International Backwoods Cabin Competition

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International Backwoods Cabin Competition

Canadian cabin design competition draws over 50 submissions from around the world. Young winner Nathan Fisher of Toronto awarded $1,000 and will see his design built on 580 acre sustainably managed forest by competition host; Community Forests International.

Community Forests International’s (CFI) panel of judges faced a larger than anticipated responsibility last week when over 50 entries from around the world poured into the organization’s sustainable cabin design contest.

Bezos Center for Innovation opens in Seattle

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Bezos CFI 1

Design: Olson Kundig Architects. The Bezos Center for Innovation is now open at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI). Generously supported by Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos, the Bezos Center for Innovation is a groundbreaking exhibition dedicated to the theme of innovation, featuring multimedia, interactive and hands-on experiences as well as artifacts, images and oral histories that explore Seattle’s creative history and ignite the innovator within.

Emerson College Hollywood, Los Angeles

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Emerson College Hollywood

Design: Morphosis, architects. This new Los Angeles facility is located in the heart of Hollywood at 5960 West Sunset Boulevard, and designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Thom Mayne, the facility will house around 220 students, as well as residence hall staff and several visiting faculty in more than 100,000 sqft of classroom facilities, production and performance studios.

100 Cheapside London Office Building

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Design: Skanska. A new commercial building in the City of London moved a step closer to completion today with the topping out of 100 Cheapside. The 134,548sqft (12,500sqm) building is the latest addition to Skanska’s portfolio of commercial projects in the City. Due to complete in September, it will offer office accommodation over nine floors, plus retail facilities on the ground floor and basement storage.

Metropolitan Cathedral Campus Liverpool

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Metropolitan Cathedral Campus Liverpool 1

Ryder Architecture completes work on Liverpool Science Park’s Metropolitan Cathedral campus. Construction of the four storey £7m new wing of Innovation Centre 1 (ic1) started in March 2013 and has completed ahead of its 12 month schedule in February.

Fairfax Avenue Apartment, Bellevue Hills, Sydney

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Fairfax Avenue Apartment 5

Rolf Ockert Design were approached by a bachelor who had just bought a penthouse apartment in an upmarket suburb of Sydney’s East. The apartment occupied the entire top floor of a 1940’s building and had great views over Sydney harbour.

River Champagne Bar Competition

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River Champagne Bar Competition 2

The aim of this International Competition is to design a Champagne Bar along the Paris river “Seine” and by the romantic “Pont des Arts”. Paris is the capital and most populous city of France. It is situated on the River Seine, in the north of the country. Within its administrative limits (the 20 arrondissements), the city had 2,234,105 inhabitants in 2009.

YArch Workshop – Cyprus Architecture Event

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YAarch Workshop 2014

Supported by: Cyprus Architects Association

We are contacting you regarding our architectural workshop called YArch-Workshop in order to give you further information on the competition we proclaimed and on YArch Workshop in general. YArch Wroskhop offers two main services. First service is divided in our architectural competition followed by our workshop and the second service is our architectural blog.

Familistère in Guise, France Building

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Design: h2o architectes. The Familistère is a vast housing complex founded by Jean-Baptiste André Godin in 1859 in relation with the stove manufacturing business. Until 1968, this Social Palace was the theatre of a unique social experimentation in the industrial world

Rubinsztein House, South Coogee residence

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NSW Waterfront Property 5

Design: Rolf Ockert Design: The client had just purchased the site, a small but stunningly located oceanfront property with panoramic views of the Pacific, when they were introduced to me.

Melbourne Park Western Precinct Arena

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Melbourne Park

Procurement begins for second stage of Melbourne Park redevelopment. Work to begin on the $338m second stage of the Melbourne Park redevelopment. Expressions of Interest called to design the new Administration and Media building.

Eyebeam Brooklyn, Lafayette Avenue Building

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Eyebeam Brooklyn

Design: WORK Architecture Company. Cultural facility as part of mixed-use development designed by Dattner Architects / Bernheimer Architecture. Eyebeam is pleased to announce the selection of WORK Architecture Company (WORKac) as the architectural firm to design Eyebeam’s future facility in Brooklyn, located at the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Ashland Place.

Punta Ixtapa Resort Development, Mexico

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Punta Ixtapa 8

Design: JSª. The complex has 102 apartments, of about 2,700-2,960 sq ft (duplex and simplex), in four towers, with different distribution layouts with a total area of 305,360 sq ft. Inside the complex there are two swim clubs with three pools each, one pool for free swim, one for training, and one for kids.

Barclays Center Brooklyn, Atlantic Yards New York

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Barclays Center, Brooklyn

Design: SHoP Architects. Award nomination for DMD Weathering Steel patina on the exterior of the Barclays Center, New York, New York, NY. The Barclay’s Center Arena was constructed with a latticework composed of 12,000 pre-weathered steel panels. Taking a cue from the Japanese Wabi-Sabi aesthetic, the tactility of the metal is designed to gracefully age without comprising the integrity of the cladding.