Thaihot Fuzhou Mall in China

Thaihot Fuzhou Mall

Design: SPARK

Fuzhou Wusibei Thaihot Plaza’s central location at WuSi Bei Dajie, Jinan District makes it Fuzhou’s most successful retail mall. Its design enhanced Thaihot’s brand as a forward thinking innovative retail developer.

Doncaster Civic Office, Yorkshire commercial property

Doncaster Civic Office

Design: Cartwright Pickard Architects. Doncaster Council’s new Civic Offices assist the Council to rationalise their estate, bringing many departments together under one roof in a purpose-built, low energy building.

Cartwright Pickard Architects worked alongside Muse Developments and Wates Construction to deliver this new BREEAM Excellent workplace for up to 1,600 staff.

La Caracola seashore house, Pacific Ocean

La Caracola seashore house

Design: PAUL CREMOUX studio. Located at Tres Vidas Golf Course seashore of the Pacific Ocean, this house is integrated by a set of boxes that are displayed in order to enjoy a variety of different views.

The heart of the house remains as an open central space which gathers the ground level deck and the swimming pool area. These four boxes integrate indoors and outdoors, relating private areas with the public ones. Designed to produce large overhangs, concrete boxes act as grate shaders ideal for this tropical climate.

Luminous Tokyo Tower Building

Luminous Building Tokyo

Nine storey commercial building design by Jun Sakaguchi Architect – reminiscent of a spine, a vertebral column formed from concrete, each floor as a vertebra. Crowned with a penthouse rising above the 31m height limit but within the set-back line, the building glows like finely cut jewellery.

The Library House, Bangalore Property

Library House Bangalore

Design: Khosla Associates. The brief for this house was a well-articulated document that delved into the nuances of how this family of 3 wanted to live. The family, comprising an entrepreneur-industrialist, married to a bohemian writer and with a teenage daughter, wanted the house to reflect the diverse range of their lives.
The clients required privacy from staff and casual visitors. They needed a peaceful oasis from the stresses of life.

St Paulo Church, Foligno Building

Chiesa di San Paolo Apostolo

Design: Studio FUKSAS, Architects. “Suspending a volume inside another. Seeing the sky through the concrete from the outside, into the inside, toward the outside”. Massimiliano Fuksas

58ha Factory Transformation in Moscow

58ha Factory Transformation

MVRDV win 58ha Serp & Molot factory transformation in Moscow. Built in 1884, the Serp & Molot steel factory in Moscow was a stronghold during the Russian revolution.In the past decades it fell into disrepair – unused and overgrown with plants.

Burrell Street Sexual Health Centre, London

Burrell Sexual Health Centre

Design: Urban Salon

Urban Salon’s first project for the NHS, the Burrell Street Sexual Health Centre came out of a design competition that engaged designers & architects from outside the healthcare specialism.

Chaoyang Park Plaza Beijing buildings, China

Chaoyang Park Plaza

Architect: MAD. As a recent realization of the concept Shanshui City, Chaoyang Park Plaza has begun construction. It marks another milestone in one of the practices of MAD’s design theory. This project pushes the boundary of the urbanization process in modern cosmopolitan life by creating a dialogue between artificial scenery and natural landscapes.

Fortnum Mason Concept Store, St Pancras

Fortnum Mason

Design: Speirs + Major

Fortnum & Mason Concept Store, St Pancras Lighting by Speirs + Major

In designing the store, Universal Design Studio worked to capture the quintessentially British spirit of the brand, while making it relevant to the modern customer.

Residence Ödberg, Klosterneugurg

Villa Oedberg

Design: project A01 architects. The idea to build a residence with a central courtyard, following the well-known case study houses, was the initial approach for the project

Casa Guaiume in São Paulo

Casa Guaiume

Design: 24.7 Arquitetura Design

The site is located in Sousas, one of four districts from the city of Campinas-São Paulo, a place that keeps very peculiar characteristics, with provincial air, protected from Campinas high degree of industrialization even though being situated only 10 km from the busy downtown.
The building sits over the highest part of condo and overlooks Serra das Cabras southwest portion, the highest point of Campinas.

Pavilion for the Opera House in Copenhagen

Opera House Pavilion

Design: C. F. Møller Architects

With a new pavilion, the guests for the Opera House in Copenhagen and other visitors to Holmen will have a place of shelter while waiting by the water bus quay.

The Opera Pavilion is located at the quay just outside the Opera House in Copenhagen. The floating pavilion can accommodate 200 waiting persons, and the pavilion can be touched at by two water busses at the same time.

Taberner House Croydon, Queen’s Gardens

Taberner House

Design: make. Planning permission has been granted for the Taberner House development in the heart of Croydon. The proposal by make architects for a high quality, sustainable development will deliver the aspirations of the Mid-Croydon Masterplan and the Opportunity and Area Planning Framework on behalf of the Croydon Council Urban Regeneration Vehicle, a partnership between Croydon Council and John Laing.