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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Copenhagen building photos: architectural images of key new buildings in the Danish Capital, plus some older classics such as Københavns Rådhus: Danish architecture images.
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.
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.