London Jewellers: Sloane Street jewellery shop
Sloane Street jewellery shop: Boodle & Dunthorne London – design by Eva Jiricna Architects – Sloane Street store, London jewellers, Boodles Knightsbridge
ENSAM School in Paris, Halles Technologiques
Design: Architecture Patrick Mauger. The renovation of the technological halls is the cornerstone of an ambitious renovation program that aims to give the ENSAM School a new face and allow it to stand out as an “engineering school of the future”, at the forefront of technological development.
Bamboo – Urban Metamorphosis, Italy
OAM Architecture is an idea, a “living creature” that has a genetic modified using new architectural techniques, which allow the addition, deletion or modification of gene elements
Smithfield Market London building, architecture
John McAslan’s Smithfield proposal is ‘sophisticated’, states English Heritage. Save Britain’s Heritage calls the plans the ‘worst mutilation of a major Victorian building in 30 years’. The market halls date from 1883, but derelict for the last 15 years, are facing a controversial £160m plan to scoop out their innards and insert six-storey blocks of shops and offices in their place.
Aula Medica in Solna, Sweden
Design: Wingårdh. Strange enough, no large auditorium was built at Karolinska Institutet when its campus was created in the 1940’s. Yes, there were intentions, but the medical university expanded in numbers as well as ranking without any possibility to assemble neither students nor scientists in large numbers.
Restaurant Universitaire Mabillon in Paris
Design: Architecture Patrick Mauger. Sixty years after it was first built, the CROUS Mabillon student restaurant has been restructured and renovated, and its façade cleverly utilised. The concrete frontage walls have been covered by split chestnut poles that allow the penetration of a filtered light that can be dimmed during the summer.
New Manchester School of Art Building
Design: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. Winner of RIBA Northwest Regional Award. This major refurbishment and extension to the Manchester School of Art has been executed with great skill by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.
Qantas New Business Lounge LAX
Global design and consulting firm Woods Bagot has designed the new Los Angeles Business Lounge for international airlines Qantas, Cathay Pacific and British Airways at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
Yap Summer Program in MAXXI, Italy Event
Cose Turche / ARCHITECTURE IN ISTANBUL
Implications and the meaning of a changing metropolis
Trädgårdsstaden, Garden City in Helsingborg
Design: Kjellander + Sjöberg Architects. K + S’ proposal the Trädgårdsstaden, Garden City in Helsingborg, has won the land transfer competition for Ringstorp in Helsingborg, issued by the municipality of Helsingborg, with developers Sundprojekt and Strabag.
Submarine Design Competition, matterbetter
Submarine Design Contest
Re-Think & Transform Typhoon Class Submarine Competition
Throughout the entire period of its existence, humankind was developing numerous methods of elimination of each other. And with invention of the nuclear weapons this desire has endangered the being itself. matterbetter researches how the design community in contemporary world can contribute to making this world a little safer and more friendly.
Bloomsbury Conservation Area
Design: TateHindle. Increased office space and decreased energy usage at refurbished building in London’s New Oxford Street. Despite a whole extra floor of space in the refurbished office building at 70 New Oxford Street in the Bloomsbury Conservation Area of London, energy usage has fallen by 40 per cent.
Town Hall Hotel & Apartments London
Design: rare architecture. Redeveloped into a Hotel & serviced Apartments, Conference facilities and a fine dining Restaurant & Bar, the sensitive design aims to preserve the building’s original features while integrating contemporary inserts, including tailored furniture elements and a bespoke roof extension.
100 Skyring Brisbane, Newstead, QLD
Although the building has not yet reached completion, Charter Hall’s $175 million 100 Skyring has already created a prominent gateway to the Gasworks precinct, heralding the continued evolution of Brisbane’s near city office market.