Preston Housing Competition: Design Contest

RCKarchitects selected as the winner of the Gateway goes for Guild Social Housing competition. They will work with Community Gateways, Preston’s largest housing association to deliver a social housing development in Preston city for occupation in 2012, to coincide with and celebrate Preston Guild 2012.

Musical Studies Centre Santiago de Compostela

Musical Studies Centre Santiago de Compostela

The project of the Musical Studies Centre in Santiago de Compostela is located in the Vista Alegre plot of land, one of the most relevant green areas in the surroundings of the old quarter of Santiago.

Europan 10 Norway: Vardø Building

Europan 10 Norway - Vardø building

The theme of the competition was “inventing urbanity: regeneration, revitalization, colonisation” and entrants were asked to produce a plan for sustainable development.

Auchoish Steadings Scotland: Argyll House

Auchoish Steadings, Scotland - Argyll House

Auchoish is a remotely situated farm steading surrounded by rough pasture just below the tree-line to the north-east of Lochgilphead. Traditional stone outbuildings, broadly C-shaped in plan, required refurbishment and conversion as further living accommodation.

Chep Lap Kok Airport Hong Kong: Norman Foster

Chep Lap Kok Airport Hong Kong

Hong Kong Airport has been No.1 in the world since 1996 in terms of international air cargo throughput. Reports suggest it cost $20bn. Two islands were flattened to form roughly a quarter of the new island.