Casa Brutale in Lebanon, Faqra Mountain House
OPA Open Platform for Architecture announce plans to begin construction of Casa Brutale building in Beirut, Lebanon. This new Lebanese property on Faqra mountain will be set at an altitude of 1600m.
Centre for Sustainable Development Montreal
Design: MSDL. This building is equipped with a geothermal heating and cooling system, a high-performance thermal envelope, triple-pane windows, and an approximately 800 sqm green roof.
Hegel Apartment in Mexico City
Design: Arqmov Workshop. The refurbishment of the Hegel Street apartment in Polanco, Mexico City, started with the idea that interior design should faithfully reflect the user’s lifestyle.
Elephant & Castle New Cultural Quarter, London
Design: SOM, architects. Twentieth Century Society criticism of 40-storey “cultural quarter” buildings at the Elephant & Castle, previously attacked by both Historic England and the Ministry of Sound.
Chalet La Pedevilla Residence, Tyrol
Design: Pedevilla Architects. Hamlets, also called viles in the regional dialect, are small urban settlements, a unique cultural & architectural tradition which evolved throughout the centuries.
Mar Adentro Hotel San José del Cabo
Design: Miguel Ángel Aragonés, architect. An expansive architecture using simple rectilinear forms, focused on water and the ocean beyond, designed in a crisp white palette.
European Prize for Urban Public Space Finalists
25 finalists selected from 276 entries, 2 awarded joint First Prize with 4 Special Mentions. The European Prize for Urban Public Space – a biennial architectural competition – recognizes and encourages recovery projects and defense of public space in cities.
Try-on Truck in USA, Retail Fitting Room
Design: SAW + MOA. American architectural offices Mobile Office Architects and Spiegel Aihara Workshop collaborated to develop the True & Co. ‘Try-On-Truck,’ a nomadic retail fitting room traveling across the United States.
La Palma House in Mexico City
Design: Miguel Angel Aragonés, architect. Mexico is a land ‘watched over by the Sun’. Why not take advantage of this legacy and make it an accomplice of architectural space, letting its powerful presence dwell in our interiors?
NYCHA Red Hook Houses New York by KPF
Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) architects. The New York City Housing Authority—the city’s largest landlord with 178,000 apartments—has committed to introduce solar panels on its roofs from 2017.
Yale Center for British Art, Building
Design: Louis Kahn architect
After a decade of planning, eight years of renovation and a 16-month closure, this masterpiece designed by the Philadelphia architect during the last 15 years of his life reopens to the public on May 11.
Doubletree by Hilton in Xishuangbanna
Design: OAD, architects
This secluded and tranquil hillside resort in Yunnan, China, develops its subtle and elegant design from the architects’ understanding of local culture and geography.
Drøbak Architecture Competition Frogn
Norwegian Architecture Competition – architects shortlist news: Snøhetta, Haptic, Niels Torp, Jarmund Vigsnæs and Stein Halvorsen. Run by Frogn kommune, the 11,000sqm project has to achieve Passivhaus levels of energy performance.
k.21 Skardsøya, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Design: TYIN Architects. The cottage holds a special place in contemporary Norwegian culture. A few generations back the majority of the Norwegian people made a living from farming, fishing or lumbering, trades which afforded closeness with nature.