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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Design: Gordon Bunshaft, redesign: HBRA Architects: following commencement ceremonies in May 2015, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library will close its iconic building for 16 months to undergo a major renovation that will replace its climate-control systems and double its classroom space.
This Upper Austria Arts building design by Terry Pawson Architects is an excellent – if rare – example of how an architect can win an open international competition by coming up with a bold brilliant idea that questions and extends the brief.
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has announced 13 winners, representing the very best of current Scottish architecture, at its annual Awards Dinner held in Glasgow last night.
Curated: Rem Koolhaas. The 14th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia under direction of curator Rem Koolhaas has opened to the public. XML is part of the main exhibition of this year’s Biennale with the contribution ‘Theaters of democracy’ in the section Monditalia.
At the annual RIAS Awards Dinner in Glasgow last night, Margaret Richards FRIAS was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS). The Incorporation’s Lifetime Achievement Award is given to those architects who, in the view of the Council of the RIAS, have made an outstanding contribution to architecture in Scotland.
At the annual RIAS Awards Dinner in Glasgow last night, Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs, Fiona Hyslop MSP, made a special presentation from the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service in recognition of their outstanding work at the Glasgow School of Art fire on Friday 23rd May this year.
Samoo Architects & Engineers have recently unveiled the design for a new headquarters building for ‘Home & Shopping’, one of Korea’s well-known TV home shopping corporation.
Design: Grid Architects and Maccreanor Lavington. Wandsworth Council has approved plans to replace the Christies Fine Arts Warehouse in Nine Elms with a mixed use development including 510 homes and new cultural space.