Chengdu IFS: International Finance Square

Chengdu IFS

Design: Benoy

Benoy is proud to announce the opening of the latest real estate flagship to grace western China, Chengdu International Finance Square (Chengdu IFS).
Appointed as the Masterplanner, Architect, Interior and Graphic Designer for Chengdu IFS, Benoy was part of the January grand opening ceremony to showcase the city’s new landmark complex. The major event was overseen by the world’s largest giant panda installation, “I Am Here”, by artist Lawrence Argent – highlighting the significance of the development.

Henderson-Hopkins School, East Baltimore

Henderson-Hopkins School

Design: ROGERS PARTNERS Architects+Urban Designers. East Baltimore’s Henderson-Hopkins School, operated by Johns Hopkins University’s School of Education, and the Harry and Jeannette Weinberg Early Childhood Center in East Baltimore, are now open

Arabesque Cuneo Building, Piedmont

Arabesque Cuneo Building

Design: atelier qbe3, Architects. Recovery and renovation today are the keywords that every architect must consider essential for their “craft”.
Future of our cities, especially in this historical period, must take into account the correct use of resources available, stopping the uncontrolled expansion of urban areas and recovery those portions of tissue that are often ignored, but that are full of history, memories and can still be part of the language and life of every day.

Surface Design Awards 2014 London

Mayfair House

The winners of the Surface Design Awards: champion the best in progressive design and innovative surfaces and are the only international awards to focus exclusively on surface design. Twelve winners in six categories were announced

Architecture Foundation London: AF Events

Biomimetic Office Building

The Architecture Foundation presents ‘Exploration Architecture: Designing with Nature’, the first-ever solo show of Exploration, a thought-leading architecture and design practice working in the field of biomimicry

Olgiata Shopping Plaza Rome Retail Building

Rome Shopping Building 1

Design: LAD (Laboratorio di Architettura e Design). In addressing one of the issues more representative of society, in the present, the consumption of and free time that has elapsed between the shop windows become points of election for the exchange and the sociability.

Shell Centre Visitor Pavilion Canary Wharf

Shell Centre 2

Shell Centre developers seek permission for Marks Barfield Designed Visitor Pavilion. Canary Wharf Group and Qatari Diar, the joint venture developers of the Shell Centre site on London’s South Bank, have submitted a planning application for a temporary visitor pavilion to support the redevelopment of the area.

Landesgartenschau: German Zaha Hadid Building

Landesgartenschau 6

Design: Zaha Hadid Architects

The project was designed to serve as an event and exhibition space for the garden festival in Weil am Rhein 1999. The suggested structure does not sit in the landscape as an isolated object, but emerges from the fluid geometry of the surrounding network of paths.

Eichgraben Family House, Austria Residence

Eichgraben Family House Exterior 3

After the birth of their first daughter, the young family were taken by the idea of a single-family house in the countryside, design by Franz Architekten. In the Wienerwald they found a little house in need of rehabilitation with a large garden

Belas House Lisbon, Portugal Property

Belas House

Architects : Estúdio Urbano Arquitectos. The house is located inside the Belas Clube de Campo, a private condominium, where topography allowed to maximize exterior areas and offer privacy to the users. The project extends throughout three floors, with the third floor is entirely occupied by the master bedroom.

FKI Tower: Seoul Skyscraper Building

FKI Tower Seoul 2

Design: ESD + Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. Federation of Korean Industries Tower Opens In Seoul. The 50-story, 240 meter tall tower is the first in South Korea to use a pressurized underfloor air distribution system, includes integrated photovoltaic panels on its façade

Tower of London International Ideas Competition

Tower of London International Ideas Competition 1

The Wilmotte Foundation’s international PrixW competition is calling for entries from architectural students and recent graduates. For the first time since the Competition began, the prestigious PrixW will focus on a UK site. The competition invites entrants to propose a new cultural and events centre at the Tower of London, London’s most visited tourist attraction. Prix W hopes that a site with such a long and illustrious history will fire the imagination of young architects across the world.

New Town House Building, Kingston University

kingston-university-town-house

Architects: Grafton Architects. Images of Grafton Architects’ winning design proposals for the New Town House Building are to go on display from tomorrow at Kingston University’s Penrhyn Road Campus. The practice was selected from a five strong shortlist that also included (in alphabetical order) multi-disciplinary design teams led by: Bennetts Associates; Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios; Haworth Tompkins and O’Donnell & Tuomey.