The jury panel of the 2016 Wolf Prize in Architecture has unanimously decided to award the prize to architect Phyllis Lambert, Canada, “for being vigorously involved in the realization of seminal innovative buildings, exemplary urban regeneration projects and leading research institutes.”
Exhibition design: Rachael Davidson (HÛT Architecture) & Chris Bryant (Alma-nac). Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) summer installation ‘Constructing Communities’, part of London Festival of Architecture, at iconic car park site, Peckham Levels, south London.
Design: James Ingo Freed of I. M. Pei and Partners, Architects. This large convention center is located on Eleventh Avenue, between 34th and 40th streets, on the West side of Manhattan in New York City.
Design: Daniel Burnham, Architect with Frederick P. Dinkelberg. Famous piece of New York architecture that appears on numerous postcards and in many films, so-named due to its sharp pointed plan.
Located in a quiet area of the Eastern Townships in Quebec, the Nook Residence design by MU Architecture sits in continuity with the landscape. Turning its back to the street, the property offers a virtually blind facade that encourages discovery and piques curiosity.
Architects: MVRDV. New building opens at 133 Wai Yip Street: an office transformation, with retail and restaurants. It strips an old industrial building down to its bare bones and uses only glass with stainless steel infill to build up the interior spaces.
Middle East Interior Design Awards news – AAID win Best Large Corporate Space in MEIDA, for the General Electric Middle East Aviation Innovation Centre, at Dubai Airport Free Zone.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a 16.3-acre (6.6-hectare) complex of buildings, hosting notable performing arts organizations such as the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, and the New York City Ballet.
Ensamble Studio architecture news: ‘Domo’ at Tippet Rise Art Center, Stillwater County, Montana, USA – opening to the public June 17, 2016, offering great classical music among sculptures and buildings that hug the land like natural formations.
TYIN tegnestue news. Architects abased in Trondheim, Norway: contemporary Norwegian architecture practice with international work.
Design: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. The vision for Oxford Road’s new neighbourhood is closer to realisation after joint venture partners Select Property Group and Bruntwood were given planning permission for the biggest planning application of the scheme.
Abel Feleke from the University of Western Australia wins for his proposal, ‘Weaving the Urban Fabric: Examining the Significance of Community’: the contest was open to schools of architecture around the world.
Design: Mecanoo, architects. The University of Manchester receives planning permission to create a £350m engineering campus designed by this celebrated Dutch architecture practice. MECD will be one of the largest UK higher education construction projects.
Located in Grabenstraße, this is the very first store to open in the city of Düsseldorf. Aesop Grabenstraße is the second store designed by Snøhetta to open in Germany, preceded by Aesop Fasnanstraße in Berlin.