Winspear Opera House Dallas Arts building

Winspear Opera House

Architect: Foster + Partners – part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, the new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House in Dallas redefines the essence of an opera house for the twenty first century, breaking down barriers to make opera more accessible for a wider audience.
Responding to the Dallas climate, a generous solar canopy extends from the building, revealing below a fully glazed sixty foot high lobby. Beneath the canopy, a shaded pedestrian plaza creates a major new public space for the city.

Confluence Institute Architecture, Lyon

Confluence Institute for Innovation and creative strategies in Architecture

Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture. Design: Studio Odile DECQ architectes urbanistes. The Confluence is a new institution for architectural education and research based on an evolving and radical understanding of research, experimentation and trans-disciplinarity.

Scottish Design Awards Shortlist 2014

Vale Centre For Health Care

Scottish Design Awards 2014. Shortlist announced for major architectural prize in Scotland Architecture Panel: Ben Addy of Moxon, Chris Wilkinson of Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Tony Skipper of JMP, Graham Stirk of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.

Wanda Reign Hotel facade in Wuhan, Hubei

Wanda Reign Hotel Facade

Make Architects commissioned by Wanda Group to design the unique facade for the premium Wanda Reign Hotel building in Wuhan, China. The design of the luxury hotel facade is characterised by a compilation of 902 hexagonal modules.

Tuncer Cakmakli Architects Istanbul, Buildings

Tuncer Cakmakli architect

Turkish architect at the Venice Architecture Biennale. At the 14th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, 2014, Ytong is sponsoring the presentation of Tuncer Cakmakli from Istanbul. At the invitation of the GlobalArtAffairs Foundation (GAA), the Turkish planner will present three of his current designs at the Palazzo Bembo

Zen Garden House, Colorado Retreat

Zen Garden House

Design: David Jay Weiner, Architects – this project is a response to a client’s desire to build a small retreat in the high dessert of the San Luis Valley (elevation +8,500 ft.) with stunning views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the Great Sand Dunes National Monument. The area is known for its serenity and environmental uniqueness.

House for a photographer in Pontypridd

House Photographer Pontypridd

Design : Hyde+Hyde Architects: The dramatic site within an isolated, disused quarry on the edge of the Brecon National Park demanded an architectural intervention of elegant simplicity.
With a modest budget an object building suspended within the basin was developed.

Vankely Xiamen North Station Complex Building

Vankely Xiamen

Dankely (Vanke alley) is the design for a public ‘street’ within Xiamen North Station Complex design by NL Architects, a fairly large residential compound in the city of Xiamen, near a major railway station.

The renowned Housing Corporation Vanke invited NL Architects to work with them on a new urban typology for combining shops with SOHO’s.

Business Incubator Training Centre in Normandy

Pont Audemer Building

Design: h2o architectes. The EPF Normandie and the commune of Pont-Audemer wanted to convert the industrial site of an ancient paper factory into offices/workshops for different companies

The ancient paper factory is a symbol of an important part of the local working class memory. The architectural conversion suggested by the agency had three principle axis of development.

Luzhou River Park Masterplan Competition

Daoliu Masterplan

John Thompson & Partners (JTP) and Gillespies LLP are delighted to announce that they have won the Daoliu River Park Design Competition in Luzhou, China. The competition was run by the Luzhou Longma Tan District Government.

Earls Court Redevelopment, London

Earls Court Redevelopment

Design: Pilbrow & Partners

Part of architect Sir Terry Farrell’s Masterplan.

Parts of the scheme designed by Pilbrow & Partners include the Broadway Terrace Building in what will become Earls Court Village and a prominent building entitled The Prow.
Detailed design proposals for further phases of the Earls Court Masterplan will be presented for consultation in late 2014.

Berkshire Pond House in Massachusetts

Berkshire Pond House

Design: David Jay Weiner, Architects. This building is a response to a client’s desire to build a new family weekend house on a densely wooded sloping site with stunning views overlooking a beautiful pond and the Berkshire Hills beyond.

The Podium in the former Olympic Park

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Design: Make

The new visitor centre for the south part of the park and ArcelorMittal Orbit visitor attraction, includes ticketing and retail space, and flexible events space with a roof terrace providing panoramic views over the park. The opening of the hub building over the weekend means the award-winning architectural practice is the only architect to date to have delivered an Olympic venue – the Copper Box Arena – as well as a legacy venue.

The Circle Zurich Airport in Switzerland

The Circle at Zurich Airport

Zurich airport building complex offering a vast utilization mix of corporate embassies, hotels, offices, medical clinics, schools and gastronomy covering more than 180.000 sqm. Holzer Kobler Architekturen with lead design architect Riken Yamamoto from Japan, are involved as design architects.