Hemingzhou Hotspring Resort in Qingyuan

Hemingzhou Hotspring Resort

Design: C.DD

The Hemingzhou Hotspring Resort & Spa is located away from the hustle and bustle in cities. The developer’s aim is to build a resort for ecological recuperating and resting the visitor’s mind and body.

Cafe and Bookshop for Teatro Massimo in Palermo

Cafe and Bookshop for Teatro Massimo

Design: Adelfio Anello Architetti. Design of the buvette of theatre and the bookshop in the adjoining room overlooking Piazza Verdi, in order to achieve a cafe open to the city, even outside of the show times and a bookshop with merchandising for the theater.

Masdar Design Competition, Abu Dhabi Contest

Masdar Plaza near Abu Dhabi by LAVA

Design: Laboratory for Visionary Architecture – giant umbrellas, with a design based on the principles of sunflowers, provide moveable shade in the day, store heat, then close and release the heat at night in the plaza of a new eco-city in the United Arab Emirates.

New Town Hall Uppsala, Sweden

New Town Hall in Uppsala

Henning Larsen Architects, with SLA and Tyréns, win architecture competition for a new 25,000sqm town hall building. A glass-roofed courtyard will be the new, public gathering place of the city, with its transparent architecture.

Altaïr House in Cap-à-l’Aigle, Quebec, Canada

Altaïr House in Cap-à-l'Aigle, Quebec, Canada

Design: Bourgeois / Lechasseur architects. The name, Altaïr House, refers to the brightest star in the Aquila constellation. Altaïr House is located in Cap-à-l’Aigle, in the region of Charlevoix. Altaïr means “The Flying Eagle.” The building appears discrete from the street, but unfolds toward the river away from the street, as though ready to take flight.

Casa Das Preguicosas Coimbra

Casa Das Preguicosas

Architects: Estudio Branco Delrio Arquitectos. The Casa Das Preguicosas is located in the outskirts of Coimbra, a single family homes area. The site currently enjoys far stretching views

Treehouse Suite at Playa Viva Hotel

Treehouse Suite

Design: Deture Culsign, Architecture+Interiors. Take a walk on the one-mile beach of this 12-key 200 acre eco-resort, and you might see an elliptical shaped bamboo wrapped platform balanced between the canopy of palms above and the green shrubbery below.

Teatre La Massa, Vilassar de Dalt, Catalunya

Teatre La Massa Vilassar de Dalt

Design: Rafael Guastavino Moreno

This impressive Catalan building has circular structure with a rectangular stage area. The distinguishing feature of the building is the 17-m diameter Catalan vault over the main hall. The shallow dome’s structure is a double layer of ceramic tiles.

Suzhou Library Building

Suzhou Library Building in China

Fully automated high-bay storage building for 7 million books, unique in China. Design competition win by German architecture studio for a new building Xiangcheng Town, north of the historic Suzhou city center.

Cais das Artes, Paulo Mendes da Rocha Brazil

Cais das Artes Brasil

The building design was a partnership between Pritzker Prize winner Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Metro Arquitetos office. It brings together a theater with capacity for 1,300 spectators, a museum with 3000 sqm of exhibition area, plaza, library, auditorium and café.

Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, London

Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, NHS healthcare building development in Northwest London – design by IBI Group – new UK healthcare building, architecture news