Design: SdARCH Trivelli&Associati. The government agency Al Amiri Diwan have built a park in Kuwait City to celebrate the Constitution of Kuwait’s 50th anniversary. “The Constitution” is a monument celebrating the path to democracy of the state.
Design: L.E.FT, Architects. This building occupies a renovated cross-vaulted space, adding a veiled steel structure and a plaza in front. The slender minaret is formed of thinly-sliced steel plates, linked horizontally through a canopy to a curved entry wall.
Bluecoat Arts Centre Liverpool design by Biq Architects, oldest surviving city centre building: Arts centre extension, English Grade 1 Listed building restoration (originally built as a school in 1717) and a new 2250 m² extension built – a new arts wing housing a flexible performance space and four art galleries.
Design: Rongor Design & Consultant Co. This resort is designed to let the guests have a comfortable and relaxed experience throughout their stay. The designers have emphasized the transition between spaces and scales to create a positive rhythm of a holistic space.
It is Liverpool’s oldest surviving city centre building and a fine example of Queen Anne-style architecture, yet the builders and architects responsible for creating Bluecoat have remained unconfirmed – until now. New research has discovered fresh information about the origins of this much-loved Liverpool building, which dates from 1717 and started life as a charity school before becoming a centre for the contemporary arts.
Concerned by multiple reports of some alternative vapour-open underlays failing in their secondary water shedding role, DuPont™ Tyvek® instigated a thorough investigation into ‘real world’ performance.
The Surface & Materials Show announces a dynamic programme of issue-based seminars, talks, workshops and features. This year’s show (18-20 Oct) will come at a crucial time for the construction industry, when the sharing of knowledge and ideas is ever more vital.
Zwarts & Jansma, Netherlands – Dutch architects office, architecture studio Holland – Zwarts & Jansma Architects: Dutch building images + project information
Design: moh architects. The new ‘Busan Metropolitan Opera’ sits at the intersection point of the two bridges leading up to the competition site, tying the Opera into the city fabric while at the same time interweaving it with the picturesque waterfront promenade.
Design: Lehrer Architects. Located in a challenging neighborhood, and built on a low budget, these prototypes for affordable homes provide amenities and spatial qualities not usually found in this type of housing.
Architecture competition for a Holocaust Memorial and possible below-ground Learning Centre. To be located beside the UK Parliament building in the Westminster UNESCO World Heritage Site buffer zone.
Design: BDP, architects. The new building is the focal point on the main Talbot Campus. It fuses education, research and professional practice using flexible informal study and social collaborative spaces. Shared facilities foster cross-school activity and maximise space utilisation.
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.
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.