Joel Solkoff Column: Renzo Piano owns New York

Morgan Library and Museum.

On disability issues relevant to architects. ‘Renzo Piano Owns New York’. When Renzo Piano’s fourth architectural project in New York City is completed, he will have surrounded the Island of Manhattan dominating neighborhoods on the North, South, West and East sides. The project on the north is Columbia University’s Manhattanville expansion. For an alumnus of Columbia College Class of 1969, the Piano project is literally a mind blower.

Vasileostrovskiy District Building – St Petersburg

Vasileostrovskiy District, St. Petersburg

Vasileostrovskiy District Building, St Petersburg Residential Building, Russia
Design: Architectural bureau A.Len

Residential complex “Svetliy Mir” – “Ya Romantic” in Saint Petersburg

The linear scheme of the buildings arrangement allowed to provide protection against wind from the Gulf of Finland. There are schools, kindergartens, sports and playgrounds in the yards.

Residential Complex Barochnaya Street Building

Residential complex on Barochnaya Street in Saint Petersburg

Barochnaya Street Residential Complex, St Petersburg Residential Building, Russia. Design: Architectural bureau A.Len Bread-baking plant photos added. The territory of the residential complex is situated in the district where a monument of constructivist architecture – the bread-baking plant is located.

Beatrice Tate Special Needs School East London

Beatrice Tate Special Needs School

Design: Avanti Architects. The £8m Beatrice Tate School for pupils with severe/profound and multiple learning difficulties has now officially opened near Mile End. The building provides and inclusive and stimulating new learning environment for students and staff alike, replacing facilities in an outdated and cramped site near Bethnal Green.

Neptune Wharf Development, Wyke Road London

Neptune Wharf development

Neptune Wharf, London
Design: Stock Woolstencroft

Planning permission has been received for Neptune Wharf, a major canal side development adjacent to London’s Olympic Park. Located within Fish Island, this former industrial site will be regenerated to provide 522 homes and over 9,000sqm of non-residential space, including a new primary school and a range of retail and workspace units.

Radical Innovation Competition 2013: Hotel Design

Radical Innovation

8th Annual Radical Innovation Competition In The Search For The Next Big Idea for Hotels: call for entries that propose feasible ideas to revolutionize the hospitality guest experience in the near term.

Sports and Administration Centre Skanderborg

Sports and Administration Centre in Skanderborg

schmidt hammer lassen architects has, in collaboration with contractor KPC A/S and engineering company Bascon A/S, won the competition to design the new Sports and Administration Centre in Skanderborg, Denmark

Miguel Hidalgo Headquarters in Mexico City

Miguel Hidalgo in Mexico City

Miguel Hidalgo Headquarters in Mexico City design by Zyman & Zyman, Arquitectos. A top-performing information technology company needed a new, larger and functional new headquarters and commissioned us to produce a design that reflected the company’s reputation for excellence.

Taekwondo-Won, Jeollabuk-do, Korea

Taekwondo-Won

Taekwondo-Won Building, Republic of Korea, design by Samoo Architects & Engineers. The Taekwondo-Won is established to become a global hub for the education, training, and promotion of Taekwondo, a Korean martial art that combines combat techniques with sports. With over 45million practitioners all around the world, the need for a central hub at the originating country was imminent.

Piedmont Residence in North Carolina

Piedmont Residence

Piedmont Residence, a house in Western North Carolina, USA – by Carlton Architecture + DesignBuild. Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the residence lies along the southern edge of a hillside overlooking a mountain lake and expansive views beyond. The design of the home sought to sensitively root and connect it to its place, enhancing the owners’ ability to experience all aspects of the land and the home together.

AR+D Awards 2013: Emerging Architecture Prize

bunker 599

AR+D Awards for Emerging Architecture 2013 Joint winners – Hernan Diaz Alonso, Pitch Black ; RAAAF & Atelier de Lyon, Bunker 599 ; SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov, Museum for Architectural Drawing ; Studio Weave, Lullaby Factory.

IN / OUT Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris

IN/OUT in Boulogne Billancourt

IN / OUT Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France, design by Agence Jouin Manku: the Client decided to restructure the original building, aiming for it to become a benchmark in the tertiary sector, focusing on innovation as well as on wellbeing at work. It is this ambitious decision that gave birth to the major IN/OUT project.