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.
Arup Associates news – National Stadium Building in Singapore + New Doha Tennis Stadium at Khalifa Sports Park, Qatar + BSkyB Believe in Better Building Award
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Design: Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup, architects – The NMAAHC building opened on September 24. Architect David Adjaye establishes a “strong conceptual resonance with America’s deep and longstanding African heritage”.
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, NHS healthcare building development in Northwest London – design by IBI Group – new UK healthcare building, architecture news
Located near the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand, this new Thai property design by Architectkidd is formed by the tropical conditions of Southeast Asia as well as the values of its owners, a Swiss family living in the region.
Campaign to save this structure over a public square in South London. A new 4-6 storey mixed-use commercial space and housing development proposal by Carl Turner Architects aims to replace this structure.
Design: SAOTA, Architects. A four bedroom home for a young family: the design had to encapsulate all qualities of luxury open-plan living but still provide a homely environment. The narrow steep site with tough planning restrictions drove the design.