Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. The 76m-high building provides space for over 1500 university students: home for the PolyU School of Design and newly-established Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects – the 85,000 sqft Rosenthal Center was the first U.S. museum designed by a woman and hailed by the New York Times as “the most important American building to be completed since the cold war.”
Design: APOLLO Architects & Associates . This building consists of a hybrid structure, with a podium on the 1st floor level composed of reinforced concrete and glazing, and wooden boxes configured in two floor levels and placed on top of the podium.
Design: Aileen Sage Architects with Michelle Tabet – new photos: intriguing exhibition using the pool as a lens through which to explore Australian cultural identity: an immersive experience to transport visitors poolside and evoke the pools of Australia.
Pier Luigi Nervi news: The George Washington Bridge Bus Station, opened in 1963, was designed by the noted Italian engineer-architect of the 1960 Olympic Stadium in Rome and other world-renowned structures.
Design: Stockwool, Architects. Approval for £10m scheme to transform a light industrial site into a vibrant mixed-use development of new homes and employment space. An existing building will be retained to house artist studios.
“Its conception is one of the most ambitious and comprehensive assertions of our will to create dynamic and fluid spaces. It blends formal geometric complexity with bold structures and an innovative use of materials. Architectural creation involves pushing the boundaries”
Design: APOLLO Architects & Associates. This small house located within a commercial area near Nagoya station is built on a lot with 43 sqm in steel frame structure of three levels, while building area is less than just 33 sqm.
Design: Jean Nouvel architecture. The renovation project of the City of Montpelier, designed by architect Jean Nouvel internationally in collaboration with François Fontès, has already become something of a badge of the French city.
Design: Studio RHE. Resolution Property plans to develop and enhance the site to create a new high-quality creative hub for digital businesses and independent retailers, together with loft-style upper floor apartments.
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects is part of the winning SPARK consortium to design the new 22,310 sqm Educational Facility at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht. This new Dutch building will house seven institutes as well as university facilities.
Design: Zalewski Architecture Group. The houses are designed in cuboid form covered with gable roof. The use of homogeneous, synthetic composition, coloring and choice of façade materials provide modern and coherent character of the houses.
Le Corbusier’s tapestry Les Dés Sont Jetés (The Dice Are Cast), commissioned by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, now hanging in the Sydney Opera House building, NSW, Australia.
The first London Design Biennale will open this September at Somerset House with over 30 countries participating. Nations from six continents will present newly commissioned works that explore the theme Utopia by Design.