Kim Residence in California, USA home
Design: (fer) studio. The Kim Residence project is an extensive interior and exterior remodel, and a 900 SF expansion of an existing 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom single-story ranch-style home from the 1950’s.
LEAF Forum – Award Germany 2014
LEAF INTERNATIONAL is an exclusive forum for architects, developers, contractors, engineers and supplier partners. It is the only high level, one to one business development platform for leading specifiers and suppliers to discuss future building projects.
Triumph Architectural Treehouse Award UK
Triumph Architectural Treehouse Award Competition. 1st Place – Tree Hopper. The design shows a high level of creativity with its wonderfully executed futuristic aesthetics. It also presents a nice balance of Bio mimicry and commentary on the modern lifestyle.
September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion
Design: Snøhetta: Opening of National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion. On May 15, 2014, President Obama will be present for the dedication of the National September 11 Memorial Museum & Pavilion at the World Trade Center site
Casa FL 118 in Mexico Residence
Design: Raúl Peña A. Architects. A studio and a roof terrace in an adjoining house to the Frida Kahlo’s Garden ends facing Venustiano Carranza Street in La Conchita patrimonial wooded square.
Roca London Gallery Exhibition
London regeneration exhibition in building designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. Roca London Gallery will host a photographic exhibition during the London Festival of Architecture, exploring some of the Capital’s key regeneration projects.
Entitled Regenerating Capital: Healthy growth, healthy city?, the exhibition will look at the impact regeneration has on green spaces, small businesses, local communities and valued buildings.
Pop up Chandelier Pavilion in Camden Festival
Design: KSR Architects. To mark the start of the first ever Camden Create festival – a three day celebration of creativity in the area – local architectural practice KSR Architects has created a pop up public pavilion at the area’s famous Britannia Junction.
The colourful creation is made up of 640 fluorescent tubes, which will be held together by a lightweight theatre and stage truss system.
Goat Lees Primary School in Ashford
Pellings LLP, the multi-disciplinary architectural, property and construction practice has designed Goat Lees Primary School, a pioneering example of a modern school, located in Ashford, Kent.
New Public Realm for Arena Central in Birmingham
Landscape Architects: Gillespies. The design for the public realm of the 9.2 acre site breaks away from the conventional institutional finishes found on many mixed-use city centre schemes, with 40% of the space given over to soft landscaping
McKinnon Center for Global Affairs at Occidental College
Design: Belzberg Architects. The renovation and adaptive re-use of Occidental College’s historic Johnson Hall, integrates the enduring traditional qualities of a small liberal arts college with new educational practices.
The historic exterior of the building is preserved, whilst the interior is fundamentally rethought. The effect is fully transformative: rather than simply housing technology, the building has become technology itself.
ONE PRIZE Competition, Brooklyn Contest
ONE PRIZE 2014 Architecture Competition – Jury News. Open International Design Competition for Building a Vibrant Center for Design, Science and Education at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, run by Terreform ONE
This architecture competition is set in the context of the renovation of the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a green technology and sustainable manufacturing complex.
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman
Design: Foster + Partners. In a striking about-face, the New York Public Library has abandoned its much-disputed renovation plan to turn part of its research flagship on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street into a circulating library and instead will refurbish the nearby Mid-Manhattan Library.
New Fetter Place in London Holborn Circus
Design: TateHindle. New Fetter Place, the redevelopment adjacent to Holborn Circus, has been completed. It comprises a newly regenerated 12-storey octagonal shaped tower at 8-10 New Fetter Lane and a newly constructed six-storey link building at 55 Fetter Lane.
The design for the 135,000 sqft redevelopment included extensions to the octagonal shaped tower, a new façade, remodelled service core and new mechanical & electrical services to provide an additional 40% of Class A office accommodation.
ASB North Wharf Auckland building design
Design: BVN Donovan Hill with Jasmax
The New Zealand Architecture Medal is the highest architectural honour in New Zealand and is conferred upon just one project that is considered superlative.
ASB North Wharf in Auckland by Australian architects BVN Donovan Hill in association with New Zealand architects Jasmax received this coveted prize at the New Zealand Architecture Awards announced in Auckland on 9 May.