Museum of Ethnography Design Competition
The list of architect offices participating in the international design competition announced for the Museum of Ethnography is now finalised: fifteen architects offices.
SFMOMA Expansion: San Francisco building
SFMOMA’s 225,000-square-foot Snøhetta-designed expansion represents a transformation of the museum as a whole.
Westmoreland Museum in Pennsylvania Gallery
The new expansion and major renovation of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, USA, designed by Susan T. Rodriguez / Ennead Architects has launched a new era for the Museum.
Guangzhou Buildings: Guangdong Architecture
Guangzhou architecture, China – best new Guangdong buildings, architects & images – info on contemporary Guangzhou buildings, Chinese architecture developments
James Whitaker Photographs: Building Pictures
Photographs by James Whitaker – built environment pictures, building images – James Whitaker photos, architecture pictures, designs
Quitowers in Quito Buildings
Design: Chapman Taylor. Quitowers is a new residential tower project in Quito, the capital city of Ecuador. At 2,850 metres (9,350 ft) above sea level, Quito is the highest official Capital city in the world.
Univers Nuface Clinic Laval, Quebec, Canada
Design: ADHOC Architects’ team designed a space, which is both luminous, clean and fun. The challenge was to create in the new space a professional and immaculate image while also transmitting NuFace’s owner’s extravagant personality.
King William Performing Arts District in Hamilton, Ontario
Design: DPAI Architecture Inc. The King William Performing Arts District Concept Plan proposes the creation of an integrated, multi-use district centred on Theatre Aquarius with a mixture of performing arts, retail, commercial and residential.
Refurbishment at Oxford Brookes University
Berman Guedes Stretton has won planning for the refurbishment of the Sinclair Building, Clerici Building, Former Library and Main Hall at the Headington Campus of Oxford Brookes University
Flatiron House in Fitzrovia, London Home
FORMstudio’s Flatiron House makes a virtue of a redundant and impractical office building in central London, transforming it into a home described as ‘a staircase with rooms’.
Frederiksvej Kindergarten Copenhagen
The Frederiksvej Kindergarten in Copenhagen design by Danish architects COBE opens. It consists of 11 small houses with play spaces organized around two winter gardens, and will create a safe and playful village for 182 children.
Dame Zaha Hadid Architect
The globally-renowned architect Dame Zaha Hadid has received the 2016 Royal Gold Medal for architecture, the first woman to be awarded the prestigious honour in her own right. Zaha Hadid is internationally renowned for her built, theoretical and academic work.
Cabin Holdeskaret Hemsedal, Norway
Design: Lund Hagem Architects. Cabin Holdeskaret is a private winter retreat located in the mountainous district of Hemsedal. The cabin is situated right at the tree-line of the mountains, overlooking sweeping vistas in all directions.
Space Dundee Dance Theatre Building
The Space Dundee: Scottish Dance Theatre, Tayside, east Scotland design by Nicoll Russell Studios Architects – Space, Dundee College architecture