Hilton London Bankside Hotel, UK
Interior Design: Chris Webb. Hilton Worldwide is for the first time offering a series of podcasts that will act as audio guides to landmark hotels within its European portfolio.
The Haven House in Bangalore, Shrinagar home
Design: Ashwin Architects. The special and informative starting point for this project is the plot size is just 21’ x 27’. To give you an idea of the size, it would be about the footprint of a double garage.
Dusai Resort & Spa in Sreemangal, Bangladesh
Architects: VITTI Sthapati Brindo Ltd. This Resort is the essence of traditional village design with its formation along the slope of the hills. Trees shape the setting of the cottages, thereby leaving the surrounding nature and contour site remain untouched.
Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition News
State funding vetoed for the beleaguered Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki building. This follows calls to re-run the design competition on another site.
Sosnowski Residence in Tempe, Arizona
Architect: Chen + Suchart Studio. Located in a neighborhood in Tempe, mostly concisting of buildings from the 1950s, the Sosnowski Residence takes the form of a courtyard house defined by three gray CMU walls at the main level and an exposed truss at the upper level that characterizes the project.
Hanover Page Mill in Palo Alto, California
Design: Form4 Architecture, USA. The Hanover Page Mill project was completed this year, and is an example in Silicon Valley of a LEED Platinum and net-zero electric energy office building leased at market rates.
Reception Pavilion for the National Assembly Quebec
Reception Pavilion for the National Assembly Quebec design by GLCRM and Provencher_Roy Architects, plus preservation of historic Parliament Building designed by Eugène-Étienne Taché
Temporary Courthouse Amsterdam Building
Architects: architectenbureau cepezed b.v. Recently Building G of the Amsterdam temporary courthouse was completed and taken into use. The interim-building was realized on the premises of the Parnas-complex on the Parnassusweg.
Kindergarten Valdaora di Sotto, South Tyrol
Design: feld72, architects. Subtly embedded in the village pattern, this new building involves typical local elements. In an area of boundaries and actual fences, the embracing unity of house and court forms a sense of security and ease.
Gdańsk Apartment Interior, Polish Flat Design
Design: Ideograf Architectural Studio. This contemporary Polish architecture project is an interior design of an apartment in Gdansk. The main architectural idea was to walk visitors through the rich history of the city
60 London Wall development, City offices property
Design: EPR Architects. Planning approval for reinventing an existing building to form 320,000sqft of prime grade A flexible workplace with roof terraces and 18,000sqft of retail space.
Drawing Show Exhibition A+D Museum Los Angeles
Drawing Show Exhibition at The Architecture + Design Museum Los Angeles. “Like many postmodern visual arts over the last 30 years, architectural drawing has sought to challenge or engage existing paradigms.”
Staab Residence in Scottsdale, Arizona
Architect: Chen + Suchart Studio, USA. This brief needed a plan that would edit out the immediate context of this neighborhood while focusing on distant views of the McDowell Mountains to the north and the valley to the south and southwest.
T3 Wood Building in Minneapolis, USA
Design by MGA – Michael Green Architecture, USA. This venture is an investment in both the past and future of Minneapolis and in the warehouse district’s rich history. The design objective for T3 was to build on the character of the past with a modern perspective.