Saint-Blaise crèche Paris nursery building
The success of the Saint-Blaise crèche and day nursery project depends on its capacity to provide an architectural solution to a number of specific and extremely constraining problems
La Maladière, Neuchatel Building: Swiss Stadium
A backfill completed at the beginning of the 20th century – the available parcel – the old football stadium – was at the articulation of four forms of urbanism.
Doors Open Toronto architects, buildings
Doors Open Toronto, the popular annual citywide celebration featuring free access to architecturally, historically, culturally and socially significant buildings, is back for its 11th year.
One Bloor East Tower Toronto building
1 Bloor East. This hybrid of residential tower and commercial space is located at a very prominent site in Toronto, Canada. Hariri Pontarini Architects in collaboration with Great Gulf Homes has recently revealed the new design for One Bloor; a landmark for the city of Toronto.
Highlands House: Ross-shire home, Scotland property
“Winner of the the Scottish Design Awards’ ‘Best Residential Category’ and ‘Northern Exposure’ prize, this large single storey house is located in Ross-Shire. It has been designed to integrate well with the rural vernacular, using the forms of local agricultural buildings.
Gifford buildings, East Lothian architecture
The village takes its name from the 13th-century Sir Hugo de Giffard of Yester, whose ancient Scoto-Norman family possessed the baronies of Yester, Morham, and Duncanlaw in Haddingtonshire, and Tayling and Poldame in the counties of Perthshire and Forfar.
Charity Chair Cape Town, South Africa Building
The German magazine AIT invited 100 selected architecture and interior design offices across Europe to redesign the ‘ONO’ chair produced the Dietiker company.
Scottish Eco-Town: Cardenden buildings, Fife: Arkitema
Scotland’s first ‘zero-carbon settlement’ is a 5,000 home eco-town in Cardenden, Fife. Cardenden Eco-town ‘Vision and Delivery Statement’ unveiled by Banks Developments in Edinburgh on 28 Feb, attended by MSPs.
Sheffield Architecture Photos: Building Images
Sheffield architecture photos – South Yorkshire building images, focusing on major contemporary Northern English architectural designs, UK built environment
Living Steel Restello, Kolkata Apartments: Indian Building
Restello the radical steel apartment project designed by UK architects PiercyConner and winner of the Living Steel International Architecture Competition in 2006, is ready to go to market in Kolkata, India.
Liuzhou building, Longtan Park Chinese housing
Next to Liuzhou, a city in the south of China that is located on the edge of the exceptionally beautiful Karst mountain range and is protected as a World Heritage site, a limestone mine is situated.
DIGI Technology Operation Centre Selangor
The Client’s brief is to design a Data Centre in Selangor, Malaysia, based ‘IT Data Center’s Uptime Institute’ Tier III platform with possibility to scale-up to Tier IV security and with ecological features.
World Sustainability Centre, Afsluitdijk, Netherlands
SITE – The World Sustainability Centre in Afsluitdijk is an exemplar of connectivity. It refuses to exist in isolation in spite of its relatively remote location from major or even minor population centers.
Southampton Academies Building, England
This announcement follows a five-month design competition involving the City Council, its Academies sponsor, Oasis Community Learning, and two national construction firms. Carillion won the tender and secured preferred bidder status.