Flatiron Building New York: Daniel Burnham
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.
Nook Residence in Mansonville, Québec home
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.
Glass Office in Hong Kong Wai Yip Street
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 2016
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 Buildings: New York Architecture
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 – Architects Spain
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: Norwegian Architects
TYIN tegnestue news. Architects abased in Trondheim, Norway: contemporary Norwegian architecture practice with international work.
Circle Square Development Manchester
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.
RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship 2016
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.
Engineering Campus for Manchester University: Mecanoo
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.
Aesop Shop in Düsseldorf, Store
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.
Flexhouse on Lake Zurich, Switzerland
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.
The Citygate Tower in Vienna
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.
Ashden Awards 2016, Sustainable Energy Prize
Forward-thinking organisations in Lancashire, London and China win for their commitment to creating sustainable, healthy, energy efficient environments in homes and buildings.