Design: Benoy, architects. Seamlessly integrated to a high-end department store, entertainment tower and world-class concert hall, the retail development has established a shopping and entertainment destination to elevate the city.
Design: Fletcher Priest Architects. The new Ludgate project sets up a dialogue between two striking and complementary new buildings whilst reinstating and improving the public realm around it and new routes through the city block.
Design: Berarducci Architecture. Interior spaces inspired by the temples of Fushimi Inari in Kyoto. The project is conceived as a process, a sequence of steps and direction changes, which gradually reveal the interior.
Design: YH2 Architecture. On the banks of Lac Supérieur, 90 minutes north of Montreal, a mountain – once the property of a former religious congregation – now houses a creative and innovative model for integrating contemporary architecture in a natural environment.
Design: b.e architecture. Renovation and extension to a period home: contrasting the solidity of the existing sandstone house, the new addition is a gentle intervention that emerges quietly from the canopy of a beautiful, mature lemon-scented gum tree.
The project consists of a house design by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos with a large surface area, almost like a small village that seeks to reduce its presence in the natural environment away from white architecture from vernacular populations and approaching karstic phenomena.
Site-specific light installation by architectural office, spatial practice: the permanent fiber optic lighting installation flanks both sides of Kasuga Bridge creating the perception of indigo ink spilling into Shinmachi River.
Design: Taller ADC Architecture Office. A reinterpretation of the spec family house function in which a higher quality is given to the resident, with views of the recreational and social areas
Design: Batay-Csorba Architects. Addition and full interior renovation of an existing four-storey duplex: conversion into one 4,000 sqft family home. Located on a tree-lined street in the Yorkville neighborhood, a vibrant and historical cultural district.
Design: gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners. IT industrial operation center with adjacent high-rise office block in Guangzhou for one of the leading Chinese telecommunications companies: two high-rise buildings linked by a five-story plinth.
Design: PEÑA architecture. Former Kralings Museum at the Hoflaan transformed into a luxury apartment building: the building has three apartments. This one is on the second floor and contains 193 sqm with 25 sqm of outdoor space.
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.