Sunand Prasad, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) at a special ceremony in the historic St Thomas’s Church in Edinburgh. The Fellowship was presented by Ramesh Chander, Consul General of India.
Light well House, contemporary Japanese home desigj by Keiichi Hayashi Architects. The site of the house is located on the end of a narrow lane, and is surrounded by retaining walls of adjacent sites which are raised on north and east side.
The large Science Library forms a major part of the building and it houses the departmental libraries of the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, which were formerly independent, as well as the Pihlajamäki branch of the Helsinki City Library.
The two office buildings are conceived around a suite of cutting edge green building initiatives. Passive initiatives set up the framework to save energy and active initiatives help adapt the building to diurnal and seasonable variation.
Flood Design Competition, Shortlist, Building, RIBA, Architects, Designer, Info Norwich Union Flood Design Competition Housing Design competition winners, England: Images 19 Dec 2008 Flood Design Competition Result UK Flood Design Competition Winners Floating homes, sunken pontoons and timber drawbridges were just some of the innovations presented by architects across the world in a bid to … Read more
The L.A. in Wien/Wien in L.A exhibition begins with a digital presentation of photographs and drawings, entitled Schindler/Neutra: Vienna/Los Angeles 2.0, offering a brief overview tracing the architectural link between the cities when Vienna-born architects R.M. Schindler and Richard Neutra first settled in Los Angeles.
On Ankara-Eskigehir road, Dogan Medya Center is planned to be a distinctive media figure, housing TV channels, Hurriyet and Milliyet newspapers of the group, creating the basis of interaction between the brands and providing a common source.
Butcher Works, on Arundel Street, Sheffield, has been recognised in the Best Building category at the prestigious Sheffield Design Award, organised by the Sheffield Civic Trust.
Rotterdam Stadiumpark will be developed into a sport campus in the period 2009-28. Within this the Kuip is redeveloped and a new Kuip gains a place on the river Maas alongside a new public transport node which ensures high level accessibility.
The Newcastle College Group has revealed its plans for a new £35 million campus for Skelmersdale and Ormskirk College in West Lancashire, designed by UK based international architects RMJM.
The dormitory for the staff of the NGO Magic Bus will be located in the valley below the Karjat Dam. Sited on the tip of a small plateau it overlooks paddy fields and sleepy villages.
Natural wood for the windows and doors that can be opened and fixed with laminated glass and air chamber. The finishes are completed by the Iragna stone for the floors of the external porches and pedestrian paths and external stairs.
The Multipurpose Hall required strong visibility from the street to allow it to serve as the public face of the school and provide a clear arrival point for visitors.
The £12 million 2,800 m² facility will house The Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), a world-leading team researching a cure for motor neurone disease.
This project is a home in Hawthorn designed to accommodate at the various stages of its life, a family, a single person, and a single person with large visiting family. The design concept of this home was to take a perfect shape, the copper sphere, and to remove parts.
A competition-winning project for an ambitious cultural development has been chosen for the renovation/revitalisation of the existing building and designing an addition at the courtyard façade.
Tiara United Towers project includes two similar Towers of 45 stories each, together with various services, and two associated parking garages. These towers are currently designed to a height of 193 meters.