Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier has designed two new W Hotels for Starwood in Mexico. The W Santa Fe in Mexico City and the W Retreat Kanai on the Riviera Maya are scheduled to open in 2013 and 2014 respectively.
In the French city of Lyon, the Croix-Rousse Hospital is to be extended. Its actual organization has set up a “classical grandeur”. Located at the top of a hill, the institution overviews the city’s landscape, major and reassuring presence
CasaArt is composed of a number of distinct parts. It will be perceived as an accessible, permeable culture organism within the city, a cultural “medina”. The presence of CasaArt on the large rectangle of the square appears as a structure composed of pavilions, containing cafés and bookshops.
The new museum will be the business card at our headquarters in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen and will represent the Company both inwardly and outwardly,
TOTAL Extension 853, Kahale building, Lebanese architecture design by SE.Arch: like an unusual creature with sprawling emergences, it draws its essence from the earth’s base and emerges in height.
Las Arenas shopping center Barcelona, Catalonia mall design by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners – Catalan retail development, former Barcelona Bull Ring
Regional power is growing stronger, and thus needs to assert its presence, to be symbolized in the urban space. Immediately the building shows its interior composed of debate and meeting areas.
Rue de la Loi, Brussels, Belgium design by L’Escaut-Gigogne – Belgian competition project at the heart of the European administration’s quarters
In Nanterre, at the western extremity of the district of La Défense, this project fits into an exiguous triangular site and figures as the prow of the Valmy district.
The form of the Chanel Pavilion is a celebration of the iconic work of Chanel, unmistakeable for its smooth layering of exquisite details that together create an elegant, cohesive whole.
Peruvian waterfront property: beach house in the desert coast of Peru by architect Javier Artadi – photos featured on e-architect a few weeks ago but now with text and more images, 12 Jun 2011
Ullswater Yacht Clubhouse, Cumbria, Lake District Architecture Contest, England – entry by studioctopi – Cumbrian architectural competition
Southampton police’s Operational Command Unit, designed by international architecture, urbanism and design practice Broadway Malyan and built by Kier Southern, has officially opened.
This new building for the Faculty of Education at the University of Seville on the campus of Viapol – design by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos – will house up to 5,000 students nine degrees.