Concrete Memorial Guizhou Landscape
Architects: West-line studio. The Huangpi Dong combat site, located in Tiantai Town, not far from Chishui City. This area is a well known “red tourism” spot in south-west China.
Grove at Grand Bay, Miami Apartments
Architects: BIG. Twisting towers mark Danish architect’s first condominium completed in the U.S. More than half of the project’s 98 units are owned by domestic end-users.
Gufunes Development Reykjavik
Design: FELIXX with JVantSpijker. These Dutch design offices, with Orri Steinarsson, won a international urban design competition in Iceland. Strategic redevelopment of a coastal area of 140 hectares.
Amelia House in Toronto property
The house design by POST Architectureis located on heritage protected Amelia Street, as are most streets in the neighbourhood of Cabbagetown in Toronto. As a result the only changes possible to the street-facade were period details typical of the Victorian era
Huafa & City Hub in Wuhan, China
Architect: Qin Yue-Ming. The brief was to create a building connected ib style to Wuhan. Research of the local culture was conducted and sparkling ripples in the East Lake after rain inspired the designers and led them to the answer—water
B.Amsterdam Office Building by NEXT architects
B.Amsterdam is a pioneering business environment for innovative entrepreneurship, co-designed by NEXT architects. They transformed a large, empty 18.000 m2 office building into an ecosystem with numerous facilities to connect startups, creative entrepreneurs and established companies.
musée du Louvre bookstore / giftshop
Architects: RDAI Architecture / Gare du Nord Architecture. After two years of work as part of the “Pyramid project”, this new store will occupy the entire Allée du Grand Louvre, between the Carrousel entrance and the Pyramid in early December.
Chetian Cultural Center Guizhou
Architects: West-line studio. The cultural center is located in Chetian Village, in the Guizhou province, in South-West China. The village has more than 400 years of history and is famous for its ‘stone houses’ built with local materials.
Coach House in Toronto property
Design: POST Architecture. The Coach House is named for the history of its site – built where an original, century-old coach house once stood, stabling horses and housing carriages.
British Pavilion Venice: Architecture
This year’s British Pavilion exhibition Home Economics at the Venice Architecture Biennale received more than 145,000 visitors.
VCS – Unesco Visitor Center Sesto, Italy
Design: AllesWirdGut, Architects. Three edgy structures provide the new iconic entrance to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Dolomites. Fanning out along the southern edge of the square, the three volumes frame the space.
RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards 2016
The winners of the 2016 RIBA President’s Medals were announced at a ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in central London on the 6th December 2016.
Artillery Mansions in Westminster, London
Design: FORMstudio. Designed and built in the 1990s, the original layout of this central London flat conformed to the standard cookie cutter solution. Defined almost entirely by compliance with regulations and conservative market convention.
De Gaspé House Montreal, Villeray home
Design: la SHED architecture. Situated in the centre of the Villeray district, the De Gaspé House project consisted of the major renovation of an existing building that changed most of its original characteristics.