Blood Center in Racibórz, Poland

Blood Center in Racibórz

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

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

PATCH22 Residence in Amsterdam

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

The Piazza Residence in Jeddah

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

University of Stuttgart Research Pavilion 2015 building

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

Greenwich Village apartment interior design

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

Botanic Center Bloom Brussels

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

Riba Bar in Leblon

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

Dean of Students Building

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

Norman Foster Francis Aish Martha Tsigkari at AAG2016 ETH Zurich

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.

Asian Cairns: Shenzhen Skyscraper Design

Asian Cairns Shenzhen Skyscraper

Design: Vincent Callebaut Architectures: Cities use 75% of the worldwide consumption of energy and emit 80% of global CO2. The contemporary urban model is ultra-energy consuming and relies on exporting pollution and waste.

Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate 2016

Cais das Artes Project, Brazil by Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha wins the Praemium Imperiale. The annual awards, in the categories of Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Music and Theatre/Film, cover fields of achievement not represented by the Nobel Prizes