Design: ODA. The practice of orienting a home to the path of the sun is as old as civilization itself, and in nature, significantly predates it. Just as plants and flowers orient themselves to the sun through phototaxis, the newest building designed by ODA New York, appears to be doing the same.
Fluid movements leading to dynamic forms, the celeste jewellery pieces reflect the seamless complexity of the vision Zaha Hadid has explored and developed over the past three decades.
Design: BTE Architecture. Located on a peninsula overlooking the UK’s largest stretch of inland water, Loch Lomond: the viewpoint takes the shape of a triangular platform and is positioned at the end of a long curved path stretching form the car park to the highest point of the peninsula.
Design: blaanc, architects. Implanted on a large agricultural estate, the house is built in the middle of the property’s vineyard on an almost flat terrain adjacent to a cork oak forest. The one storey building slips easily into the calm and serenity of the surroundings.
Design: Mott MacDonald: the AU$63 million redevelopment of Flinders University’s Plaza and Student Hub has been completed in Adelaide, Australia. Mott MacDonald provided project management, environmental and independent technical review services during the redevelopment.
Design: LUMO Architects. Enjoy nature and the great outdoors from a series of designed shelter constructions and camp sites: 19 locations along the coasts of the South Fyn Archipelago.
Design: Rogers Stirk Harbour Partners with Arup. Skyfarm was initiated as a research project in response to the 2015 Milan Expo theme ‘feed the world’. It is said that by the year 2050 nearly 80 per cent of the earth’s population will reside in urban centres.
Fletcher Priest Architects wins planning permission for a scheme to revive one of London’s most idiosyncratic and popular locations, the urban quarter that is home to the Piccadilly Lights and the historic Rainbow Corner.
Design: Frédérique Pyra Legon architecte. Purchasers of this small villa of 80 sqm modern style about 1960 are a couple with two young children ages, living in Paris and who want a second home by the sea
Proposals to further transform the Royal Docks and deliver 24,000 new homes announced by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson MP. Chinese developer ABP has secured planning permission for a large financial and business district at Royal Albert Dock that will generate £6 billion to the London economy.
DES Architects + Engineers complete the Moffett Place High Garden — a two-acre rooftop park — in the heart of Silicon Valley at Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County, California. It is one of the largest elevated parks ever completed in the region.
Design: Eller + Eller Architekten. High rise office building design for BASF SE in Ludwigshafen, Germany, awarded the prestigious ‘Overall Winner’ prize at the conclusion of the Architectural Review MIPIM Future Projects Awards ceremony.
Design: Oz Architects – Tommy Bahama Honolulu Restaurant Bar & Store chose the vibrant beachfront neighbourhood of Waikiki as the location for their newest opening.
Modernist American Houses: an article in The Guardian about sales of 20th Century residences in the US by revered Modernist architects,