NZIA Awards – New Zealand Architecture Prize
NZIA Awards, 2010, New Zealand Architecture Awards – info re buildings, architects, photos + winners : contemporary New Zealand Architecture: NZIA prize
Waitomo Glowworm Caves, Otorohanga
The ancient Waitomo caves were formed from the limestone transported by water over thousands of years. The architecture of the new visitor’s center emphasises the connection with the Waitomo stream and the flows of water running through the caves.
Butler House, Melbourne Home
Nestled within the undulated roofline of one of Fitzroy’s famed MacRobertson warehouses, sits a roof terrace with a difference – complete with canopy and turf.
Bay Residence, The Hamptons House
This waterfront property unfolds in a sequence of views, both revealed and concealed, a kind of Kabuki shadow play that starts at the driveway and snakes down the entire length of the five-acre lot.
Hillside House, German Home: 3deluxe in/exterior
3deluxe are currently planning a superlative private residence: The two-storey luxury bungalow with an effective area of roughly 650sqm is defined by a coherent design concept, individualised down to the last detail.
Cleveland State University Student Center, Ohio, USA
Working with firm Braun & Steidl Architects, GSAA has designed a refreshingly contemporary structure that gives a new sense of place to the university–and reconnects the university to the city of Cleveland.
Luxembourg-Kirchberg New Trade Fair Park
1. prize for Pohl Architekten Stadtplaner/Jena with SteinmetzDeMeyer architectes urbanistes/ Luxembourg, Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering/Stuttgart, New York and Hausladen Ingenieure/Munich.
AirBaltic Terminal Riga, Latvian building competition
AirBaltic Terminal Riga, Latvia architecture competition. Building design is exciting opportunity to look critically at the prevailing airport typologies, especially as they relate to a new smaller, single airline terminal of the future
Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards
Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards – 2010 Winners : architects, buildings, images, news, designs – Australian Architecture Awards, AIA Prize
Lyon Housemuseum, Kew, Melbourne Building
The Lyon Housemuseum speculates on the conjunction of art and living, challenges conventional notions of ‘public’ and ‘private’ and explores new relationships between art and architecture through a new hybridised architectural type – a ‘housemuseum’.
Christian IV Bryghus, Copenhagen Museum
Brisac Gonzalez completed design proposals for the new premises of the Københavns Museum within the confines of the historically significant Christian IV Bryghus in the heart of Copenhagen
Bruce Graham Architect: Chicago Architecture
Bruce Graham Architect, SOM Buildings, America, Design, Chicago, Sears Tower, Office Bruce Graham, Skidmore Owings & Merrill : Information Contemporary Architecture Practice in Chicago, USA 28 Oct 2010 Bruce Graham Tribute Late SOM Architect Bruce Graham Honored after Forty-Year Career in Chicago Tribute to Mastermind of the Willis (Sears) Tower and John Hancock Center Included … Read more
Indian Ocean Tsunami Memorial, London
The single granite monolith will be sited in the Darwin Centre garden at the Natural History Museum thanks to a £550,000 grant from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). It is expected to be completed next spring
Vietcombank Ho Chi Minh City Headquarters
Ground was broken Thursday for Vietcombank Tower, the Ho Chi Minh City headquarters of Vietcombank and Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects’ first building in Vietnam.
Post-Traumatic Urbanism Book: Architecture
Blasted buildings and bombs, tsunamis, tornadoes and typhoons highlight ‘cities in trauma’ in our daily news. Urban spaces bear the bruises and scars of these disasters. How are the reverberations of trauma to be understood in urban terms?
Villa Menaggio, Lake Como House, Italy
This Lake Como vacation home is in the town of Menaggio, Italy. The owners are a young Russian couple, the husband a well-known Moscow media mogul.
Architecture and Field/Work Book: Publication
Positioned at a point of interchange between the disciplines of architecture and anthropology, this book is the first to identify and to critique key terms, techniques, methodologies and habits comprising our understanding of fieldwork in architecture.