Vanke Retail Scheme in Beijing
Benoy, the international firm or Architects, Masterplanners, Interior and Graphic Designers, is the Interior Designer behind the first shopping mall for developer China Vanke Co Ltd.
House H in Salzburg Austria property
Design: smartvoll Architekten. We do not simply plan buildings. We think about how a house reacts to its surrounding, and the surrounding to the house. Interior life is as important as the environment. We set our hands on every detail from planning to realization.
House for a Photographer II, Spain
The house for the photographer II design by Carlos Ferrater is at the end of the plot. Constructed on a platform 70 cm high above the level of natural flood-able ground, three small irregular floor plan and section buildings dialogue through an empty space with fleeting views.
RIBA Awards 2014, Winning Buildings
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) reveals the winners of the 2014 RIBA National Awards, the most rigorously-judged awards for architectural excellence.
CTBUH Awards 2014, Best Tall Buildings
CTBUH Names Best Tall Buildings for 2014. Four buildings, from the United States, Australia, the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates, have been named the best tall buildings in the world for 2014 by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)
Wieden+Kennedy Office in New York
Design: WORKac. Renowned advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy has developed a global reputation for innovative work dating back to their early Nike campaigns in the 1980s
Buisson Residence – Virginia House
Design: Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, Architect
The journey down a winding road and through a pine tree forest ends at the Buisson Residence. Situated on a grass knoll and commanding views of Lake Anna in central Virginia, the house emerges as a long, white painted brick wall with a copper clad volume cantilevered above the wall.
House in The Beach Toronto property
Design: Drew Mandel Architects. Although it lacks a classic beach charm, the house has an elusive quality of heart and soul which the project team tried to uphold. Looking closely at the brick lines relative to the right angle of the new box window in the image of the front façade, the house leans to, or yearns for, the lake.
Powerhouse Kjørbo, Norway
Architect: Snøhetta
Powerhouse Kjørbo, located outside of Oslo, Norway, opened in April 2014 and is the first Powerhouse project to be completed by the group. By optimizing and combining existing technologies in new ways, the two office buildings from the 80s were renovated into positive-energy buildings.
FIABCI World Congress, Luxembourg
FIABCI, the International Real Estate Federation, has completed its 65th World Congress in Luxembourg from May 17-22, 2014. This was FIABCI’s 65th World Congress, which annually attracts global real estate industry leaders. This year’s event included over 1,000 attendees who participated in opportunities to network, build business, share experiences, advance industry knowledge and stimulate conversations.
Kraaiennest Metro Station in Amsterdam
Design: Maccreanor Lavington
Located in the still bleak Bijlmermeer Neighbourhood – the vast area of mass social housing developed in the 1960s and 1970s to the south-east of Amsterdam.
Tate Britain Building, London Architecture
Architects: Caruso St John. One of the world’s most famous and distinguished art galleries has completed a significant refurbishment, intended to extend the repertoire of social spaces inside the gallery.
This is the first phase in a programme called ‘Transforming Tate Britain’: a refurbishment of the south eastern galleries, the creation of a new schools’ area, a new café, bringing the upper level back into public use and opening up a new members’ area.
Scandicci New Centre in Florence Building
The piazza which lies at the heart of the project sits astride two pre-existing axial routes, and alongside six storey tenement style housing with shops built there in the 1950s and 60s. the intervention by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) takes the form of an ensemble of buildings.
Libertad 196 in Veracruz residence
Design: Gerardo Ars Arquitectura. Two houses built on a topographically hilly plot with a slope of 4 meters at the highest point; the project is located in the town of Boca del Rio, at the Port of Veracruz, Mexico.