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.
With its wide walls of glass and a ribbon-like white façade that winds its way around the building by architects Evolution Design, this home on the banks of Lake Zurich is so light and mobile in appearance that it resembles a futuristic vessel.
Architects: querkraft. The façade of this apartment tower is characterized by perimetrical balconies, which are extended in front of each flat and shift from floor to floor.
Forward-thinking organisations in Lancashire, London and China win for their commitment to creating sustainable, healthy, energy efficient environments in homes and buildings.
Design: hhh architects. Three houses built on a wooded hillside overlooking the west coast of Skiathos. The natural environment defined the architectural layout: 6 volumes following the slope in a linear formation, parallel to the sea view.
Design: Handel Architects. Shiny new building in Chelsea: a 184,000 sqft boutique hotel. The 12-story building includes 316 guestrooms, two restaurants, rooftop and VIP lounges, outdoor pool and pool bar, a gym, event space, and ground floor retail.