Work has started on John McAslan + Partners’ transformation of Darwen Vale High School in Blackburn. When completed in summer 2012, the project will create a new campus for the 1200-place community school, sensitively merging the existing grammar school with a new 8000m2 contemporary building.
The gates have opened in the UAE on the initial phase of Masdar, the world’s first carbon-neutral and zero-waste city.
Completion of The Factory, the new office building by Josep Lluís Mateo on the site of the old Renault factory in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris.
It is a residence for the client couple with their two small children. They requested a plan without a garden. Being busy with their work and child care, they considered it unrealistic to enjoy life with a garden.
Though its neighborhood is an old agricultural residential area, in recent times it has been changing rapidly with the appearance of a lot of ready-built houses and reconstruction of old houses.
At a height of 441.8 metres and 100 storeys, Kingkey Finance Tower is the tallest building ever completed by a British architect and the eighth tallest building in the world.
Located in Shenzhen, southern China’s major financial centre, Kingkey Finance Tower is part of a 417,000 sq/m mixed-use development designed by Farrells Hong Kong Office
By making typically behind-the-scenes aspects of the filmmaking process visible, the Columbia College Media Production Center is more than a building in which learning takes place: it is itself a valuable teaching tool
Situated on Britain’s only desert, the house relates both to the geography of Dungeness and the changing environmental conditions of the site throughout the seasons.
The Pampulha lagoon in Belo Horizonte is full of architectural significance and to build on its margins means to be close to the modernist legacy.
Aachenmünchener Headquarters Aachen, Germany – kadawittfeldarchitektur – German HQ building, Aachen commercial property, offices architecture design
Urban Realm, Carnyx Group – Scottish architecture magazine, Gordon Young, John Glenday, architects news Scotland – Carnyx Group Glasgow: UK architecture magazine
MGM MIRAGE CityCentre – Las Vegas Resort and Casino, Nevada, USA, by Gensler +Adamson Associates & Studio Daniel Libeskind ; Foster + Partners, Pelli Clarke Pelli, Rafael Vinoly, Rockwell Group – development for MGM Mirage
This is a delightful house made using Scottish oak structure and cladding, with a pool space set within a timber vaulted structure. If any readers have any further ifnormation on this property they are welcome to share it with us.