Page \ Park Architects won architecture practice of the year, best building prize went to the Riverside Campus in Glasgow by Reiach and Hall and Michael Laird Architects, and the Chairman’s Award went to HERE + NOW for a month-long exhibition in Rodney St tunnel.
2A Asia Architecture Award 2016 – in Vienna, Austria. This architectural award aims to identify essences of architecture in Asia and to glorify the importance of social and cultural identity and significance of spirituality along with physical aspects of architecture.
The competition is both a race that pushes the boundaries of the concept of house design and an opportunity of exposure. The competition is open to anyone worldwide including designers, architects, landscape architects, artists, engineers and students and all professionals in areas related to architecture.
Design: Tectoniques Architectes
Individual grouped accommodation units, intermediate housing and small collective housing blocks, are all built using dry construction methods employing 2D macro-components along with 3D modules for the sanitary and technical facilities.
Design: nps tchoban voss architects. The new four-star hotel Titanic has been built on a wide vacant building lot in Berlin´s central district called “Mitte” and with its multiple wings extends wide on to the premises
Architects: David Childs of Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM). 10 Columbus Circle shopping mall, 5-star hotel, Time Warner offices, apartments, TV studios, concert hall. This development is formed from a pair of interconnected mixed-use skyscrapers.
Design: DDG Partners in house ; Architect of record: HTO Architects. Luxury condominium toweron the Upper East Side of Manhattan: “instead of a 30-foot-deep lot, abutting East 88th Street, the developer sliced off a narrow sliver only four feet wide.”
Design: Richard Meier & Partners, Architects. Trademark white eschewed for developer Sheldon Solow’s standard black : 42-story, 556-unit residential tower on the East River.
Design: SOMA Architects. This building has 65 ft of frontage but only 13 ft depth: an array of 1,000 white glass-reinforced plastic cubes was made using advanced parametric tools, forming one continuous surface within the space.
Design: Margot Krasojević Architects. This hut offers a snowdrift frame made from weighted carbon fibre mesh, this contoured landscape mimics the surrounding vertiginous precipices and landscapes in Nepal.
Design: Kelvin Bing, Renaissance Planners & Designers. Avoiding HVAC cooling systems costs, this tropical residential home tries to overcome local humidity via passive cooling design. The design also strives to foster family bonding via implementing an open-concept living.
Philanthropic programme providing a year-long collaboration: Swiss architect Simon Kretz “overjoyed” to be selected by Sir David Chipperfield ; expects he will profoundly influence his understanding of the methodologies of architecture.
JTP and AR Urbanism win design contest for the ‘Paddington Pole’ site. The low-level buildings contrast with the 72-storey skyscraper designed by Renzo Piano next door to Paddington rail station.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. Located directly on the High Line in West Chelsea, the center of New York’s art world, The Related Companies has commissioned Pritzker Prize winning Zaha Hadid Architects to create 39 unique residences that embody her world-renowned design vision.