RIAS Awards / RIBA Awards for Scotland 2016 news

Pyramid Viewpoint Inveruglas

Winning buildings + architects news. Jury chaired by Willie Watt included Denise Bennetts, Alan Jones, Andy Leitch and Stuart McKill. The Edinburgh house by Richard Murphy Architects won a separate RIBA Award for Scotland

100 E 53rd Street New York Skyscraper

100 E 53rd Street New York

Design Architect: Foster + Partners. This 61-storey residential tower at 100 E 53rd Street on the corner of Lexington and 53rd Street, it replaces the old YWCA building in Midtown Manhattan.

FAB Park in Downtown Los Angeles, Public Space

FAB Park in Downtown Los Angeles

Design: OMA, architects / Mia Lehrer + Associates / IDEO. Team selected to design a new public park at First and Broadway for the City’s Department of Recreation and Parks, and soon to be one of the most important civic spaces in the city’s vibrant downtown core.

Business Garden Stefanikova Bratislava building

Business Garden Stefanikova

Design: Architekti Šebo Lichý. Štefánikova Street is known as traffic route in the city center, yet it has the potential to be a city boulevard. It has a unique character with a varied structure of buildings from different historical periods.

Supreme Sport Village Rome

Supreme Sport Village

Design: LAD Architects. The “Supreme Sport Village” is a sports center located in Rome, in a suburb called Tor Sapienza, close to the eastern border of the city between Via Collatina and Via Prenestina.

The Surface & Materials Show Birmingham

The Surface and Materials Show

The world of architecture, design and construction has a keen appetite for the kind of innovation and quality that adds meaningful value to a project. Fortunately, the ingenuity of leading surface and materials producers results in a constantly evolving offering of the new, useful and beautiful… many examples of which will be on display at the Surface & Materials Show 2016.

Tippet Rise Art Center Buildings in Montana

Domo, designed by Ensamble Studio, installed at Tippet Rise Art Center

Poised on the ridges and rolling fields where the Beartooth Mountains touch Montana’s big sky, this new building will open to the public on June 17, offering a “uniquely resonant experience of great classical music, nestled among sculptures and buildings that hug the land like natural formations.”

Hybrid Design Office in San Francisco

Hybrid Design Office

Design: Terry.Terry Architecture. The design required the removal of the existing interior structure while leaving the existing perimeter brick structure and the original part of the front facade intact.

Zhejiang Gate Towers Hangzhou, Zhejiang province

Zhejiang Gate Towers

Design: LAVA. These tall buildings form an iconic entrance to the city of Hangzhou. The design of the two towers is based on the Chinese characters for ‘gate’, and they feature a shimmering façade of fins

Zhangjiang Science and Technology City Pudong

Zhangjiang Science and Technology City

Design: KCAP Architects&Planners and gmp, with Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl. Awarded first prize in the Shanghai architecture competition, second successful cooperative effort after urban masterplan for OlympiaCity, Hamburg.

AND Office Tower in Istanbul Kozyatağı

AND Office Tower

Design: HPP International Turkey. Four years after opening their Istanbul office, HPP have completed their first major project in Turkey. The 26-storey office tower has been succinctly named “AND” after the client, the multinational Anadolu Group.

Apartment SP in Ljubljana Property

Apartment SP

Design: SADAR+VUGA. Apartment in the 19th century townhouse in Ljubljana is a place of opposites: it is both warm and cold, both soft and orthagonal. It is equally open and closed against its surroundings and both in contact and in conflict with it’s past.

Patio Houses and 12 Row Houses Rome

Patio Houses and 12 Row Houses

Design: LAD Architects. This work is settled in two different plots, located in Rome, in a western suburb of the city. Some old and run-down buildings are going to be replaced with two new little residential blocks.