DSituated on a cliffside overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, Villa Sow in Dakar, Senegal was completed in 2011, with SAOTA – Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects, the Architects and ANTONI ASSOCIATES doing the Interior Decor. The house was designed for a Senegalese businessman and his family.
Design: Dorrington Architects & Associates. A contemporary home incorporates the charming but time-worn house, and capitalises on the stunning views on offer. The original house on this waterfront site was a double-skin brick bungalow with warren-like rooms and little connection with the foreshore.
HOK’s London based Commercial team today celebrated completion of 29-37 Davies Street, a mixed-use development located in the heart of London’s Mayfair. The landmark building, comprises of 28,856 sq ft of highly specified office space along with an impressive 211ft (64m) frontage that stretches along one of Mayfair’s most desirable streets, opposite the world famous Claridge’s Hotel.
Design: MU Architecture. “La Grange”, the new residence of the “Terrasses Cap-à-l’Aigle” development, is situated in the magnificent Charlevoix region. Its architecture highlights the rugged charm of the site while framing the breathtaking views of the St. Lawrence River. Located atop a ridge and surrounded by the neighbouring forest, this large house dominates the site with its two storey height.
Design: Studio Ricciardi Architetti. The main objectives of the project were to create an open, contemporary living space, remove the existing corridor and set up two bedrooms, each with private bathroom, a laundry room, a little studio/office and a small guest bedroom, everything in 124 m2 (1334 ft2).
NORD Architecture granted planning permission for new Maggie’s Centre in the grounds of Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert. This will be the 9th Maggie’s Centre in Scotland with Maggie’s Aberdeen having opened in September last year and the new purpose built Centre in Lanarkshire due to open later this year.
Design: Denys Lasdun, Architect. The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) celebrates the 50th anniversary of its iconic headquarters in Regent’s Park, designed by Sir Denys Lasdun, coinciding with the centenary of Lasdun’s birth. To celebrate and share this fascinating architectural masterpiece with as many people as possible, the RCP is organising a programme of events and activities across the year.
Housing Tower for Montpellier, ‘L’Arbre Blanc’ – ‘White Tree’ – exclusive video of three architecture agency’s interview about the architectural contest for a housing Tower in Montpellier-France. Sou Fujimoto Architects ; Nicolas Laisné Associés ; Manal Rachdi Oxo architects.
Design: be baumschlager eberle. A key project in the heart of the Belgian city of Roeselare is the renewal of the inner-city nucleus formed by Noordstraat, Ooststraat and Henri Horriestraat
This Danish property development design by architects Arkitema takes the form of a chain, the turns of which weave the houses and nature together to form a whole. The chain is unbroken, but in its movements it divides the development into smaller enclaves
Design: gmp Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner. The design by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners, with JB Ferrari, for a new children’s hospital at the Lausanne University Hospital has won first prize in an international competition. The hospital is to provide 85 beds and an accident and emergency unit for children.
Design: Architecture For London. This project is a renovation of a small (38sqm) flat within a listed building in Islington, North London. The flat was originally a studio with a bed-sitting room and separate kitchen. The kitchen was relocated to create an open plan kitchen-diner, allowing the flat to have a separate bedroom. The works therefore enabled the fat to become a more usable 1-bed property.
LEAF Awards, 2014, Munich, Germany – winners + shortlist from 2013: winning architects + buildings – event, designs, venue, dinner, forum news
The British Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. The British Council will present the exhibition A Clockwork Jerusalem in the British Pavilion, responding to the theme ‘Absorbing Modernity: 1914-2014’ set for the national pavilions by director Rem Koolhaas.