Aberdeen Regeneration Plans: Community Renewal

Union Terrace Gardens Transformation Rosemount Viaduct Aberdeen

Planning to deliver improved housing, shopping, community facilities, green spaces and streetscapes across six Aberdeen communities took a further step forward this week with the launch of a major community consultation programme.

Anton Chekhov House: Polish Home Competition

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russia

Anton Chekhov House, Architecture Competition Poland, Polish Design Contest House Design Contest in Poland : Polish Architecture Competition Anton Chekhov House, Eastern Europe 28 Jan 2010 Polish House Design Contest A House For Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 – 1904) a Russian playwright and short-story writer: photo : Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia … Read more

RIAS President, Scotland – Arnie Dunn

Arnie Dunn has always been ambitious but this drive is tempered by a strong belief in the collaborative imperative of architecture. I first meet Arnie back in the late 1980’s when we both worked at Campbell + Arnott Architects.

Brooklyn College New York, School Building

Brooklyn College New York school building

Brooklyn College, City University of New York building design by Rafael Vinoly Architects – senior college of the City University of New York, located at 2900 Bedford Ave, NY 11210, United States of America

Mahler 4 Office Tower, Amsterdam Building

Mahler 4 Office Tower, Amsterdam building

The Mahler 4 Office Tower is a mixed-use development in Amsterdam’s Zuidas district, an ambitious urban regeneration project located approximately halfway between the city center and Schiphol Airport.

Peabody Trust Housing, Silvertown Homes

In December 2002, we won a design competition organised by the Peabody Trust. It was called Fresh Ideas for Low Cost Housing. The site was in Silvertown in East London, between Royal Victoria Dock and the River Thames.

Clonakilty Ireland Home: Dirk Cove House

Galley Head Lighthouse is one of a chain of beacons built to protect shipping along the rock-bound, stormy Atlantic coast of Ireland. Its name belongs with Fastnet and Mizen Head, among the litany of famous storms and wrecks synonymous with this coastline.

Lumiere Tower Leeds Skyscraper Building

A mixed-use development comprising residential, including serviced apartments, retail and commercial use. The scheme consists of two towers, one that is 171m / 54 storeys high and one that is a 113m / 32 storeys high.

Hadspen Parabola, Somerset Competition

Hadspen Parabola, Somerset Competition

The Parabola project at Hadspen represents a commitment to seeking out radical solutions to planting, and to exploring the links that gardening can make to other fields of creativity

Brooklyn Children’s Museum New York

Rafael Viñoly Architects’ expansion of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, located at the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue and St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, has reached substantial completion. It is applying for LEED certification at the Silver level, which will make it New York City’s first LEED-certified museum upon approval.

Bronx County Hall of Justice New York Courts

Bronx County Hall of Justice New York building

The Bronx County Hall of Justice stands prominently on its two-block site facing East 161st Street near the borough’s Grand Concourse. The building houses forty-seven courtrooms, seven grand jury rooms, offices, and provides underground parking for 240 vehicles.