Next Tokyo Mile High Skyscraper: KPF
Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF). This mile-high tower is 420 stories tall. The skyscraper building design is for Next Tokyo, a conceptual Japanese megacity for a half million residents.
2016 Ada Huxtable Prize: Julia Peyton-Jones
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.
The Backyard Restaurant in New Delhi Green Park
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.
New Istanbul Airport Building, Air Terminal
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.
Financial Street Shanghai Railway Station
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.
House in Chitose, Ishikari, Hokkaido
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.
Overlook Guest House Los Gatos, Santa Clara
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.
King West Towers by Bjarke Ingels architect
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.
James Goldstein House in Beverly Hills, California
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).
Tozzer Anthropology Building Harvard University
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.
3d Printed Dichroic Light Diffuser Design
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
Link House in Sydney waterfront home, NSW
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.
Bath Western Riverside Masterplan
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 Southern California Institute of Architecture
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.