Yad Le’Banim buildings are multi-disciplinary cultural centers that offer cultural, social, and artistic activities for the local community in memory of fallen soldiers of Israel Defense Forces and Security Forces.
Next to the mediathèque, three existing buildings – the church, the Hotel de Balay and the wall of the prison – formed an impressive and severe urban setting made up of simple lines, great mineral surfaces and imposing masses.
Turnaccommodatie Nieuw Welgelegen (TNW) is a sports hall dedicated to Gymnastics. It will not be used for any other sports. Four clubs combine efforts in this new facility.
Everyday life occurs on a platform overlooking the sea. Beneath this the rock is carved out to form a grotto. Above the platform is a protective cocoon for sleeping.
An old cabaret theatre from the roaring ’20s has been uncovered in the heart of Berlin. The semi-derelict music hall theatre, built in 1905 on Gartenstraße in Berlin Mitte, has been buried in 30 tonnes of rubble since 1934 when it closed, perhaps as part of a crackdown on the cabaret scene by the Nazi regime.
Villa Laar is a new house placed on the footprint of the old barn. The design is based upon the rotation of the sun. It opens in the morning towards the east where the light enters the house through the entree patio.
Shared Dreams is a proposal for the new Helsinki Library, sited at a strategic point within the city, the cultural cluster in the Töölönlahti area, with the Helsinki Music Centre, the Aalto congress centre, and the Kiasma contemporary art museum.
The Wanderlust is open in the heart of the Cité de la Mode et du Design, conceived by architects Jakob+Macfarlane.
Aylesbury Estate, London Regeneration, Architecture, Southwark Housing Design Aylesbury Estate, London Residential Estate Regeneration Project, Southwark – design by Pollard Thomas Edwards architects 21 Nov 2012 Aylesbury Estate Walworth, London Design: Pollard Thomas Edwards architects (PTEa) Green Light for next phase of Aylesbury Estate regeneration Pollard Thomas Edwards architects (PTEa) has won consent for the … Read more
Between Cathedrals seeks to create an intervention worthy of the most significant location in the history of Cadiz, the oldest city of the West: the empty space facing the sea located between the Old and New Cathedrals.
Howell Killick Partridge & Amis Architects, UK – English Architecture incl Senior Combination Room, Downing College, Cambridge – HKPA Architects England
The project is a part of a business hotel (Not classified in Star category), in a tier 3 city in the country, which has been redesigned by the firm as repositioning exercise.
The RIBA is pleased to announce that Rem Koolhaas is to receive the 2012 Jencks Award. The Jencks Award is given annually to an individual (or practice) that has recently made a major contribution internationally to both the theory and practice of architecture.
Moliner House – To build a house for a poet. To make a house for dreaming, living and dying. A house in which to read, to write and to think.