An Lanntair and The Western Isles Architects Group have been celebrating architecture in all its forms in the Outer Hebrides. From modern architecture to 17th Century ruins, the project asked people to take a look at the architecture that surrounds them.
A derelict sanatorium that featured on the BBC’s Restoration programme has been destroyed by what is being treated as a deliberate fire. Crews were called to the empty Glen O’Dee, built in Banchory in 1900, shortly before midnight.
Design: Saucier + Perrotte architectes with HCMA. The site consists of a 20,240 sqm parcel of land located at an important university entry point. The building was thus designed to act as a gateway, engaging the community with an open, transparent and inviting ground floor.
Design: Goettsch Partners, architects. A new 1,075,300-sqft tower featuring a 377-key Grand Hyatt hotel, 84 serviced apartments, three restaurants including a destination rooftop venue, multiple ballrooms and meeting facilities, a spa and fitness center, and parking for 225 cars.
Design: PLC Architects. Set in the Solent, a historically important strait separating the Isle of Wight from the Great Britain mainland, Spitbank Fort is a Victorian sea fort built on a circular base 50m in diameter
Design: Behnisch Architekten. Groundbreaking of the new building for the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research: ISREC will bring together under one roof 400 researchers, scientists, doctors and clinicians.
Visit five significant houses designed by Philip Johnson in New Canaan, CT, plus evenings with Toshiko Mori, Nicholas Fox Weber, architect Isay Weinfeld and architecture critic Paul Goldberger
Design: Magén Arquitectos. It’s been nearly a century since Le Corbusier, published his “Theory of the roof-garden,” seed of the fifth of his five points for a new architecture, which talks about the use of the terrace.
Design: Nic Owen Architects. As the answer to the site, environment and client’s requirements the pod extension is a true expression of ‘form following function’. A modern structure is not limited with a period (Victorian) architectural language but is free to respond justly to the brief, site and restraints.
Design: The Buchan Group / CallisonRTKL, architects. The first stage of Chadstone’s $660 m redevelopment unveiled. A striking 7000 sqm grid shell roof presents a milestone in structural design innovation as it arches 30m over the atrium.
Design by Bercy Chen Studio Architects – this Texas house was built for two families in Austin and therefore is split into two living areas. The TX home consists of two pavilions connected by a glass hallway.
YOU, Lot YA, Paris design by STUDIONINEDOTS architects. Within a dense urban fabric the architects created a robust bank building, with subtle recesses and a striking facade that interplays rhythms of bronze-coloured blades; blades that block sunlight while retaining views of the Seine.
The story of Noah’s Ark was the competition concept set forth by the Jewish Museum Berlin by US architects Olson Kundig. The flood narrative is deeply rooted in Abrahamic cultures
Design: Grzywinski+Pons. A 100 room hotel in west London, a hybridization of a boutique hotel offering and an aparthotel — two programs that generally are mutually exclusive. The architects’ brief was to bring a design-led bespoke hospitality feel to a product that is traditionally anything but.