The Architect’s Villas Mani, Peloponnese property
Design: hhh architects. The houses are located on an olive grove in Mani with a view to the Messinian bay. This complex consists of six stone blocks placed in between the existing olive trees.
Student Residences at St Lucia Campus Brisbane
Design: Wilson Architects + Partners Hill. The University of Queensland (UQ) has selected Wilson Architects + Partners Hill to design the $250m flagship Student Residences Project at the St Lucia campus.
Ongar Academy Essex Education Building
Design: Bond Bryan Architects. The new Ongar Academy will be a Four Form Entry Secondary School accommodating 800 pupils (including 200 sixth form pupils) with approximately 50 teaching staff and 15 – 20 Administrative support
Big Sky House Armidale, NSW property design
Design: Those Architects: the brief was to transform a late 19th century heritage-listed four bedroom cottage in a quiet, leafy country town into a larger, light filled home for a growing family.
BRIC IHG Hotel in San Diego Bay, California
Construction starts on phase 2 of a hotel-centric mixed-use development on the bay in San Diego designed by John Portman & Associates, adding a new InterContinental Hotel to the dual-branded select service hotel featuring a SpringHill Suites and Residence Inn.
Örnsro Woodtown in Sweden
Design: C. F. Moller, Architects. The buildings are constructed from solid wood, contributing positively to the project life cycle perspective. Solid wood is a renewable resource with low energy consumption and a reduced Co2 footprint.
St Mary Redcliffe Competition Winner, Bristol
Purcell beat Carmody Groarke, dRMM, Eric Parry Architects and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios in this architecture competition: they “demonstrated the deepest understanding of the site and context” with a “crisp, integrated and compelling” design.
McDowell+Benedetti Architects studio, UK
McDowell+Benedetti separate after twenty years to form Benedetti Architects and Matter Architecture. The London-based architecture practice was formed in 1996
Horse Park in Yeongcheon, South Korea
Design: The Evolved Architectural Eclectic Limited. ‘Nature-friendly theme park’ for humans and horses, designed by the architects as a total paradigm shift from traditional horse-racing culture to horse-race-meets-theme-park.
St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London
Design: HOK, Architects. Comprehensive redevelopment of Britain’s oldest operational hospital completed following an extensive 10-year modernisation project delivered by Skanska: 700,000 sqft of new patient accommodation.
The Quarry House in Cairngorms National Park, Strathdon
This bespoke house in the Cairngorm National Park designed by architects Brown + Brown sits on a beautiful south-facing site. A stacked stone wall extends out from the building into the landscape
BFI Film Centre, South Bank Centre, London
New BFI International Centre for Film, TV and the Moving Image gains offer of support of up to £87m towards the £130m total project cost. The new building should open in 2022.
Horizon House in Elgin, Texas Residence
Design: Matt Fajkus Architecture. The composition of this house employs a simple relationship between public and private zones by directly splitting the two. The fracture, also known as the ‘link,’ is a distinct space from both the long, private bar and the open, shared public area.
Venice Biennale Golden Lion Award 2016: Pavilion
Spain has been awarded the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016, for the exhibition ‘Unfinished’ ; Gabinete de Arquitectura has been awarded the prize for best exhibition. The Spanish Pavilion was curated by architects Iñaqui Carnicero, co-founder of Rica Studio, and Carlos Quintáns.