Shrinkage Awards: Shahneshin Foundation

Shahneshin Foundation Competition, Shrinkage Awards, Switzerland – information on architects, buildings, images – winners include Elena Giacomolli, David Holt and Christopher Patten.

Doncaster Racehorse Facility: Bloodstock Sales

A £7m million state-of-the-art thoroughbred racehorse facility was opened this week by England footballer Michael Owen. The facility is owned by Doncaster Bloodstock Sales (DBS), auctioneers of some of the world’s top racehorses including 12 Grand National winners.

Doncaster Civic Offices: Waterdale Building

Doncasterʼs new civic offices will be located in the heart of the CCQ and become central to plans to transform the Waterdale area of town – building design by Cartwright Pickard Architects

Zonnebeke Library, Belgium: Flanders’ Fields

Zonnebeke Library, Belgium: Flanders' Fields

Belgian architect Wim Supply realized an integration project in Zonnebeke, a village in Flanders’ Fields, the battlefields of the Great War. In the Chateau Park, where you find the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, he built a cortensteel building to house the youth library of Zonnebeke.

Sheikh Zayad Bridge Abu Dhabi, Zaha Hadid

There is a highly mobile society, which requires a new route around the Gulf south shore, connecting the three Emirates together. In 1967 a steel arch bridge was built to connect the fledgling city of Abu Dhabi island to the mainland.

New Town Tower, London Skyscraper

It is estimated that London will need to provide housing for almost 100 000 people every year up to 2016¹. This is the result not only of migration (internal and global) but also the need to replace existing housing stock that is reaching the end of its lifecycle.

Bijlmer ArenA Station Amsterdam building

Bijlmer ArenA Station Amsterdam interior design

The Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA Station is situated on the southeast of the city on the line that links Amsterdam with Utrecht. To the west there is a commercial development area punctuated by the newly built Amsterdam Arena, a 50,000 seat football stadium

Mull Theatre, Tobermory Building: Aros Park

Mull Theatre, West Highlands

As justification of the Inner Hebridean Island of Mull’s growing presence on the UK cultural map, Mull Theatre’s new Production Centre is the first phase in the company’s plans for a Creative Campus on the island, designed by the City Architecture Office (CiAO).