Design: Dr Margot Krasojevic architect. The design for a solar-powered, perpetual motion, hydrofoil Trimaran yacht, commissioned by HoldenManz wine estate, Cape Town. The trimaran has a folding wingsail for a better lift to drag ratio, the sail’s frame is constructed from carbon fibre.
Design: BFTA Mimarlik, architects. Located in Pendik, a rapidly-growing business district on the Asian side of Istanbul, this 60m tall tower building is on the edge of the oldest highway of the city, with 77 offices on 20 floors.
Design: Sheppard Robson, Architects. The £15.3m college building in Everton, Liverpool, is the first school delivered using an innovative design solution to create architecturally engaging schools on limited budgets.
Architects: Insula architettura e ingegneria srl. With the aim to read the space as a narrow yet polyhedric venue, Insula has created diverse and unique dining environment.
Design: Santiago Calatrava architect. The Science & Technology building will be the cornerstone of the new campus, and will establish the design scheme for all buildings within phase I of the campus master plan.
Design: Wingårdhs, architects. Krokslätt Factories is an industrial area south of Gothenburg that is registered as a cultural heritage site. The large brick textile factories are now being expanded with a new development in which the primary focus is on sustainability.
Design: [mavarq] Marco Velázquez ARQ. Located at Amanali Golf and Nautical club in the city of Tepeji del Rio, Hidalgo, a 45 minute drive from Mexico City. Two adjacent plots of 14 m length by 36 m depth each, with the back facing North. The site has a continuous slant of 4 m from front to back.
Design: Paul Sangha Landscape Architecture. The abstracted shape of the corten, in conjunction with strategic boulder placement along the foreshore played an integral role in dissipating wave energy and ultimately, facilitating the deposition of sand to enhance foreshore and create habitat for flora and fauna.
Design: Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos. Logical reaction to the surroundings, to the economic context (crisis) and social context (peripheral neighborhood in a ravine); to the climate (over-exposed latitude to UV rays); and to the requirements of the developer.
Roy-Lawrence Residence in Quebec design by Chevalier Morales Architectes outside the village of Sutton, in Quebec’s eastern townships: this residence is set in a vast estate very much impregnated with the legacy of a Swiss immigrant family that came to Canada in the 1930s.
Design: KANVA, architects. A small vacant lot located at the epicenter of Montreal student life, just north of the McGill University’s Milton gates, was the basis of the building design
Design: christos pavlou architecture
Conceived as a place of entertainment, play and hosting guests this pool house resting in the garden acts as an extension to a main house: together they form a large L-shape configuration.
The Royal College of Art announce that Herzog & de Meuron has won the invited competition to appoint architects for its new state-of-the-art £108m Battersea South campus.
Design: Gehry Partners LLP with architect Daryl Jackson Robin Dyke. A key construction challenge was the unique, undulating brick façade, comprising of 320,000 bricks, all laid by hand in situ. The bricks, a reference to Sydney’s sandstone heritage, will sit on top of a steel substrate.