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.
Scott Sutherland School of Architecture Show 2016
“The best elements of architecture, teaching and urban planning on show from the top school in Scotland. Response to place, acknowledgement of the lessons of built heritage, sustainability, authentic consultation and involvement.”
Light Therapy in Montréal, Laval dermatology clinic
Architect: L. McComber. The six examination rooms, featuring frosted glass ceilings, form a long white wall punctuated by six high wooden doors. With its imposing opalescent glass wall and lowered ceiling, the relaxation room for the clinic’s professionals looks like a glowing cube.
Mann Island Liverpool: Merseytravel building
RIBA National Architecture Centre in Liverpool. To be opened by The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) with conference facilities and a gallery “at its heart”: it will “explore the enormous impact that architecture and design has on our lives”.
Liverpool School of Architecture Show 2016
Open on weekdays, 17 June – 18 July. The School’s “stated aim of understanding global context and excellent local application has had a profound effect on the regeneration of the city and has helped position it as an international institution.”
Rabbit Snare Gorge Cabin in Nova Scotia
Design: Omar Gandhi Architect and Design Base 8. Lawrence MacIsaac recalls stories of his great grandfather using the property to teach his sons how to snare rabbits, while his great grandmother commonly used the ‘laundry stone’ at the bottom of a small waterfall to wash clothing.
360° Apartment in Sao Paolo, New Residence
Architect: Diego Revollo. Ceramiche Refin tiles play centre stage in this outstanding project by Brazilian architect Diego Revollo. The 130m² apartment is located in Alto da Lapa with the lawyer client buying off plan.
New Offices at 144 Kilmore in Christchurch
Design: The Buchan Group. Global architectural, interior and graphic design firm The Buchan Group has relocated its new Christchurch office to 144 Kilmore Street, a building it also designed.
Park Structures in Mapua
Design: Irving Smith Architects. The government remediation of New Zealand’s “most contaminated site”, a former chemical fertilizer plant in the small rural town of Mapua, left the site bare, emotionally scarred, unused and fiscally under resourced.
Trianglemnant Civic Center in Ryde
Design: The Evolved Architectural Eclectic Limited. The architecture develops a triangular-shaped site containing two civic buildings – built in 1964 and 1970. A central open atrium provides indirect sun light and natural ventilation which saves energy costs.
Infinity Kitchen at Venice Biennale 2016
Design: MVRDV
The fully transparent kitchen installation takes the typical modern day modular kitchen and looks at progressing the typology to improving the culinary experience and challenging the immense, yet generic, kitchen industry.
Not Only a Carwash Madrid
Design: Lina Toro, architect. Burbucar is a carwash located at Costa Rica Street in Madrid. It is an established business, which uses clean and innovative processes and seeks to visualize its philosophy by means of a renewed image.