Virginia Beach Convention Center: VBCC Building

Virginia Beach Convention Center: VBCC Building

The Virginia Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) announces that the Virginia Beach Convention Center (VBCC) is the first convention center in the country to achieve LEED® Gold certification for Existing Buildings.

Shanghai Expo UAE Pavilion Building

Shanghai Expo UAE Pavilion Building

Foster + Partners’ design for the UAE pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo has opened. Drawing inspiration from the form of a sand dune: United Arab Emirates pavilion building in China.

Family Box Beijing design by crossboundaries

Family Box, Beijing Kindergarten building

Family Box is something between an indoor playground and a kindergarten for children up to twelve years old, but it also accommodates their parents’ needs. It hosts different kinds of activities – from swimming, playing games to various classes ranging from music, dancing, crafting to cooking.

Lyngby Town Hall, Denmark: Building Architects

Lyngby Town Hall by Jensen & Langkilde Architects, Denmark

This characteristic concave building is five stories tall and covered in green marble. When you walk all the way to the top of the building, windows in the public areas allow you to view across all of Lyngby’s rooftops and surrounding area

Holte Town Hall, Arne Jacobsen Architect, Denmark

The Søllerød Town Hall, completed in 1942, was designed in the Functionalist style by Arne Jacobsen and Flemming Lassen. Søllerød Council is situated approximately 20 kilometers north of Copenhagen, where the town of Holte is home to one of a number of Arne Jacobsen (1902-71) designed town halls (1938-42).

Meat Factory Nottingham building design

Meat Factory Nottingham building design

Meat Factory Nottingham building design by Marsh & Grochowski Architects, a domestic experiment in sustainable living, located in a deprived area of Nottingham and occupied by the architect owner

Amagertorv Copenhagen: Strøget Buildings

Mathias Hansen House at No. 6 was built in 1616 for Mathias Hansen, from 1622 the Mayor of Copenhagen. Typically of the Dutch Renaissance style, the house is built in red bricks with sandstone decorations, has a Dutch gable and a copper roof

Oslo House, Einar Bjarki Malmquist

Oslo House, Einar Bjarki Malmquist

“We weren¹t looking for a design house, just a solid, practical house. I love being outside, I would actually prefer to be outside all the time so it was very important to draw nature inside. I feel free here.”