Harvard University receives final approval for Science and Engineering Complex designed by Behnisch Architekten – The proposed SEC is located on Harvard University’s emerging Allston campus, MA, USA
Design: Hariri Pontarini Architects – 2016 OAA Award in Design Excellence winner:
The Richard Ivey Building at Western University creates a vibrant, unified, campus for the Ivey Business School. The vision was to attract the best students and faculty, express Ivey’s global identity, and celebrate Western’s history.
Original Design: Dr. Pier Luigi Nervi. Construction on the terminal has been further delayed, pushing the opening date to December of 2016. GWBBS opened in 1963, designed by the noted Italian engineer-architect of the 1960 Olympic Stadium in Rome.
Design: Setless Architecture. Sited above the intersection of Tew’s Falls and Webster’s falls on the Bruce Trail, this house makes a strong connection to a singular landscape.
Design: team from Centre for Natural Material Innovation, University of Cambridge with PLP Architecture. No it isn’t April Fool’s Day, a 300-m high wooden skyscraper has been proposed for central London by a team of Cambridge architecture researchers.
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.
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.
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
Design: Studio Libeskind unveils the design for The Kurdistan Museum at the Bloomberg Businessweek Design conference in San Francisco, California, USA.
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.
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 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 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 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.