Bibliothèque Nationale Paris: National Library
The largest of Mitterand´s Grand Projets for Paris: formed from four L-shaped corners of a square, 25 storeys tall on the banks of the Seine with a garden in the middle.
Zaha Hadid Architecture Designs: ZHA London
Zaha Hadid architecture designs : buildings from 2011 by architect Zaha Hadid – images, links + information
Design Museum Building London, Photos
The Design Museum has occupied the building since 1989. Exhibitions will continue at the site until its new home at the former Commonwealth Institute opens in 2014
Cité de la Musique La Villette, Paris Building
Cité de la Musique, Parc de la Villette, Paris, France – design by Christian de Portzamparc, architect – City of Music Paris building located on Avenue Jean-Jaurès
Louvre Pyramid Building – Architect
Louvre Pyramid Building, Paris, France – design by I M Pei, architect – information + photos of the Louvre Pyramid, lobby to famous French art gallery
Louvre Museum Building – Musée du Louvre Paris
Louvre Museum Building, Paris, France – information + photos of this major French art gallery – Musée du Louvre: Paris museum building
Ellis Residence Yeomalt Bluff House, WA
The Ellis Residence is an example of modern residential design incorporating local environmental concerns, state-of-the art energy efficiency and visionary educational opportunities for the public.
Milan Office Building, Via Turati: La Serenissima
This building is distinguished by the burnished colour finish of the metal structures on the facade, the tinted glass of the curtain wall system, the brown paintwork and the smaller volume used as a residential unit.
Surface Tension Exhibition Nevada Museum of Art
Smout Allen, architectural designers, researchers and university lecturers have been commissioned by the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA, to produce the centrepiece installation for their current exhibition “Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices, and Architectural Inventions”.
House 4×30 – São Paulo Residence
Encrusted in a row of narrow geminate houses, the story began more as a challenge rather than as an architectural project. How make the entire program of a house fit in that 4x30m lot, relying on a few illuminated surfaces?
Siódemka Shopping Centre – Elbląg Building
Broadway Malyanreveals concept design for the first 21st Century shopping centre in the northern Polish city of Elbląg and wider region
Parliament Building of German Speaking Community
Parliament Building of the German Speaking Community in Eupen, Belgium – design by Atelier Kempe Thill – The chamber officially represents the 74.000 inhabitants of the speech community: German Parliament Belgium, Eupen Building
Terme Olimia Kranjska Gora Spa Slovenia
Kranjska Gora is a well-known Slovenian ski resort town, almost qualifying as luxury, at least in the context of Slovenia. It lies on a plain by the source of the Sava Dolinka river and is encircled, particularly in the south, by a picturesque mountain landscape.
Ettrick Valley house: Borders weavers cottage property
This a rather sobre and restrained building set in the heart of the Scottish Borders, the bad weather photographs make it look a little lonely, but the timber styling is typically good quality as one would expect from this design-led architecture practice.