Storage House Tokyo: Japanese Residence

Storage House Tokyo

Storage House Tokyo : Kanagawa Residence, contemporary Japanese residential building design by Ryuji Fujimura Architects, Japan: the ‘house like a store’ is located in a residential area on the suburbs of Tokyo.

Cronton Colliery Competition: Architecture Contest

Cronton Colliery Architecture Competition, Building Contest England, Architect, News Cronton Colliery Competition English Design Contest: Building in England, UK Architecture 20 Apr 2012 Cronton Colliery Competition Winner Location: Knowsley, near Liverpool, north west England Cronton Colliery Competition – Winner Announced Michael Lee Architects Cronton Colliery design by Michael Lee Architects: picture from architect The challenge … Read more

Grand Hotel Birmingham accommodation building

Grand Hotel Birmingham accommodation building

After 11 years of dereliction the council and locals feared for the future of this landmark hotel until, in 2010, Hortons’ Estates commissioned Berman Guedes Stretton to design a scheme that would rescue the hotel and restore it to its former glory.

Martin House Complex: Frank Lloyd Wright Buffalo

Martin House Complex by Frank Lloyd Wright in Buffalo

For a period of some 22 years – from 1927 to 1949 – a critical mass of Wright-designed structures stood in and around Buffalo. This concentration of Wrightian buildings was the second largest in the nation, after that of the Chicago area.

Osgoode Hall Law School York University building

Osgoode Hall Law School York University building

A newly transformed Osgoode Hall Law School opened officially today at York University in Toronto. An extensive renovation and expansion of the 43-year-old facility adds study and administrative space and brings a welcome infusion of natural light and improved amenities to better serve Canada’s largest law school.

Beaumaris Dental Victoria dentists building

This project began when two dentists, who are also father and son, decided that they needed a new building for their growing dental practice – a building that would reflect the quality of their dentistry and modern equipment and a building that would serve their business well into the future.

The Spiral Malaysia Residential Building

Connecting three levels of a multi-generational home the spiral concerns both the poetic and the pragmatic. The skill and delicate craft of traditional boat builders was enlisted to build the curving tapering form.

Nile Tower Cairo, Egyptian Skyscraper Building

Nile Tower Cairo building design by Zaha Hadid Architects

The main structural elements of this 70 storey hotel and apartment tower are concrete fin walls that rotate gently over the full height of the tower. The gradual rotation of the fin walls generates a wide selection of orientations for the hotel rooms and apartments.