Square Nine Hotel by Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld in Belgrade’s pretty old-town neighbourhood Stari Grad. Set near Kalamegdan Park and the River Danube, and just across from Students Square (Studentski Trg)
Set in the heart of the walled city of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, RAAS is a 1.5-acre property uniquely located at the base of the Mehrangarh Fort
The brief for ACCOR Hospitality’s new twelve level, 4 star, 263-key Novotel hotel at Auckland International Airport called for a significant new landmark with an unmistakably ‘New Zealand’ identity.
Memorial house Todor Proeski, Macedonia: Krushevo building design by Syndicate studio – the given location for this project with the surrounding elements on this hilly, indigenous landscape tell the story of Macedonian’s painful journey to freedom.
The project is located near the centre of New Delhi at a busy traffic junction, a short distance from Humayun’s Tomb, the 16th century Mogul monument. Having established a reputation as a leader in exclusive resort hotels, this project represents one of Amanresorts first urban properties.
NO99 Straw Theatre, New Tallinn Building – design by Salto AB OÜ – an object standing on the verge of being a pure functional container on one hand, and an art installation on the other: NO99 Straw Theatre Tallinn, Salto Estonia
Lasva Water Tower, Estonia – design by logon, architects – conversion into a performance space, visitor centre and an art gallery in South Estonia
The Governmental City of the State of Zacatecas in Mexico, is built in a property known as “Cerro del Gato” (Cat’s Hill) in the suburbs of the City of Zacatecas.
Saint Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church is the result of a transformation of an existing metal shop building into a sanctuary and fellowship hall in anticipation of a larger adjacent sanctuary on the same site.
Michel Brisson Store – Montreal boutique: The building’s interior was thus stripped to its original brutalist structure, which revealed itself to be surprisingly striking.
Mount Melleray is a functioning monastery of Cistercian monks which forms part of the Irish national consciousness due to its historical and literary associations. This project required the reordering of part of the monastery to provide a new accommodation wing for the monks.
With its carefully scaled massing and richly patterned cladding of spandrel and clear glass, the Durham Consolidated Courthouse makes a significant contribution to the civic architecture of the emerging urban framework of downtown Oshawa.
El Lasso Community Centre Las Palmas, the architectural project always negotiates with the territory, although sometimes this negotiation comes given to us – Las Palmas building in Spain – design by Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos.
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