Serpentine Galleries director Julia Peyton-Jones wins Architectural Review’s 2016 Ada Huxtable Prize
The award recognises individuals working in the wider architectural industry who have made a significant contribution to architecture and the built environment.
Sited amidst the busy streets of Green Park, New Delhi, Group DCA architects was asked to create a café cum bar that calls itself the Backyard and even amidst the framework of chaos provides an aura of relaxation and happiness by means of every detail.
Design: Grimshaw, Nordic Office of Architecture and Haptic Architects. Shortlisted for MIPIM “Best Futura Mega Project Award”: Terminal 1 of the Istanbul New Airport will be the world’s largest airport terminal under one roof.
Chicago-based architecture firm Goettsch Partners and Hong Kong-based studio Lead 8 won the design competition for a new 264,000-sqm multi-building mixed-use complex: Financial Street Shanghai Railway Station.
Design: Hironari Itoi of sside architects. This plan began in a heavily populated residential area. The are contains a swatch of mid and high rise buildings, meaning there is not much light left over for the low-risers.
Design: Schwartz and Architecture. Despite an extremely steep, almost undevelopable, wooded site, this house creates a fully accessible indoor/outdoor dwelling to allow an aging family member to remain close by at home.
Design: BIG Architects “How can architecture create communities?” The title of a Bjarke Ingels talk captures BIG’s ambition for a site on downtown Toronto’s King Street West.
The owner of John Lautner’s Beverly Hills space-age masterpiece – James Goldstein – has promised the estate and its contents to Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Design: KVA. Modern-era buildings are aging on campuses across America, due to obsolete building codes that cannot meet contemporary envelope, seismic, public access and energy requirements.
Design: Dr. Margot Krasojevic. The light’s frame is printed in ceramic, the inner network of chambers hold the LED’S, directing and choreographing light through the entire structure
Design: Renato D’Ettorre Architects: set on on of Sydney’s stunning waterways, the design of this house attempts to blur the boundary between the inside and the outside whilst maintaining a strong sense of distinction between privacy and openness.
Design: ColladoCollins Architects
Meyer Homes has been granted planning consent by Bath and Northeast Somerset Council to redevelop the former Bath Press site.
SCI-Arc appoint Graham Harman, Ph.D. to its Liberal Arts Faculty. Also, MAIN EVENT 12 will take place March 12 at Sound Nightclub in Hollywood.
Design: OB Architecture. The architects were invited to design the refurbishment of a derelict workshop building as a headquarters for a British automotive company specialising in the servicing, restoration and racing of cars.