Design: Hans van Heeswijk Architects. Netherlands’ biggest collection of modern realist art, housed in the former town hall of Gorssel. This building has undergone a transformation with new wings for galleries behind the existing building.
Design: HOK with Arup. Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh attend officially open the Francis Crick Institute, a centre of excellence in the field of biomedical research, close to St Pancras International and King’s Cross railway stations.
Design: Klopf Architecture. The clients wanted multi-generational living and extended spaces in the new house, but all parties agreed that the house should respect the neighborhood and blend in with the other Eichlers
Design: Di Vece Arquitectos and Francisco Morales Dufour. The concept is to create a processional scheme, a peripheral pathway around the building that promotes an introspective process in preparation for the religious ceremony and for a personal spiritual seclusion.
This Turkish winery building design by CM Mimarlik includes production and storage sections as well as service programmes such as laboratories and offices. In addition to this there is a 21 room hotel and spa program.
Associated architects SO – IL and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson announce the opening of their collaborative design effort at UC Davis. In keeping with the free-thinking, experimental legacy of the UC Davis School of Art, the light-filled, multi-use building is designed to further the educational mission of the museum.
Design: KZ Architecture. An artist’s studio addition to an existing home serves as a catalyst to transform a back yard into a series of terraced outdoor rooms, pulling an indoor lifestyle out into the subtropical climate. Nestled between mature oak specimens in the front and a lake in the rear.
The first new law school in Canada in 30 years opened its new home at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia. The building design by Diamond Schmitt Architects revitalizes an existing campus building with an iconic two-storey addition.
Design: Denton Corker Marshall, architects. Lendlease’s newest urban regeneration project has taken a major step forward with the sale of its first commercial tower, One Melbourne Quarter, to the Lendlease-managed Australian Prime Property Fund Commercial (APPF Commercial).
Science Island is a project in Kaunas, Lithuania designed as an icon of the paradigm between the natural landscape, mankind’s intrinsic curiosity of the complexity of the universe, and the responsibility human have within it by Alper Derinbogaz.
Design: Tengbom, Architects. Envac’s waste collection station in the district of Stora Ursvik, just north of Stockholm, has become the first industrial building in Sweden to secure BREAAM certification after it received the coveted ‘Excellent’ rating.
Architects: Turnbull Griffin Haesloop. The location for this house is a meadow with magnificent oaks, gentle slopes to a spring fed pond creating an unusually verdant landscape. The clients requested that the house be suitable for outdoor/indoor summer living.
Design: Daniel Marshall Architect. The site for this residence was a steep basin sloping down to the north east facing a sheltered bay on the eastern side of Waiheke Island. Two 100 year old Pohutakawa trees marked the transition from the earth to the sea.
Design: Architects of Invention. This design proposes a church with a vertical emphasis, creating a distilled space for religious ceremonies, and an accessible venue for the community to participate in a wide range of activities both day and night.