Manhattan Mountain Lower East Side Building

Recent news coverage for the 7-acre parcel, Manhattan’s biggest undeveloped, publicly owned development site south of 96th Street, has provided the chance to contemplate many important urban issues.

Land Transport Excellence Awards, Asia

313@Somerset - Land Transport Excellence Awards 2012 Winner

Aedas is delighted to announce that 313@Somerset and Marina Bay MRT Station were awarded respectively Best Design Land Transport Integration and Best Design Rail / Road Infrastructure – Project Partner at the recent Land Transport Excellence Awards.

Keynsham Town Centre: Regeneration, Library

The application contains proposals for 20,000 sqft of new retail and restaurant space, a new civic building with One Stop Shop and library, community meeting and performance space, Council office space, plus new streets and spaces.

Rethink Hotels Competition, Open Contest

The natural next step, of course, is to open a hotel. Anyone with enough money can open a solid-gold luxury hotel. Tablet’s hotel would be up for a conceptual challenge, tackling what might be hospitality’s hardest problem

Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon

Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon

London-based theatre design consultancy Charcoalblue’s work is clearly making waves on both sides of the ‘pond’ as the multi-award-winning transformation of the Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres wins the prestigious USITT 2012 Architecture Honor Award

University of Oregon Department of Architecture

How does architecture act as an interface between seemingly disparate environments, social structures, and contextual anomalies? In what ways is, ‘interface’ challenged or guided by the concept of ‘appropriateness’?

Bank of Chéngdu Headquarters, Sichuan

Bank of Chéngdu Headquarters, Sichuan

For the Bank of Chengdu headquarter building an impressive 100m cube is created by connecting two highly flexible, 100m long office towers with a variety of common areas including an entrance lobby, a multi-purpose hall, a conference center, and a banker’s club for a total 1 Million square meters of built up floor area.

Floating House IJburg Amsterdam property

waterwoning Floating House IJburg Amsterdam Property

This house is a search for the balance between openness and a sense of security in an urban setting – with the wish for an optimal flow of the in- and outside spaces. The gardens are a green intermediate between the private and public space

MedaTeca, Italian Library Building: Meda

MedaTeca, the new library of Meda’s township design by Alterstudio Partners, a modern cultural hub of more than 1.900 sq. m. entirely devoted to culture, information and spare time, connected with others 30 libraries of BrianzaBiblioteche’s System