am Steinberg’.
Design: Shaun Lockyer Architects. Ladrillo is Spanish for ‘brick’, and takes its cues from the Spanish Mission architectural style of the original Red Hill cottage. Utilising textured brick, recycled breezeblocks and original decorative plaster, the architecture focuses on textures
Design: Ian Shaw Architekten
Cast in-situ concrete house, dramatically sited on a hillside above Schriesheim, in Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany. From its elevated position the elemental two-tier building offers panoramic views of the surrounding countryside.
Design: OB Architecture. Renovation of a 1930s house in Winchester by Winchester architects: adding a dramatic glazed living, kitchen and dining space. Together with its extensive rear garden it has been transformed into a modern family home.
This Copenhagen bridge project design by Olafur Eliasson celebrates pedestrians. It reflects the daily life and intimacy that you find around the canal in the Christianshavn neighbourhood, its houseboats and sailing boats, the unique life on the ramparts
Design: Hiramoto Design Studio, Architects. Located on the second floor of glass curtain wall building, facing main street of a fashionable neighborhood. As they have a great view from this tenant’s window, “building a connection with the neighborhood” spontaneously becomes the architects’ design challenge.