MUCEM Museum Marseille, France building

MUCEM Marseille

Design: Rudy Ricciotti. The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations is the flagship project of Marseille’s on-going architectural and cultural renaissance. Located on Marseille’s seafront the inner structure has been covered with a delicate ornamental skin of filigreed concrete.

Nanjing Museum of Art & Architecture: Steven Holl

Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing

Design: Steven Holl Architects with Li Hu. The 30,000 sqft Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing is sited at the gateway to the Chinese International Practical Exhibition of Architecture, which brings together the work of 24 designers

Barcelona Design Museum: Spain building

Barcelona Design Museum

Design: MBM Arquitectes
Intriguing Catalan architecture – a confident, expressive building by David Mackay / MBM. The ‘Design Hub’ is located on a sloping site beside Jean Nouvelle’s Agbar tower, and very close to the elevated roundabout of a busy motorway. The site is part of a future park which meant that only a small building footprint would be allowed at ground level with the rest of the building underground.

Queen Alia International Airport Amman, Jordan

Queen Alia International Airport

Foster + Partners architects have produced a majestic, elegant building for Jordan. The have taken the repetitive pattern and top-lit concept of their earlier Stansted Airport building and improved it with a wonderful treatment of concrete. The building is a heavyweight, concrete flowing but controlled – articulated by well-placed joints. It seems like a return to the serious concrete structures of the past.

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 The 1980s building was outdated in a street dominated by flagship stores.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.