Arnhem Museum in Holland Building
Design: Benthem Crouwel Architects. The jury voted unanimously for the vision proposed by Benthem Crouwel Architects for the renovation and expansion of Museum Arnhem.
Rodmarton Street Housing in London Homes
Design: Bennetts Associates. The recent soar of London’s house prices has increasingly reduced the city from a real place into a game of Monopoly, forcing many ordinary Londoners to live ever further from their original neighbourhoods.
Coal Drops Yard King’s Cross: Heatherwick Studio
Design: Heatherwick Studio. With its canalside location, Victorian architecture and beautiful new public squares as a backdrop, Coal Drops Yard is set to become a unique new shopping destination for London.
Slussen Masterplan in Stockholm
Design: Foster + Partners. Work starts on site at Slussen, located at the heart of the historic city and its archipelago. The construction of the New Slussen is one of the largest urban transformation projects in Sweden.
Natuzzi Store: Furniture Showroom Limassol
Design: christos pavlou architecture. The building is on one of the longest commercial streets of the country spanning 6.5km in length. It is inserted between an old existing two-storey house and a new 6th floor block of offices.
Pier 55 Hudson River Park, New York City
Design: Heatherwick Studio, with landscape architect Mathews Nielsen. A New York State appeals court ordered work be halted on elevated park over the Hudson River. The Chelsea riverfront project is being funded by media mogul Barry Diller and fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg.
Villa Sochi, Black Sea House: Russian Property
Design: Alexandra Fedorovat, architect. The exterior evokes the Mobius strip: it is a clear architectural shape of a white strip that flutters in the wind and forms a figure on the one hand and the infinity sign something fundamental on the other.
Villa Mistral: House on Sentosa Island
Architect: Mercurio Design Lab Srl. The inspiration behind the radical shape of Lambda originated from a Lamborghini Gallardo. Further refinements of this led to the formal idea of two inverted triangles which are slightly offset from one another.
41 Cooper Square: New York Building
Design: Morphosis, Architects. New photos added of this dramatic, sustainable academic building. The distinctive building on Third Avenue between East 6th and 7th Streets was New York City’s first LEED certified academic laboratory building.
Via Chiese 72-74, Milan Offices
Design: Park Associati. The renovation project proposes a complete revision of a building of poor architectural quality built at the beginning of the ‘80s which has become outdated in terms of both energy and distribution.
I3 house: Residence in Miyazaki City, Japan
Design: Masahiko Sato, Architect. The house – at the top of a hill in Miyazaki City – focused on the natural features of the site, “wind” and “cliff”.
Metropolitan Workshop Architects London
Metropolitan Workshop architects news – Swan Housing Association submitted planning application for Phase 2 of the Blackwall Reach Regeneration Project in Poplar, east London, following extensive public consultation.
University Center at The New School, NYC
Design: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Architects (SOM). Located at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 14th Street, the 375,000-sqft center 16-story building reflects and reinforces the experimental nature of The New School and creates a dialogue between the campus community, the local neighborhood, and the city.
New Museum of Contemporary Art New York City
Design: SANAA architects. Founded as the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 1977, is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the world. It opened its first freestanding, dedicated building at 235 Bowery in 2007.