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.
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008: Kensington Gardens project design by Frank Gehry in London, England: contemporary UK architecture photos
Robert Adam Architects’ designs for a substantial classical house in Hampstead, replacing the 1970s Heath Park building, have been granted planning permission
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.
Al-Birr Foundation headquarters and office building. An intriciate and symbolic yet practical approach to an office tower that responds to a harsh environmental climate.
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
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.
The project by Holzer Kobler Architekturen for the competition of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Wroclaw is a visionary design consisting of two elements.
Ljubljana Business House: The industrial context of the new business palace with public program implies a simple volume which becomes complex on the inside, animating end engaging the occupants.
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.
New Unit at Arup Associates Launched at Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy – offers a radical pan-disciplinary approach that focuses on people from the outset, through the united vision of architects, engineers, artists and social scientists
At 56 Leonard Street, the architects’ intention is to preserve the celebratory spirit of traditional skyscrapers while introducing new structural possibilities and suggesting fresh ways for people inside such towers to relate to their city.
The Tanger Med is a passengers harbour, dimensioned for traffic increasing up to 10 million passengers/year by 2020. It is inside a general harbour masterplan for the first harbour of the Mediterranean area, containing equipments and amenities for all categories of passengers and traffic.
VNF Headquarters Paris: Quay des Invalides Building – design by Odile Decq Benoît Cornette, architects – Parisian Architecture Project, France
Between the two rivers, Rhone and Saône, the renovation of the docks is starting a new story: the bank for arts. New programs dedicated to the culture, to relax and to walk keeping the link and the imaginary with the industrial history of the site.
After winning the first price in an invited competition in 2003, the architects where challenged to create a high quality residential accommodation that would be expressive, joyful and respect the qualities of the location.
The rebuilding of Wexford Opera House, is one of Ireland’s most important cultural projects of recent times, and has been completed on schedule for the 2008 autumn opera festival.