Plan B: City Above the City Competition 2016

Plan B architecture competition

Cities all over the world are in dire need of new ways to house a rapidly growing urban population. This international wood design competition invites architects and students to solve the challenges of urbanization in both sustainable and humane ways.

Cube Dwelling in New Delhi Defence Colony

Cube Dwelling

Design: AKDA, Architects. Although repeatedly revised zoning has now permitted buildings up to five stories, these apartments continue to remain unaffordable to buy, creating a massive supply of accommodation for rent.

Stirling University buildings, Scottish architecture

Juniper Court Halls of Residence

Design: Lewis & Hickey Architects. New photos of Juniper Court Halls of Residence: clean-styled buildings using a simple palette of ivory blockwork and dark grey strips of windows. Picking up on the Modernist architecture by architect Robert Matthew.

Eole on the Evergreen Campus Montrouge

Eole on the Evergreen Campus

The conception of Eole – a 67 000 m² building made in four years – preserves and upholds the site’s environmental vocation: buildings operate in accordance with the HQE norms, new structures were built according to the BBC norms.

Evergreen Campus Reception Pavilion Montrouge

Evergreen Campus Reception

Design: Arte Charpentier Architectes. Right at Paris’ doorstep, the Evergreen Campus hosts the Crédit Agricole’s head office. Multiple corporate entities share this space; the entire campus revolves around a central park that acts as its green lung.

Orsi Khaneh Building in Tehran, Housing

Orsi Khaneh Building

The main concept of this built project design by Keivani Architects is originated from Iranian traditional architecture. They were using a special type of window which is locally called Orsi, made by wooden lattice and stained glasses.

Toro Gastrobar Los Cabos

Toro Gastrobar

Design by Studio Arthur Casas Arquitectos, located in front of a spectacular view towards the Pacific Ocean, the building was transformed in order to create a transition between a traditional Mexican courtyard and open views to the landscape.

House in Asamayama: New Home Nagano

House in Asamayama

Design: Kidosaki Architects Studio. The owner of this spectacular Japanese house spent years to find the steeply sloping site. The architect links the beautiful vast sea of trees with the internal space. When you open the large door to the living room, Mt. Asama appears in the picture window frame.

LEGO Office Complex Billund

LEGO Office Complex

C.F. Møller is behind a global hub for the LEGO Group with the design of a new office complex. 52,000 sqm of building and a large, public park are the framework for flexible workplaces, new communities, new ways of working and sustainability

30 Hudson Yards, New York City

30 Hudson Yards

Design: Bill Pedersen – Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) architects. 90-story, 1,296-ft-tall office tower now 15 floors above street level. The 2.6-m-sqft tower is be the second-tallest office building in New York, taller than the Empire State Building and home to the highest outdoor observation deck in the city.

City Pool and Turkish Baths in Newcastle

City Pool and Turkish Baths

The £5m redevelopment by Napper Architects of the historic site proposed by Fusion Lifestyle will bring the City Pool and Turkish Baths back into use as a modern facility while retaining the distinctive neo-Georgian features of the 1920s building.

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art San Francisco

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art building in Chicago

George Lucas abandons plans to build his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago. It may move to Treasure Island in San Francisco, California. SF city and museum representatives are in early discussions about a site on Treasure Island. The Chicago design was by Ma Yansong of Chinese architecture studio MAD Architects.

Belle Epoque Maternity Ward Luxembourg

Belle Epoque Maternity Ward

Design: dagli atélier d’architecture. The Kirchberg Hospital and the Clinique Bohler plan to build a new extension. For the maternity on the 3rd floor, the Clinique Bohler organized a limited competition among several architects, among which were an office from Paris and two from Luxembourg.