Eastcastle Street, with its generous ground floor showrooms and proximity to Oxford Street’s shops, was once the centre of London’s ragtrade. In the last few years the area has undergone a shift in identity with the departure of clothing manufacturers to the Far East, and the arrival of several East End art galleries.
Teleton Tampico wins World’s Best Health Building at World Architecture Festival Awards 2009. Socially responsible centre for disabled children combines colour, nature and therapeutic spaces
Cages for Macaws in the Palm Grove of Barcelona Zoo, Catalonia, designed by Battle & Roig Architects, Spain, has won the World’s Best Display Building award at the prestigious World Architecture Festival Awards (WAF Awards) 2009.
World Architecture Festival Awards Shortlist, WAF 2009 – information on architects & buildings – architectural Prix de Barcelona, Barcelona, prize, WAF Shortlist
John McAslan Architect awards at 2009 Architect of the Year Awards: World and Transport Architect of the Year won by John McAslan + Partners, London: UK architecture office news
Teleton Tampico, designed by Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos of Mexico, has won the World’s Best Health Building award at the prestigious World Architecture Festival Awards (WAF Awards) 2009.
Aarhus Godsbanen – architects 3XN win architectural competition to transform the former freight train halls in Aarhus, Denmark into a new and dynamic cultural center.
Masterplan for the Northern goods railway in Aarhus – Godsbanen: the young Copenhagen based office NORD Architects has won the competition for a new area in the center of Aarhus.
In 2007, Eldridge Smerin were commissioned to design a family house on an eleven acre site in Kent using off-site prefabrication to minimize conventional site labour reducing construction time and increasing finished quality.
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Samer Eid Architect defines the “TOYOTA Exhibition Pavilion” as a living organism, a hybrid space. The challenge was to combine Toyota and Lexus cars within a mono-space, merging both themes together in an innovative architectural expression.
Tasou Associates Architects, recent runners up in the Urban Splash Northshore housing competition, have completed two unique family dwellings tucked behind Islington’s fashionable Camden Passage
President Obama Appoints Thom Mayne to Serve on the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities
Developed as a luxury sustainable family home and currently for sale, Ladderstile House directly borders Richmond Park adjacent to Ladderstile Gate.
The John Edwards Lecture is a new annual dialogue, curated by The Architecture Foundation, which presents leading international architects in conversation with influential figures from other disciplines, from artists and filmmakers to writers and philosophers.
Thom Mayne architect, Morphosis Architects, USA architecture practice based in Los Angeles, California: awards, projects & LA buildings news
Post Rotterdam Consortium (made up of Delta Development Group and SNS Property Finance), together with Alderman Karakus from the Municipality of Rotterdam, presented the plans for the redevelopment of the former Post office on the Coolsingel 42.