Libertys Store London – Regent Street Shop

Libertys Store London, Architecture, Shop, Images, Location, Shopping, Picture Liberty of London : Store Regent Street Store, central London, England, UK: Information + Photos 17 Sep 2008 Liberty of London Store Photos © Adrian Welch, Sep 2008 Liberty’s department store Location: Regent Street, east side, south end – between Soho and Mayfair Tube Station: Oxford … Read more

Saint-Gobain Headquarters Tokyo, Kojimachi

Saint-Gobain Headquarters Tokyo - Kojimachi Building

Saint-Gobain Building, Japan: Tokyo Headquarters: HQ in Kojimachi – design by albert abut architecture, architects, with illuminated wall mural – artist/designer: xenovision / Christopher M. Gaston.

French School Lycee Franco Japonais, Tokyo

French School Lycee Franco Japonais - Building, Tokyo

LFJT – Lycée Franco-Japonais de Tokyo (the French international school in Tokyo, Japan) exploits the translucent qualities provided by glass blocks: Japanese educational building design by albert abut architecture.

Young Vic Theatre, London Southwark

Young Vic Theatre, London Southwark building

Young Vic Theatre, London arts venue design by Haworth Tompkins Architects. The Cut is a cheerfully scruffy part of south London into which in the 1970s architect Bill Howell introduced the Young Vic at a cost of a mere £60,000

Serpentine Pavilion Gallery 2008: Frank Gehry

Serpentine Pavilion Gallery 2008 by Frank Gehry

The highly articulated structure – designed and engineered in collaboration with Arup – comprises large timber planks and multiple glass planes that soar and swoop at different angles to create a dramatic multi-dimensional space.

Hampstead House, Heath Park Property

Robert Adam Architects’ designs for a substantial classical house in Hampstead, replacing the 1970s Heath Park building, have been granted planning permission

Richard Stockton College New Jersey, USA

Richard Stockton College New Jersey, USA

he $40 million project included six, three-story dormitory buildings that total 165,000 square feet that accommodates 390 students. Each building is 27,500 square feet and is constructed of wood with hardi-board siding.

45 Park Lane Mayfair, London Dorchester Collection

Paul Davis + Partners, in collaboration with The Office of Thierry W. Despont Ltd., has achieved planning permission from Westminster City Council for the conversion, refurbishment and re-facing of 45 Park Lane for client Dorchester Collections

Exchange Greengate Salford building

Exchange Greengate Salford building

Whitelaw Turkington and Arup have been appointed as designers of the public spaces at Exchange Greengate in Central Salford. The 13-hectare, mixed-use development will create a new urban quarter linking the cities of Salford and Manchester, with a stunning public realm at its heart.

Architecture Foundation Discussion: Brutalism

Francis Bacon’s life, from 1909 – 1992, covered an exceptional period of transformation in architecture and art. He worked at a time when continental modernism, in art, architecture and design, was reinvented in a British context.