There is almost only one month left for young architects and designers from all around the world to take part in the biggest competition for architects worldwide: 700 contestants from 73 different countries.
Design: Metropole Architects. With the site giving an expansive ocean view, the design was able to respond with a “Wingspread” type architecture that appears to float over the indigenous dune vegetation, making the most of the comprehensive beach and sea views.
Design: Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planner. The Master Plan outside Beijing represents a visionary experiment in planning a new social model of agricultural living and working rooted in a local focus that suggests ways beyond the increasingly unsustainable march of globalization.
Non Architecture competition: The “Training” competition aim is to develop a design proposal for the sport facility typology – physical activity and/or sports entertainment: create innovative and unconventional projects
Design: Haworth Tompkins, architects with Arup. The Britten Studio is a smaller space than the Concert Hall and will accommodate mainly recitals and orchestral rehearsals. The construction of the auditorium, including the roof, is of concrete to ensure a very low background noise level so that the full dynamic range of the music can be appreciated.
Design: Candalepas Associates, architects. The primary school building is a simple narrow extruded form approximately 80m in length, teaching spaces are located over four levels accessed from continuous external walkways to the west.
Design: AKDA, architects. Surrounded by a rapidly urbanizing village settlement, the 7 acre site is on the outskirts of New Delhi. The site’s existing rocky terrain posed a significant challenge to the spatial planning of the site.
Design: VDV ARQ, architects
Located on an 800sqm plot in a gated community 30km away from Buenos Aires city, this is a medium scale family home that responds to the requirements of an active social life, flexible spaces and visual amplitude, emphasizing the privacy.
Design: Merrylees Architecture and Quinn Architecture. Ridgeway House is a sculptural facelift of the early, weatherboard Victorian cottage. The plan grants for a series of vastly malleable spaces that provide the new requirements for all of; a blended family, visiting relatives, and a home office.
Design: CODA Architecture + Urban Design – Tom Fisher House is a new intense homeless night asylum in the inner-city suburb of Mount Lawley. The 10-bed shelter will give homeless people with secure and managed overnight accommodation.
Design: Snøhetta, architects. Aesop’s first signature store in Norway, their 100th worldwide. The architectural exploration revealed materials and surfaces hidden within the space, some dating back to the 1800s.
Design: BCMF Architects. This building was planned for the Casa Cor MG 2014 as a kind of a hilltop belvedere. The site is located in a private weekend retreat development, scattered on a sloping mountain overlooking the stunning valleys of Nova Lima.
Manser Medal – The Sunday Time British Home Awards 2016 – OutHouse by Loyn & Co wins. Shortlisted architects were Coppin Dockray, Rodic Davidson Architects, Chris Dyson Architects, Sandy Rendel Architects, Bureau de Change Architects.
Architect: SPACESPACE. This collective housing’s scale is intermediate position between detached housing and building. This project site is situated on the west side of small station, a big 700-year-old camphor tree passing through the platform and the canopy.