Spaceport America, the world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport in southern New Mexico. The design for Spaceport America’s terminal hangar facility was created by a team of American and British architects.
Living in the landscape, Jane Burnside designs houses, not from the abstract position of the urban architect enjoying the opportunity to embrace the landscape, but from a position embedded within the landscape and all its contrasting qualities.
The Viking Long House – so named for its shape and internal layout – is set within an old apple orchard in a rural location in Ireland. A second lozenge-shaped wall cuts through the house sheltering an entrance courtyard to the North terminating in a sculptural outdoor fireplace to the South.
A journey over water: Constructed entirely on one level for lifetime access, the house and carport are a single composition of eight pavilions connected across the burn by the broad footbridge overlooking the dam, waterfall and burn – sometimes a raging torrent, others a calm trickle.
AA School Exhibition – ‘Double or Nothing’ presents the architectural and spatial projects of Brussels-based architectural practice 51N4E
York Street Social Housing, Dublin residential architecture in Ireland design by Seán Harrington Architects: 66 apartments, a community centre and a retail unit in York Street in Dublin city centre, near St. Stephens Green.
The house shown here is on the southern facing slope of the hills facing into the Morna Valley in the centre of the island.
The design process related to the redevelopment of Thomond Park extends back to 2003 with a request to examine significantly increasing the existing 11,091 capacity stadium.
The site is long, sloping, falling towards cliffs and the sea. Entering the site the viewer’s eye is drawn to the horizon, the viewer is pulled towards the abstracted line.
Abbeyleix Library Laois building design by DeBlacam & Meagher in Ireland. It was the Architect’s ambition to re-pave the square, and this was achieved by re-planning the car parking and planting Italian Cypress to compliment the 1890’s building.
The project is located in Sligo, perched above Glencar Lake to the south and surrounded by the limestone cliffs and tabletops of Benbulbin Mountain to the north. The existing limestone cottage had a defensive relationship to this dramatic landscape.
Tallaght Zip, Ireland, for South Dublin County Council – design by Seán Harrington Architects in Ireland: Irish public realm architecture development news
The new Leixlip Garda Station replaces a small existing station in the village. The site is on the western side of the village, on higher ground above the Liffey and Rye valleys, and fronts onto the old road to the west, now bypassed by the M4.
This architecture studio is based in Europe surprisingly enough (almost all New Zealand design-led houses are from NZ architectural studios), located in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland and Belfast, N. Ireland.
Adri Duivesteijn, city councillor of Almere, Amsterdam Housing Association Stadgenoot and MVRDV met the group of architects commissioned to design each two buildings within the MVRDV masterplan for the Olympiakwartier in new town Almere, Netherlands.
A kindergarten integrated into the landscape like a chameleon (including a crèche) for 4 groups. Genius Loci – the first impression of this place in the midst of green meadows and fields leads to the concept of the built playground.
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry building design by Pringle Richards Sharratt in central England: Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award Finalist 2009 – Midlands architecture news, UK