National architecture figure to speak at university
One of Britain’s leading architects will visit Nottingham Trent University when it hosts a gala awards ceremony for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) East Midlands.
Sir Michael Hopkins CBE – who was knighted for services to architecture – will along with his wife, Lady Patty, be guest of honour at the event on 15 May.
PGA Catalunya Resort add a new show villa to its collection of world-leading properties, U-Selva, by award-winning architecture studios of Josep Camps and Olga Felip – combines classic architectural concepts with the latest construction techniques
Design: Urban Salon
The project came out of the Sorrell Foundation’s ‘joinedupdesignforschool’ programme where pupils are given control and responsibility as clients. From inception through to completion, the project team worked directly for a client team of 11 pupils selected from years 9 and 10.
This project design by A-cero, architectural studio of Joaquín Torres and Rafael Llamazares, is an interior design for an exclusive hotel in Thailand.
Located in the bucolic coast area of Natai Beach in Phuket, this place is characterized by its calm, the vast sands and the turquoise blue waters. The complex has 10 villas designed by different well-known international architects firms.
Andre Kikoski Architect completes the restaurant Sophie’s at Saks Fifth Avenue in Chicago, inspired by Sophie Gimbel, the iconic fashion designer and arbiter of American style at Saks for 40 years.
Design: Samoo Architects & Engineers. Planned as a 21st century business school that will be responsible for educating global leaders, the construction of Korea University’s Hyundai Motor Hall designed by Samoo Architects & Engineers has recently been completed.
Design: Ennead Architects, LLP with GSBS. The new Natural History Museum of Utah building is designed by Todd Schliemann of Ennead Architects. The building sits on a breathtaking 17-acre site overlooking the Salt Lake Valley, its commanding profile and copper skin blending seamlessly into the foothills of the Wasatch Mountain Range. Partners Schliemann and Don Weinreich led the Ennead design team, in association with David Brems and John Branson of GSBS (Gillies Stransky Brems Smith) of Salt Lake City.
Design: Nohr & Sigsgaard Architects
The new Bagsvaerd School in Denmark has been formed by amalgamating two local schools.
Split levels, double-height rooms and a high degree of transparency characterise the spacious complexity of this Danish education building, while the overall design and spaces have been well worked out with the finer details carefully considered in relation to colour, texture and materials.
Devereux Architects, London, England – buildings, UK practice, images – merger: contemporary British architecture practice, design office UK
Design: DENOLDERVLEUGELS. This is a renovation of an exclusive 300 sqm apartment in the ‘Amsterdam-Zuid’ area for a Dutch family. The apartment occupies the top 3 levels of a building complex built in 1925
Design: Building Trust International, Habitat for Humanity and Karuna Cambodia. Collaboration between three NGOs results in the construction of housing solutions that bring new life to housing design and delivery for low income families living in Cambodia.
Architectural practice TateHindle has secured planning permission for 35 Chancery Lane in London’s Midtown for Scottish Widows Investment Partnership with Endurance Land, SWIP’s strategic development partner.
Design: Marc Mimram
Marc Mimram, the award-winning Paris based architecture and engineering practice, has
completed the first phase of Strasbourg School of Architecture (Ecole Nationale Supérieure
d’Architecture de Strasbourg).
The building design by NKY Architects & Engineers in Bilkent, Ankara shares a limited land area of the project site with Atatürk Hospital and the Integrated Health Campus. The linear double corridor scheme of the old public buildings have been developed into a curvilinear scheme to overcome the problem of fitting into the limited site.