Garden House in Seattle, Washington, USA
Design by Balance Associates – this 3000 sqft single family residence is located on a +/-2.5 acre Urban Western Washington site which includes a class (3) salmon stream running through the property.
Treetops House in Mount Martha
Architects: Bryant Alsop. Designed for a semi-retired couple and completed in December 2015, this three-bedroom house in Mount Martha provides a private sanctuary that engages with the surrounding trees and bay views.
Highgate Junior School Building, North London
Design: Architype, Architects. Arranged along a west-facing crescent, each classroom has open views to the landscape, shaded by protruding vertical fins. 55,000 handmade bricks dominate the school façade, topped by 580sqm of wild flower meadow green roof.
Oceanique Villas, Vietnam Holiday Houses
Design: MM++ architects: oceanfront real estate development in Mui Ne, a seaside holiday destination in Vietnam’s south east coast. The site has a trapezoidal shape 110 m deep and 42 m along the beach
Wooster Hall at SUNY New Paltz Campus
Design: Croxton Collaborative Architects. A sweeping renewal of the college’s tired, 75,000-square-foot Wooster Hall, building perserved 96% of the structure’s 1967 Brutalist “bones” while transforming it into one of the most resilient academic buildings in the country.
Outer Crescent House Bayside
Design: Merrylees Architecture. Outer Crescent House is situated in the Bayside suburb of Brighton, tucked behind the busy Bay St retail quarter. The property was an overlooked transition site measuring a mere 345 sqm, between a commercial warehouse, a lane to the rear of the Bay St shops.
Wallis Annenberg Arts Center, Beverly Hills
Rehabilitation and redevelopment of the former Beverly Hills Post Office and the creation of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (“the Wallis”) design by Studio Pali Fekete architects – prize from The California Preservation Design Awards.
1000m2 of desire. Architecture and sexuality
With some 250 exhibits, including drawings and architectural models, art installations, audiovisuals, books and other materials, the exhibition explores the power of spaces as the driving force of desire and shows how architecture has been a tool that controls behaviour and creates gender stereotypes in our patriarchal society.
The Surf Club Four Seasons in Florida
Design: Richard Meier & Partners – luxury residential and hotel development with 965 feet of Atlantic Ocean frontage on nine pristine acres. The development includes three new translucent glass buildings and preserves the landmark Russell Pancoast-designed Surf Club.
An Lanntair, Stornoway Building: Lewis Arts Centre
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.
Glen O’Dee Sanatorium Banchory hospital
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.
UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Vancouver, BC
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.
Grand Hyatt Dalian, Chinese Hotel
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.
Spitbank Fort Building Conversion
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