Latvia Museum of Contemporary Art Design Competition, architects shortlist news. Baltic architecture contest in Riga for architectural team by Malcolm Reading Consultants. Shortlisted design concepts for €30m building
Design: Roovice, architects. The bagel shop project began with local residents’ concern about their future due to a decrease in population and tax revenues and they were looking for the possibility of utilizing vacant houses in the city.
New York public realm, NY, USA – Manhattan urban landscape images, New York commercial architecture + architects – Manhattan public realm: NYC urban landscape design
Design: DVVD architecture. A linking structure on the Boulevard Périphérique between Paris and Aubervilliers, the Claude Bernard overpass, which bears the distinctive stamp of the DVVD architecture, design and engineering agency, has been in service since 2nd October 2015.
Design: CCD, architects
Marriott International’ image has undergone significant transformation from the original colorful and luxurious branding into the latest clean and elegant style. Without excessive decorations, the architectural structures have become even more prominent.
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.