P 17 Tower Dubai – UAE Skyscraper Design
Leading international architecture and engineering firm, Atkins is designing a super slim tower which gives the illusion of constantly changing its appearance with the movement of people and the sun.
Sjakket Youth House Copenhagen Community
Sjakket Youth House. A base camp for immigrant youth is to occupy a former factory building. The exterior twin peak silhouette and gables are subject to rules of preservation.
Gulf States Building Awards Winner, Middle East
These successes come hot on the heels of the Atkins designed Bahrain World Trade Center taking CTBUH’s ‘Best Tall Building’ award for Middle East and Africa plus ‘Tower project of the year’ at the Middle East Construction Week awards.
Blackheath Road, Greenwich Housing
Blackheath Road London: Greenwich housing, South London by Fraser Brown MacKenna: St James Urban Living, OneSE8 apartments, Greenwich development
Guantanamo Bay Detention Center proposal, Cuba
In reaction to US President-elect Barack Obama’s Sunday’s declaration on CBS ’60 minutes’ on 16.11.2008 (his first sit-down interview since winning the November 4 presidential election) where he has confirmed his intention to close Guantanamo’s Detention Center.
Am Kupfergraben 10 Berlin: David Chipperfield
David Chipperfield Architects’ gallery building Am Kupfergraben 10 in Berlin has received the first prize in the ‘office and commercial buildings’ category of the Fritz Höger Prize 2008.
Lewisham Apartments: South London Flats
Lewisham Apartments design by Duggan Morris Architects – Lewisham Council has granted planning permission for a contemporary building by Duggan Morris Architects for Angelana Investments
Suffolk Housing, Clay Fields Affordable Homes
Clay Fields Suffolk housing design by Riches Hawley Mikhail Architects – 26 affordable homes for local people, new houses, Elmswell building, England
Norfolk Academy: Norwich School Building
Sheppard Robson has won a competition to design the new 9,000m² Open Academy in Norwich – the first in Norfolk. The bidding team, led by Kier Education, won the bid to transform the existing 1960’s, Heartsease High School through the Academies Framework.
John Deere Madrid, Spain Showroom
Building surface of 5.500 square meters, on the plot of a gross area of 60.000 m for accommodating the companies tractors and machinery exhibition zone and being used as training and marketing centre for all Spanish dealers.
Guangzhou Velodrome, Extreme Sport Center
The complex consists of a 15.200 sqm Velodrome and Rollerskating arena, an 11.500 sqm extreme sport Center, a 6.600 sqm Office building for the Game management of the Asian Games. Furthermore are there facilities planned for BMX, rock climbing and mountainbiking and a volunteer and academic exchange center.
Mercedes Museum Stuttgart: UNStudio
The Mercedes-Benz Museum building design by UNStudio Architects – awarded a Hugo-Häring Prize in the category Guter Bauten, for the Stuttgart region.
Contour House, Bellarine Peninsula Home
Set atop a magnificent site on the Bellarine Peninsula, Contour house anchors itself into the landscape with a 5.5 meter high, 55m long folding concrete wall. This gesture is both protective and revealing, simultaneously creating an internal courtyard.
St. Neots Creative Exchange building: Priory Park
Priory Park in St. Neots, Cambridgeshire has become home to a new publicly-funded creative workspace building designed by 5th Studio architects. The project will be the home of Creative Exchange, a new set of shared workspaces aimed at nurturing the West Cambridgeshire’s creative workers and innovators.
Bord Gais Networks, Finglas Building, Dublin
Oliver Chapman Architects were successful in being invited to the second stage of an international competition for the new headquarters’ building for the Irish gas board.
Ludo Roma – Recreation Centre Rome, studioUap
Project for the renovation of the Public Park and the new Children’s Centre next to the Corviale Housing in the outskirts of Rome, designed by LAND Srl and StudioUAP.
Falvey House, Australia: Warburton Home
Warburton property design by BKK Architects, Melbourne: on an elevated site set amongst native bushland with rolling hills to the north, The Wall withholds the view upon approach, presenting a mute block wall embedded into the site.