Park Afyon Shopping Mall, Afyonkarahisar
DuPont Tyvek FireCurb Housewrap enhances safety at the Park Afyon SM shopping mall, in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey: an advanced flame retardant membrane, has been specified to help build in greater safety.
La Taule Training Center in Waterloo building
The new sports centre, La Taule, designed by the architectural firm Microclimat, embodies the vision of a former Olympic athlete and participates in the revitalization of Waterloo, in the Eastern Townships.
MIMA Light Modular Construction
Design: MIMA Lab. MIMA Light is the ultimate achievement in modular construction, combining an outstanding lightness with an iconic and minimal image. This home seems to levitate above the ground due to the lining of the base with mirrors
Titus Vineyards in Saint Helena, Napa Valley
The Titus brothers reached out to MH Architects to explore the concept of a new winery facility located in Napa Valley in 2012. The client’s stated goal was to express the spirit of Titus Vineyards wine through the architectural components of the winery design
Best Industrial and Logistics Development Award
Bogle Architects wins ‘Oscars of the property world’ for research centre in Prague: ‘Best industrial and logistics development’ MIPIM Award for ELI Beamlines project.
Open Architecture Collaborative: OAC
International offshoots of the organization known as the “Chapters” were preserved by volunteers in over 30 cities around the world and have formed the Open Architecture Collaborative (OAC) to bring humanitarian design back to the mainstream.
Concrete House in Even Yehuda, Israel Property
Design: Studio Ron Shenkin. The Concrete House building consists of two rectangles placed perpendicularly on top of each other. The two rectangles connected by a bare concrete strip with a wooden like texture, formed by the formwork from where it was produced, this concert strip act as a ribbon, wrapping the rectangles together.
Eastbourne Beach Huts, Sussex
The competition for Eastbourne’s Iconic Beach Competition has reached its climax as judges announce the winners.
Villa 4.0 Hilversum, Netherlands Residence
Villa 4.0., Hilversum, The Netherlands. Dutch studio Mecanoo has completed the last of a series of renovations on a 1967 home in Hilversum, The Netherlands, called Villa 4.0., reports designboom. The original building completed in 2011 was designed by dick van gameren in collaboration with iding interior design and michael van gessel landscape.
Dublin Building Designs: Architecture
Dublin building designs, new architecture in Ireland: architectural news, contemporary Irish built environment updates & architectural links – key Dublin construction design info + property images
Arizona Center for Law and Society Phoenix
Design: Tomas Rossant of Ennead Architects, with Jones Studio. With the state of the country’s legal education a hot topic of current debate, Arizona State University is poised to reinvent the law school experience—both in program and design—with its new Arizona Center for Law and Society.
Regents Place: Triton Square, London
Regents Place – architecture info + photos. Key buildings at Triton Square, off Euston Road in North London, designers include Sheppard Robson Architects ; Wilkinson Eyre Architects; Munkenbeck and Marshall Architects; Farrells
Bayside development in Toronto Lakeshore region
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.
Celeste Necklace, Swarovski Zaha Hadid Design
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.