Fonte Boa House in Portugal Property
Design: João Mendes Ribeiro. The Fonte Boa House is a single family house designed in a rural estate in Fartosa, Fonte Boa, in the centre of Portugal.
AIA Gold Medal 2016 Winners, Architects
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) award Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi the 2016 AIA Gold Medal, the organization’s highest honor. Seattle’s LMN Architects received the Firm of the Year Award.
Oestfold Kalnes Hospital in Sarpsborg
Together Arkitema Architects, Arkitema/ELN Architects and AART architects have designed Sykehuset Østfold Kalnes in Sarpsborg south of Oslo.
German Hat Museum Lindenberg
Design: ATELIER BRÜCKNER. The Bavarian Museum Award, which comes with a prize money of 20,000 euros, will be presented to the German Hat Museum this year.The celebration will take place in 2015 in Lindenberg im Allgäu
Cube-2-box House in Myslowice, Poland
Redevelopment of a small single-family house from the 1970s located in Mysłowice, Poland, design by Zalewski Architecture Group. The main aim was to increase usable area of the house and improve building standards.
Stealth House on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Design: Teeland Architects: one of the challenges was to configure a design that enabled the house to have views towards the ocean to the east, as well as maximizing the north facing glass to capture winter sun and north views to the creak and rainforest.
Waschhaus Housing and Office in Andechs
Design: Buero Wagner
As a commodity of the Benedictine abbey Saint Bonifaz in Munich, the monastery ensures the financial basis of the abbey’s pastoral, social and cultural work – according to the credo “ora et labora – pray and work.”
RIAS Festival of Architecture 2016, Scottish events
UK’s Richest Architecture Prize winners news. The programme looks promising, a good balance between looking inwards – engaging with non-architects – and looking outwards – to fellow cities.
De Bazaar Mihrab Beverwijk: Indoor Market
Design: Liong Lie Architects
De Bazaar is the largest indoor market of Europe. Mihrab is a new shopping area within it, inspired by the kaleidoscopic folklore of the East.
Garden House Portland: SE Clinton Home
Design: Waechter Architecture
Juror Kevin Daly said, “One of the things that is really striking about this project was it took three or four very onerous zoning requirements and turned them into real attributes of the project.”
Roca Llisa Estate on Ibiza, Balearic Islands
Design: SAOTA & ARRCC. The Roca Llisa estate is an enclave of luxury, enjoying a calmness that is in contrast with the more frantic lifestyle of the other centres of the island.
National Sawdust Brooklyn Building
Design: Bureau V, Architects with Arup, Adopting the name of the factory once housed within the century-old building’s shell, National Sawdust provides composers and musicians a place to receive commissioning support, mentoring and critical resources.
53 Wellington Street Revitalization Hong Kong
Design: 4N Design Architects. Bold conversion of post-war colonial era of British Hong Kong building, along a busy street in Central, with a new aluminum façade.
SCI-Arc Shanghai, China Architecture
The Southern California Institute of Architecture launches SCI-Arc Shanghai, a New International Platform. New Director Hernan Diaz Alonso states, “SCI-Arc has become a mature, vital, and innovative institution operating on an international stage. We’re getting the school more and more involved on a global level.”