Parkroyal On Pickering: Singapore Building

Parkroyal On Pickering

Design: WOHA. Designed as a hotel and office in a garden, the project at Upper Pickering Street is a study of how we can not only conserve our greenery in a built-up high-rise city centre but multiply it in a manner that is architecturally striking, integrated and sustainable.

Gangnam Style Seoul, Chungha Building

Gangnam Style

Design: MVRDV. Before a Korean pop-song became a global success on YouTube for the first time in history, MVRDV was commissioned to redefine a building on Gangnams chic Apgujung Road. The 1980s building was outdated in a street dominated by flagship stores. The transformation, which added an extra level, was completed in just 9 months.

James B. Hunt Jr. Library, NCSU Building

James B. Hunt Jr. Library

Design: Snøhetta with Clark Nexsen: this new building serves both as NC State’s second main library and the intellectual and social heart of the university’s Centennial Campus. The Hunt Library also houses the Institute for Emerging Issues, a think tank led by former North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt, academic offices, visualization and digital media labs and an auditorium.

INGLASS 2014 Warsaw Conference

Patrik Schumacher architect London

INGLASS 2014 Architecture Conference – INGLASS Warsaw 2014, with Patrik Schumacher, ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

Patrik Schumacher is partner at Zaha Hadid Architects. He joined in 1988 and has since been the co-author of many key projects. Together with Zaha Hadid he built up Zaha Hadid Architects to become a 400 strong global architecture brand.

HOK architecture office news archive

Silverstone Pitlane & Paddock complex design

HOK Architecture Office news archive for 2009 to 2013 – one of the world’s leading architects, strengthens its marketing function in London with the appointment of Robyn Gilmour as Senior Vice President, Marketing Principal.

House F Osaka: Contemporary Residence

House F

Design: Kenji Architectural Studio. The house is designed for a couple, and is a wooden three stories house that is built at urban narrow site. Around the site is the mixed-use area where small houses, small factories, and small office buildings coexist together without any harmony.

Eichler Palo Alto House, North California Residence

Eichler Palo Alto House

How do you expand an L-shaped Eichler with the challenge of extending a long dark entry? Klopf Architecture’s solution, to design a light filled atrium in the hallway to open up the bedroom expansion with green plants, sky lights and a glass wall. Not to mention the thoughtfulness of a blind door with wood siding similar to the rest of the home.

BDP architects office, building designs

Boatyard Hotel Suzhou

BDP architects office news – The first raft of projects in China is now starting to complete with two civic projects in Suzhou ; updates for Appleton Academy Bradford, Yorkshire, northern England, UK

National Center for Contemporary Arts, Russia: NCCA

National Center for Contemporary Arts

The winner of the International Competition for the architectural concept for the new building for National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) at Khodynskoe Pole in Moscow is Heneghan Peng Architects from Ireland.

The other two finalists were Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos from Spain and Russian architectural studio Mel.

Louis Vuitton Foundation Building Paris

Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris building

The building designed by Frank Gehry brings together the full range of the architect’s methods, aesthetic codes and modes of expression, while representing a new stage in his work.

Ziraat Bank Istanbul Headquarters

Ziraat Bank Istanbul Headquarters

Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF). Design for a new headquarters for the country’s largest and oldest financial institution, Ziraat Bank, in a modern, suburban district of Istanbul. The two tower, over 400,000m² Ziraat Bank headquarters will be the centre‐piece of the new Istanbul International Financial Centre (IIFF).

Europan Norway – Ås, Oslo

Europan Norway

Architects Laura Alvarez and Jarrik Ouburg win second prize at Europan Norway. Ås is a municipality part of the Oslo region whose population will double in the next 25 years. Currently a couple of buildings are located on the site: the house of Norwegian artist Odd Tandberg, the villa Åsheim House and an office building.

Huijin International Center, China – Xiamen Building

Huijin International Center

Design: Leo A Daly

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China and China Construction Industry Association have presented a Luban Prize, the country’s premier award for design and construction, to the Huijin International Center (HIC), a project designed by international architecture/engineering firm LEO A DALY.