Chapel of Living in Utrecht Building
An old Catholic church building is transformed into one spatial residence by Zecc Architects. The character of the small church is retaind and where possible reinforced.
Noma Restaurant Sydney
Design: Foolscap Studio. Noma Australia is a temporary restaurant for Noma Copenhagen sited within the sculptural Anadara building in Sydney Australia’s Bangaroo precinct on the western edge of Sydney Harbour.
Invisible Border Installation in Milan design by MAD
Design: MAD. “Our installation blurs the boundaries between the traditional and the contemporary. You see the difference in each end, but the transition is very organic. It’s like we open up a conversation between the past and the present.” – Ma Yansong
The Kurdistan Museum in Erbil Building
Design: Studio Libeskind unveils the design for The Kurdistan Museum at the Bloomberg Businessweek Design conference in San Francisco, California, USA.
Creative City Campus Toronto McCaul Street
Design: Diamond Schmitt Architects. OCAD University is a jewel in the Ontario post-secondary education crown. For nearly 140 years, the province’s only — and Canada’s largest — art, design and new media university has offered a unique studio-based learning environment.
Canterbury Road Residence in Toorak
Design: B.E Architecture. Like a naturally occurring trilithon found in rock formations, the Canterbury Road Residence is made up of three simple structures, clad in rough lavastone stacked to form a contemplative passageway.
LEAF Awards 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award news
LEAF International announced today that Santiago Calatrava, esteemed architect, engineer and sculptor, is the recipient of the LEAF Award’s 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Piers Gough Architect: CZWG Architects
Piers Gough news – Back to the City Conference, GSA, Scotland. Keynote speakers include: Sjoerd Soeters, Piers Gough, Theodor Winters and Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Conference by the Mackintosh School of Architecture at The Glasgow School of Art.
Studio KAP Architects Glasgow, Buildings
Studio KAP news
Christopher Platt to speak at Back to the City Conference. Conference organisation by Florian Urban and Ambrose Gillick at the Glasgow School of Art, DOCOMOMO International and Miles Geldinning and Ruxandra Stoica at University of Edinburgh.
Wood for Good Conference in Edinburgh
This one-day event explores new initiatives in the design of timber housing, the technologies emerging and the resources available in Scotland to research and develop ideas for new timber products and systems.
Tegnestuen Vandkunsten Architects Denmark
Tegnestuen Vandkunsten news – Back to the City Conference, GSA, Scotland. Keynote speakers include: Sjoerd Soeters, Piers Gough, Theodor Winters and Kathleen James-Chakraborty.
Casa Ald in Mexico City Residence
Design: spAce Architects. Casa Ald, a new house in Mexico City designed by architects spAce, that combines a balance between modernity and cosiness, has been completed.
Smithsonian Institution Master Plan Washington DC
Design: BIG architects. Nearly 1,400 people have signed a petition in opposition to Bjarke Ingels’ proposal to demolish a portion of the Smithsonian Institution campus: the Enid A Haupt Garden, which would be razed to make way for a new plaza.
Former US Army Barracks Mannheim
Architects MVRDV partnered with Traumhaus, a housing producer which focuses on low-cost high-quality homes based on standardised elements, to design 27.000sqm of housing, gardens and public spaces.