Trumpf Poland Technology Center, Warsaw
Design: Barkow Leibinger architects. New 3000sqm headquarters building with offices and exhibition areas. Gleaming laser-cut stainless steel fins cover the façades in a soft gradient.
Jencks Award Winner: Níall McLaughlin architect
The Royal Institute of British Architects announce Níall McLaughlin as winner of the 2016 RIBA Charles Jencks Award. It is given to an individual or practice that has made a major contribution internationally to practice and theory of architecture.
July 22 Memorial Sites: Utøya + Oslo, Norway
Utøya ‘Memory Wound’ memorial design by Jonas Dahlberg abandoned? Norwegian government offers to replace controversial Utøya memorial to appease local residents. The memorial to commemorate the massacre on the island in 2011 has proved divisive
Frihavnen, Copenhagen Docks Buildings
Photos of emerging dockland architecture in Copenhagen: interesting new residential buildings along Indiakaj and Dampfærgevej.
Castle Rock Beach House Whangarei Heads
Design: Herbst Architects. New photos of this building designed for occupation in the summer months. Boundaries between the built form and nature are challenged to heighten the experience of immersion in nature. The architects reference the nostalgia surrounding the “Kiwi bach”.
South Yarra House Melbourne, Malvern East
Design: LSA Architects. A residence with light-filled and spacious internal spaces, which maintain strong connections to the exterior of the building and the home’s multiple courtyards.
Kyiv Office, Ukraine Work Space: Zotov&Co
Design: Zotov&Co, architects. The main advantage is the separate exit door. Because the freedom is above everything. Сourtyard garden is an additional space for conference room as well as a place for rest. The architects were searching an office for rent, but everywhere interiors were decorated with laminate, wallpaper, plastic, trendy “peach” color. This space was not “spoiled” yet.
Ocno Archipelago in Mantova, Lombardy
Design: Joseph Grima/Space Caviar. Arcipelago di Ocno, a new aquatic installation on the Italian Capital of Culture 2016 waterfront by this Genoa-based architectural studio. The outline evokes the lotus.
Urban Rigger in Copenhagen
Design: BIG architects
BIG has stacked 9 container units in a circle, and created 15 studio residences framing a centralized winter garden; this is used as a common meeting place for students.
Blumenhaus in Zürich, Schiffbaustrasse: WAA
The Blumenhaus building design by Wiel Arets Architects (WAA) is an integral component of a larger effort by the city of Zürich to upgrade its Escher-Wyss district through a metamorphosis of new developments.
New Majestic Hotel in Singapore
Architect: Ministry of Design. Responding to the global appetite for unique hospitality experiences, the progressive Majestic Hotel boldly defies simplistic definitions of style. Rather, it is a collection of veritable encounters where design is given full license to surprise, thrill and even confound.
Modern Mansion near London, England
Design: Maciej Grelewicz Architects
1st Prize in the ‘Design a Beautiful House’ competition for a luxurious residence located near London: ‘A classic and well-judged representation of Architectural Beauty’.
Chateau Margaux Winery Building, France
Design: Foster + Partners architects. New photos of the first new visible building on the estate since the Château and the existing cellars were completed 200 years ago: a large new winery building, a new Vinothèque, and the refurbishment of existing buildings and the historic Orangery.
Lodève Childcare Center in France, Hérault
Design: A + A R C H I T E C T U R E – new images of this building at the angle of two narrow streets. It shares its site with a nursing home: a rich intergenerational relationship in the middle of a beautiful garden and of chestnuts