Sunset Parklet, San Francisco Streetscape

Sunset Parklet San Francisco

Design: INTERSTICE Architects. Public amenity designed for two local community-oriented businesses in the Outer Sunset district on the Judah light-rail transit line. The architects took on the controversial 50 ft long site as a pro-bono project.

Connect Parkville House Melbourne

Connect Parkville House

Design: Steffen Welsch Architects. In Connect Parkville we pursue the idea of “stitching together” urban fabric with “quiet architecture”, informed by Austrian architect Hermann Czech’s “architecture as background”.

China Philharmonic Hall Beijing Building: MAD

China Philharmonic Hall Beijing Building

Design: MAD architects. This Chinese concert hall building was designed in collaboration with renowned acoustic expert Yasuhisa Toyota, and will be the orchestra’s first permanent residency.

Addiriyah Contemporary Art Center, KSA

Addiriyah Contemporary Art Center Building

Design: Schiattarella Associati, Architects. Two international awards for Addiriyah Contemporary Art Center project in Saudi Arabia: ‘Concept Winner’ at this year’s ICONIC AWARDS and Honorable Mention at the American Architecture Prize 2016.

Sackett Union in Brooklyn, New York

Sackett Union in Brooklyn

Design: Rogers Partners Architects+Urban Designers. As one of the first new residential buildings in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood, Alchemy Properties Inc.’s development was designed to complement the fabric of the historic neighborhood.

Biourban Acupuncture Book by Marco Casagrande

Biourban Acupuncture Book

Author: Marco Casagrande, architect

Urban Acupuncture is a biourban theory, which combines sociology and urban design with the traditional Chinese medical theory of acupuncture.

Tincan Soho Restaurant, London

Tincan Restaurant Soho

Design: AL_A, Architects. While designing a new cultural centre in Lisbon, the architects discovered a former fishing tackle shop, which was transformed into a tiny, vibrant restaurant serving only tinned seafood.

60s Modern House on Gold Coast

60s Modern House

Design: Jamison Architects. ‘60s Modern’ is a renovation project. It is the upper unit of an original early 80’s duplex building, pinned to a steep hillside site, it overlooks the Gold Coast skyline and Pacific Ocean. The design encompasses the client’s love for 60’s style, decor and art.

St Jozef Housing Woumen

St Jozef Housing in Woumen

Design: BURO II & ARCHI+I. The new residential care centre offering around 100 beds replaces the existing, outdated St. Jozef facility in Woumen, a submunicipality of Diksmuide.

Espace Saint Marc in Châble, Switzerland

Espace St Marc Chable

Design: VOLTOLINI architectures sarl & Jean Paul Chabbey architectes SA. A building for “events and spectacles”. Held in between two concrete blocks, the lobby and main hall open up towards a perspective of the valley. From the interior the windows frame the contours of the Alpine landscape.

Office Building Moganshan Road Hangzhou

Moganshan Road Office Building

Design: David Chipperfield Architects. The ten-storey office building is located in a diversely built area on Moganshan Road near Hangzhou’s tranquil Shuyhan Park.

LEAF Awards 2016 Winners

Patagonia Ramp House interior

Overall winner – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL, London, UK, by Ian Ritchie Architects ; Lifetime Achievement Award for architect / engineer Santiago Calatrava.

Venning Housing Estate Kortrijk, Belgium

Venning Housing

Design: BURO II & ARCHI+I, architects. Comprehensive upgrade of a social housing company outdated buildings. Emphasis was put on healthier homes, rational and more efficient use of space, lower energy consumption and low maintenance costs.