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.
House for a Musher: Alaskan Residence
House for a musher is situated on a 20 acre plot at the edge of a small town surrounded by small lakes and meadows. The site is on a hill, left behind by the forces of the glacial moraine landscape.
Natural Science Center Denmark Building
The Danish building situated in Bjerringbro far away from the capital Copenhagen even went as far as getting cited by the World Architecture Community Awards
Pacific Palisades Residence, Los Angeles House
Designed for a young couple with two children, the house addresses the formal and informal needs of the family while taking advantage of the Southern California climate and views.
Arup Scotland Office: Scotstoun House
The refurbishment and extension of Scotstoun House may have been a relatively small project but it included many of the design issues which are particularly relevant today.
House with Balls, Ahmedabad Property, India
The starting point in the derivation of this house for an aquarium shop owner is the 600 sq-yard plot and the east sun. The program asked for four separate fish breeding tanks, an observatory which could double up as weekend living space, a private sleeping area and a caretaker’s suite.
Gola Forest, Sierra Leone Building
Man’s obsession with marking out his land is not new. Even the World Bank currently has a program dedicated to assigning land tenures to vulnerable populations.
Qui Nhon City House, Vietnam Property
This house was designed by Tran Tien Khoa as architect of Sai Gon Bach Khoa Architectural Design company in Vietnam. The client’s required the design of a small area in her area accommodating a single family with two children.
The Humanities in Architectural Design, Book
Offering an in-depth consideration of the impact which humanities have had on the processes of architecture and design, this book asks how we can restore the traditional dialogue between intellectual enquiry in the humanities and design creativity.
Bunker 599: Atelier de Lyon, Rietveld Landscape
This project lays bare two secrets of the New Dutch Waterline (NDW), a military line of defence in use from 1815 until 1940 protecting the cities of Muiden, Utrecht, Vreeswijk and Gorinchem by means of intentional flooding.
Plaza Residences, Mexico City Residential Tower
Due to the redesign and recovery of the Historic Center of Mexico City, Paseo de la Reforma, one of the most important avenues of the city, reemerges as the most beautiful commercial, cultural and historic avenue of the metropolis.
Abu Dhabi Ladies Club, UAE Waterfront Building
Construction is now well advanced on the Abu Dhabi Ladies Club by Tony Owen Partners and UPA planning. This unique facility has been designed specifically for women in the UAE. It provides a range of health, education, child care and sporting facilities for women.
Windhover: Contemporary Dublin House
Within this suburban end of terrace double-breasted period house the rear return is remodeled and a new external pavilion designed to provide contemporary garden focused living spaces.
Chesterwood Barn Gallery & Visitor Center
This project consisted of designing an addition to a historic barn to provide a visitor center for Chesterwood, the summer home and studio of the sculptor Daniel Chester French, now a museum owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.