Uig property, new Isle of Skye House design by Dualchas architects: a challenge to design a two storey modern building on an elevated site in Uig, Skye, which could exploit the views, yet be unobtrusive.
Omniyat Properties and Zaha Hadid Architects revealed the Opus, a mixed-use commercial and retail development located in the Business Bay district of Dubai.
The Opus project combines art and performance with form and functionality. The building is another example of the continued economic growth in Dubai and the growing opportunities for overseas investment.
Planning restrictions on height meant that this four-bedroom guest house, in Harrapool on the Isle of Skye, had to be kept relatively low, so as not to block neighbours’ views.
The existing Coll byre was converted and improved for holiday lettings. Part of a phase development, this conversion forms one side of a proposed courtyard of holiday-let buildings.
Erick van Egeraat has started construction of Business Park and Leisure Centre for the Milanofiori North mixed-use development area. The project developed by Brioschi Sviluppo Immobiliare spa is one of the biggest developments in Europe.
Argyll & Bute Council produced a strategic plan for the Kintyre Peninsula which identified the need to regenerate the Campbeltown Town Centre and to attract people to the area, in particular professionals such as doctors and nurses.
City Design Co-operative Ltd. is happy to announce that ‘Dysart Artworks’ has won this year’s Scottish Design Awards in the category Landscape Architecture.
Puttershoek + Hoofddorp residential projects: Netherlands building design by Biq Architects – Dutch housing, Puttershoek + Hoofddorp homes
Woodhorn Colliery, Ashington, Northumberland was a working pit from 1894 – 1981. It opened as a museum in 1989, using the original listed pit buildings to describe mining in Northumberland.
Architecture practice Walters and Cohen has been awarded a prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Award today for its benchmark design of Redbrook Hayes Primary School in Rugeley, Staffordshire, UK
“Invention + Intervention”: A hugely open title which might as well have read ‘Personal sales-pitch’, ‘Free-for- all’ or ‘I am so great’. One could have imagined all the speakers focusing on ‘local materials’ in their work for example.
Mesa becomes a microcosmic extrusion of the spatial ideas inherent in Zaha’s architecture. Form doesn’t follow only function but instead is drawn along by the narrative of the plan and flow of space.
The next July 21st 2007 in the CCCB (Center of Contemporary Culture of Bareclona) Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch Architect and Urban Planne in the phenomenon of urban megapolis over the age of globalization, and Michel Houellebecq
Scottish Property Awards 2006 Shortlist news, Commercial Development of the Year: 110 St Vincent Street Glasgow, 200 Broomielaw Glasgow, Aurora Glasgow, Sentinel Glasgow
Living Wall is a 150,000-square-metre mixed-use complex set on an excavated rock shelf at the base of a sheer cliff face in the centre of Amman. The place, its geology and history have been strong influences on the scheme’s design.
Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, built in 1995-1998, with a program of museum for contemporary art and Archaeology, gross floor surface: 6.100 m², volume: 40.000 m³