Incurvo House in Oxfordshire, UK
Design: Adrian James Architects. The house is a viscous form petrified, an English butte which grows out of the organic folds of its setting. The strong sense of movement is expressed in the sinuous brick carapace.
House Between the Pine Forest in Paterna
Architects: Fran Silvestre Arquitectos. Minimalist modernization of villa belonging to the same family for several generations. The original house formed by the aggregation of different interventions at different times, with different construction systems.
Medibank Place in Melbourne
Dynamic interior, a new head office in Melbourne’s Docklands, design by HASSELL, architects. The new workplace was part of a major cultural change program for Australia’s largest health insurer to live its purpose to the core and create better health outcomes for its members, employees and the community.
Split View Mountain Lodge in Havsdalen, Buskerud
Design: Reiulf Ramstad Architects. This Norwegian holiday home has a clean-cut expression. The main wing houses mainly bedrooms and divides into two branches. The shift in program and different levels lets the building adapt to the slope.
Blood Center in Racibórz, Poland
Design: FAAB Architektura. Blood red building housing cool rooms, blood collecting unit, advanced medical laboratories, blood radiation laboratory, offices and conference center. It is very red!
Guangzhou Museum Building
Design: gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners · Architects. New images of this prize-winning competition entry for Guangzhou City Museum. With the adjacent Science Museum and Art Museum it will form the central cultural precinct of this third-largest Chinese city.
PATCH22 Residence in Amsterdam Property
Design: FRANTZEN et al architecten. Energy-neutral building with a unique 30m high wooden loadbearing structure in which the wooden columns, beams and walls remain visible. Apartments use hollow floors for totally flexible layouts. The building provides its own energy
The Piazza Residence Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Design: Badih and Kantar Architects. This intimate residential complex is inspired by the way Mediterranean cities have evolved: low-rise buildings provide a relaxed informality with bridging terraces connecting many properties.
University of Stuttgart Research Pavilion 2015
Design: University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning team. New photos of this German pavilion building constructed using a novel robotic fabrication. It shows the architectural potential of a building method inspired by the water spider’s underwater nest construction.
Greenwich Village Apartment in New York
Design: Raad Studio, architects. Clean renovation of full floor, 25’ x 94’ space in a 1902 industrial loft building. A sleek, minimalist kitchen/dining area with a 23 foot floating Corian island is the focus of the property.
Botanic Center Bloom Brussels building design
Design: Vincent Callebaut Architectures. New images of urban renewal project limiting carbon emissions in the European Union capital. The role of architects “involves advocating for a hybrid history”, and making bold choices.
Riba Bar in Leblon, Rio de Janeiro
Design: SuperLimão Studio + André Piva Arquitetura + Laika Design
This small, richly detailed building integrates internal and external spaces. Free of doors the bar appropriates the street corner. Peeling walls reveal the structure of the building, framing and enhancing the kitchen and counter.
Dean of Students’ Building in Be’er Sheba, Israel
Architects: YBGSNA. The Dean of Students’ Building is the academic and social gathering point of the School of Engineering at Be’er Sheba University. The building’s program is structured around a terraced three-storey public space of the different departments.
AAG2016 Conference: Lord Norman Foster
Renowned architect Lord Norman Foster, together with Francis Aish, Head of Applied Research and Development at Foster + Partners, presented a public keynote lecture to the Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference (AAG2016) organised by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication at ETH Zurich.