South Dublin County Council undertook to refurbish and extend the library in Ballyroan in 2006. Part of the brief involved refurbishing the community centre and provision of additional pastoral facilities; however it became evident early on that a separate building was required for this element.
Chengdu Tianfu District Building, Chinese Great City, AS+GG Design News Chengdu Tianfu District Great City Building Development China – design by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture 24 Oct 2012 Great City Chengdu AS+GG Designs Master Plan for Great City, a Sustainable Satellite City in China Design: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture ADRIAN SMITH … Read more
Office Jarrik Ouburg designed the scenography of a group exhibition bringing together the works of the Dutch painter Kees Verwey (1900-1995) and five Rijksakademie alumni at museum De Hallen in Haarlem, The Netherlands.
Kongsberg City Council announced that Mecanoo, together with Oslo based Code Arkitektur and Buro Happold, have won the design competition for a Knowledge and Cultural Square in the centre of Kongsberg, a former mining town about 75 kilometers southwest of Oslo.
Arquitectos Anónimos, Porto, Portuguese architects studio – buildings photos, designs – Portugal architecture practice news and project images
Formally and conceptually, we decided that our intervention here should address surface rather than volume; it should be horizontal rather than vertical. As opposed to the mountain of the Völkerschlachtdenkmal (Battle of the Nations monument), we were the sea that steadily wears down the hard rock and turns it into sand.
Tianjin Tuanbo Tennis Center, sports building China – design by Kalarch Design Group (KDG) – Chinese sports venue, architecture info & images
The aim of the prize is to enhance the importance of architecture in social discourse, to strengthen the role of architects in public life and to reinforce the network of architects, industry, clients and politics.
The first book published by Nili Portugali – ‘The Act of Creation and the Spirit of a Place / A Holistic-Phenomenological Approach to Architecture’ / Axel Menges / – was selected by The RIBA International Book Award among the 23 books of the year 2007.
The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), the Number One Bank in the UAE, has appointed Gensler, the leading global architecture and design firm, to design the new NBAD Global Head Office in the heart of the new Abu Dhabi Central Business District on Al Maryah Island.
Each year around two millions of people set out on their pilgrimage through the Mexican county of Jalisco, along the 117 kilometres of the Ruta del Peregrino. The route of their pilgrimage leads them from the city of Ameca.
The Badshahpur IT Park is a campus of ten buildings, set across a sinuous series of adjacent plots of varied ownership. The challenge was to create a common identity across the site, a hierarchy of amenity spaces
The Felicja Blumenthal Music Center and Library”, a magnificent building designed by architect Nili Portugali and built in 1996 on Bialik Square.
The historical concept of architecture as described by Vitruvius in De architectura identifies ‘durability’ as one of the three principles for good buildings.