MOCAPE Shenzhen Building: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
Design: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, architects. New photos, taken by Duccio Malagamba, feature Shenzhen’s new cultural meeting point and a venue for architectural exhibitions by architect Wolf D. Prix.
Flipping Property Prices in London: House Value
We feature five “flipped” London properties which are on the market today, looking at the costs behind these projects, including renovations and stamp duties.
Power Lane House in Randwick
Architects: CHORD studio. The design brief asked to extend this house and still maintain and respect the design of the original house, particularly as viewed from the front street.
Hemmingford House in Quebec, Canada
Design: SIMARD architecture. In the immense landscape south of Montreal, a contemporary house has been built. Like a fieldstone unveiled between the furrows of a ploughed field, a stratified monolith of slate emerges from the earth.
Aquarium Office Complex in Gliwice, Poland
Design: Zalewski Architecture Group. The idea for this project involves changing the existing building to offices, building a new pavilion acting as the customer service and redesigning the landscape around the villa.
Derzhprom Building Kharkiv Monument Competition
Controversy from an architecture competition the Commemorative Monument for Freedom Square, in front of the Derzhprom Building: “Incompetence of the local authorities puts Europe’s first skyscraper complex in danger”.
Prado Museum in Madrid Building
Architects Foster + Partners and Rubio Arquitectura have won the international competition to rejuvenate and restore the historic Hall of Realms as a new addition to the Museo del Prado campus in Madrid.
Una Pavilion, São Sebastião, São Paulo
Design: Apiacás Arquitetos. Located in a residential condominium in Barra do Una (a beach located near São Paulo city), Cumaru wood pillars and beams strategically placed give greater freedom to the pivotal doors that make up the façade.
Casa da Arquitectura-Centro Português de Arquitectura
Casa da Arquitectura-Centro Português de Arquitectura will open in June 2017, in Matosinhos. The announcement came at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia
FAV 2016, Festival des Architectures Vives
The Festival des Architectures Vives is an architectural course dedicated to a wide audience that allow to discover or (re)discover emblematic sites in Montpellier and in La Grande Motte thanks to ephemeral projects created by young architects teams.
White Boxes Resort Mykonos Island, Cyclades
Architects: Potiropoulos+Partners. The resort buildings is arranged in the shape of an amphitheatre, with multiple levels in succession, like terraced fields on a hillside. Built in equal courses with intermediate voids, the modules of the rooms and suites create linear arrays reminiscent of drystone walls on a bigger scale.
Boos Beach Club Restaurant Bridel: Cafe
Design: Metaform architects
The new building is interwoven around the existing house, inspired by the Japanese art of origami. It resembles a folded sheet of paper that answers to the program requirements, while creating a relation with the old and opening up to the natural surroundings.
Residential Tower Antwerp
Design: C.F. Møller Architects + Brut Architecture and Urban Design. Architectural competition win for new residential and mix-use tower in Nieuw Zuid area in Antwerp, with a proposal that redefines residential high-rise as a vertical social community
Hoy Poy Studio in Perth office interior: vittinoAshe
Design: vittinoAshe: this small office space has been both duly and dually considered. Carefully thought about because of its former use by artists-in-residence and the resultant decay within a heritage fabric.