Design: Matt Architecture / SODA. Campaign to halt demolition of former Foyles bookshop gathers steam. To be replaced by new-build 300,000 sqft building of office-led accommodation plus shops, restaurants, bars, offices, apartments and a new education-led gallery.
Alexander Brenner Architekten news. This German architecture practice was established in 1990 in Stuttgart, Germany. The atelier focuses on villas and residential houses, art galleries and private art collections
Design: WilkinsonEyre. The NSW Planning Assessment Commission has approved, subject to conditions, the applications for the modification of the approved concept plan for Barangaroo, and for the construction of the Crown Sydney Hotel Resort at Bangaroo South.
Design: Uostamiescio projektas. On the top of the building the roof cafe with a terrace was designed offering a view to the Curonian lagoon and the Baltic sea. Over the dolphin living space the sunroof was installed, dropping the maximum amount of light into the pool area.
The Pierre Lassonde Pavilion Québec building design by OMA, Architects with Provencher_Roy Architectes gradually decreases in height as it retreats from the urban turbulence, creating a cascade effect that enables the museum to reach out toward the park at the back while inviting the city in on the front.
Design: SPARCHS, architects. Linden Street, a back alley to Hayes Valley’s boutique San Francisco mixed-use commercial and residential district, incorporates an eclectic group of traditional one- to four-story Victorian and Edwardian houses.
Design: KCAP Architect&Planners. The team of developer ABC Planontwikkeling, Westplan Investors and KCAP Architect&Planners wins the competition ‘Punt de Sniep’ area in Diemen, a city in the agglomeration of Amsterdam.
Design: Sheppard Robson and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands. Fitzroy Place has 289 affordable and market homes, 220,000 sq ft NIA of offices, new shops, restaurants and community space, with these elements woven together and set around a new publicly accessible square.
Design: Jean Verville architecte
Nestled in the privacy of a hemlock forest, FAHOUSE presents an amazing building that seems to emerge from a children’s story. Exploiting the contrasts between opacity and light, the architect Jean Verville develops a graphic assemblage, which rises like two giant conifers.
Design: PLP Architecture. Construction of The Pinnacle replacement may be delayed following the referendum result. The office tower includes a restaurant and bar occupying the upper levels plus a free public viewing gallery.
Design: Andres Duany of Duany Plater-Zyberk. A group of Japanese house building professionals visit Scotland’s largest planned new town as part of sustainable communities within Europe study. The 8,000 home £2bn development will sit on 2,000 acres of Aberdeenshire farmland.
Design: Abiboo Architecture. The contemporary Madrid villa is designed as a sponge, with multiple micro-spaces designed especially in relation with sensorial experiences and inter-related to each other.
MZ Architects news: K Galleria, Kaslik, Keserwan District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon: the architecture of this project is inspired by the ancient khan or urban caravanserai.
Design: Margot Krasojevic Architect. Trolleybuses are electric vehicles which makes them more environmentally friendly than fossil fuel or hydrocarbon-based vehicles when implemented in the city.