The construction of the new Ben Wyvis primary school in Scotland has been undertaken by Barr Construction on behalf of the Highland Council with the objective of meeting the highest standards of teaching accommodation, site facilities and sustainability.
The scheme, on a site in the centre of the historic city, includes the transformation of the redundant Grade II listed Odeon cinema which dates from 1936.
Richard Meier & Partners announce the first completed project in Shenzhen, China. Sited on a prominent island in the middle of the OCT harbor lake, the new OCT Shenzhen Clubhouse.
The construction consists of a cubic volume that is placed in the plot in order to release surface in the south zone where the swimming pool is located.
In 2006, Atelier Kempe Thill is commissioned to design Block 10 in the Moerwijk neighborhood of The Hague with eighty-eight apartments and twenty-seven terraced houses as the result of a negotiation procedure by Vestia, the largest building corporation in the Netherlands.
The Ping Shan Tin Shui Wai Leisure and Cultural Building in Hong Kong project is a medium-rise development having 10 main levels including one basement. It accommodates two main blocks which are a public library and an indoor recreation centre.
St. Petersburg officials have reportedly granted approval to Gazprom’s long-delayed Lakhta Centre, a 500 m (1,640 ft) building, according to AFP.
Belfast architects McAdam Design with Studio Daniel Libeskind have been appointed to design a £18 million conflict resolution centre on the site of Northern Ireland’s infamous Maze Prison.
By using natural materials as wood and stone, utilizing top lights as well as placing small green-courtyards inside the house, the architect wants to bring out elegant and peaceful spaces to the client.
Keelung has a fairly unique climate which combines the extreme humidity and heat of the tropics with the high winds and rain of the typhoon corridor which follows of the coast of the Asian continent.
UCD Student Centre is the new epicentre of sporting, social and academic life in UCD. The project occupies a unique position in the history of the Belfield campus, as both the largest single project since the original masterplan, and the first to be funded entirely by its students
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“The US Pavilion was a tremendous success. It won a Special Mention Award – a first award for any US Architectural pavilion since the Architectural Biennale was first launched. According to the Biennale office”.
Award-winning architects BuckleyGrayYeoman has received planning consent from the London Borough of Camden for a major commercial refurbishment in the heart of London’s Midtown Business Investment District.