Design: Handel Architects. This building creates a new terminus for W68th Street. Located between Central Park and the open space of the Lincoln Towers superblock. The building’s exoskeleton defines the external architecture
Studio C102 has completed the fit-out of the latest 1Rebel, a 8500sqft luxury gym located in the newly redeveloped Broadgate Circle, London.
Design: Moxon Architects. Nestled in a manmade bowl carved out of the landscape, Quarry House is concealed from public view in a wooded site in the Cairngorms National Park
Design: gmp. New headquarters for the 4,000 employees of CNPEC, the power corporation, are being built in Shenzhen to plans by gmp Architects – von Gerkan, Marg and Partners.
The BigMat Group distributors of construction materials has announced the winners of its 2015 BigMat International Architecture Award, in its second international edition.
Design: Skene Catling de la Pena. The site is a seam of flint geology surrounded by ploughed fields with the flints sitting on the surface. The project is conceived as two wedges of that geology thrusting up through the flat landscape
Design: vPPR Architects
This family house, built on the walled site of a former taxi garage, is almost entirely hidden in the middle of a Victorian block in Chiswick. The approach is via a covered passage, beyond which is a brick-lined front porch.
A new “fly on the wall” book traces the trajectory of architect Frank Gehry’s first Australian project, from concept to completion. Gehry in Sydney: The Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, is edited by Dr Liisa Naar and Professor Stewart Clegg of UTS Business School, Sydney
Grand Designs House of the Year 2015
Skene Catling de la Pena win with Flint House, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, England
Tomás Saraceno’s artistic project Aerocene is a series of air-fuelled sculptures that will float in the longest, most sustainable journey around the world without engines, becoming buoyant only by the heat of the Sun and infrared radiation from the surface of Earth.
The Mill, Scottish Borders by WT Architecture – shortlisted for the RIBA House of the Year
Borders Steading is collection of disused farm buildings that nestles into a steep hill overlooking a valley in the Scottish Borders. The mill building was converted into modern, rural holiday home that retained much of its historic character.
The scheme design by Conran and Partners, located on the south-west edge of the city alongside the Tama River, comprises a total of 400,000 sqm of retail, office, leisure and residential building, as well as a new city park.
Design by Wilkinson King Architects
This stand-alone contemporary villa set in the Sussex countryside is an exceptional retreat. Externally the house is quietly confident, with its row of low-profile roof pyramids, windows positioned to take advantage of the views and a muted colour palette of materials.
Architects: Sofia Parente e André Delgado. The Nogueiras House occupies an existing stone construction in direct relation with the front patio and with views to the sea. Formerly used as a barn, it has now been converted into a house.