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.

Guantanamo Bay Detention Center proposal, Cuba

Guantanamo Bay Detention Center Cuba project

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.

Lewisham Apartments: South London Flats

Lewisham Apartments by Duggan Morris Architects

Lewisham Apartments design by Duggan Morris Architects – Lewisham Council has granted planning permission for a contemporary building by Duggan Morris Architects for Angelana Investments

Norfolk Academy: Norwich School Building

Norfolk Academy Norwich school interior

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

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.

Contour House, Bellarine Peninsula Home

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

St. Neots Creative Exchange building

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.

Falvey House, Australia: Warburton Home

Falvey House Warburton property by BKK Architects

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.