The London Borough of Hackney has granted planning consent for Shoreditch Highgate Hotel, located at 201-207 Shoreditch High Street, East London. The project is being developed by owner Highgate Holdings and designed by Gensler.
Design: Gerry Judah. Six historic Lotus Formula 1 cars were incorporated in a spectacular sculpture by artist Gerry Judah that was the centrepiece of last weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, Britain’s largest car culture event.
Designed by Erick van Egeraat and Russian partner Mikhail Posokhin, architects of Moscow’s new VTB Arena: new Russian ‘masterpiece’ to be the center of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Design: Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes. The new headquarters for the social housing organization affirms its presence in the urban context by its dimension but the architectural expression is searching for lightness and transparency and avoids any monumentality.
Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture design a new office building for the steel manufacturer Lecor. The building is situated in Kungälv, 10 kilometers north of Gothenburg. Lecor manufacture advanced steel constructions and wanted to showcase their skills in their own building.
Danish architecture firm Henning Larsen Architects named as the design architects for a new educational facility, the French International School’s (FIS) Tseung Kwan O campus in Hong Kong.
Design: Archiscénographie Roland. By contrast, the second wing of the BPS22 was completely transformed into a huge “white box” covering a floor area of 800 sqm. It now meets museum standards and is best suited to museum type presentations.
Gerry Judah’s Centrepiece at the 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed celebrates the Mazda Motor Corporation’s unique motorsport heritage with a powerful fusion of sculptural innovation and engineering precision.
Design: 3TI PROGETTI. The design of the new Civic Centre in Villacidro is located in a site that is an important urban reference point for the city and its inhabitants, due to its history and its morphological and natural features.
Design: OAD. Sitting on the slope of a mountain the resort is constructed in such way that it naturally integrates itself into the local culture via architecture, planning, and detailing.
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.
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.
Together Arkitema Architects, Arkitema/ELN Architects and AART architects have designed Sykehuset Østfold Kalnes in Sarpsborg south of Oslo.
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