Vatnsmýri Urban Plan Competition: Iceland Building

Vatnsmýri Urban Plan Competition

Design: Graeme Massie Architects

International design competition winners for the development of an urban plan for the area of Vatnsmýri in central Reykjavik. The aim of the competition was to maximize the opportunity offered by Vatnsmýri to consolidate and strengthen the city for the 21st century.

Supreme Court Iceland, Icelandic Architecture

Supreme Court building Reykjavik model

The Supreme Court of Iceland is the final court of appeal in the judiciary of Iceland. It is also the oldest court of law in Iceland and the higher of the two Icelandic court branches.

Schlump One Hamburg office building

Schlump One Hamburg Office Building

Schlump One Hamburg, Germany design by J. Mayer H. Architects at Schlump station in Eimsbüttel of Hamburg for both university and office use. The original administration building from the 1950s and 90s was gutted, renovated and expanded, and has now been converted into an office building with four possible rental units per floor.

Coffee Plaza HafenCity, Neumann Kaffee Gruppe Hamburg

Coffee Plaza HafenCity, Neumann Kaffee Gruppe Hamburg

Richard Meier & Partners Architects has been awarded the American Architecture Award 2011 for Coffee Plaza in Hamburg, Germany. The American Architectural Awards is one of the most prestigious building awards program in the United States that honors “new and cutting-edge design”.

Hamburg Spiegel Group Headquarters building

Hamburg Spiegel Group Headquarters building

Henning Larsen Architects has won an international architectural competition for designing the Spiegel Group’s new headquarters in Hamburg. The winning project comprises 50.000 m2 and is located on the inner harbour of Ericusspitze. This will be an outstanding building in Hamburg’s harbour.

Icelandic Opera Reykjavik Building, Architect

Icelandic Opera Reykjavik building design by Arkitema architects

Arkitema and Arkthing wins the international architectural competition for The Icelandic Opera – The national opera in Iceland aquires a new shining opera house with views to elf hill and the surrounding town.

El Ray holiday house Dungeness, Kent home

El Ray holiday house Dungeness, Kent home

The Stephen Lawrence Prize was set up in 1998 to draw attention to the Stephen Lawrence Trust to assist young black students to study architecture and to reward smaller projects and the creativity required when architects are working with low budgets

Spiegel Group Hamburg HQ building, Germany

Spiegel Group Hamburg HQ building, Germany

Hamburg Spiegel HQ building design by Henning Larsens Architects: Germany offices, images, Inner Harbour commercial property on Ericusspitze. The winning project comprises 50.000 m2 and is located on the inner harbour of Ericusspitze. This will be an outstanding building in Hamburg’s harbour.

Brighton House, Sussex Home by DRP Architects

Brighton House Photos, Sussex Residence, Architecture, , Architect, Building, Housing Brighton House : New Sussex Property Eco-House in East Sussex, southeast England, UK – design by DRP Architects 9 Jun 2008 Brighton Property DRP Architects Completes Award-Winning Eco-House on Challenging Central Brighton ‘Brown Field’ Site On 28 June, 2007, an award-winning new eco-house at Whichelo … Read more

Hof Residence, Iceland Home: Icelandic House

Hof Residence Skakafjordur fjord, Iceland

Hof is a country residence in the Skakafjördur fjord, less than 100km from the Arctic Circle. The spectacle of the location, its remoteness and special program fuelled a unique rapport between the client, contractor and architect resulting in a building that is in every respect a direct consequence of that collaboration.

Phaeno Centre Wolfsburg Building, Germany

The Science Center, the first of its kind in Germany, appears as a mysterious object, giving rise to curiosity and discovery. The visitor is faced with a degree of complexity and strangeness, which is ruled however by a very specific system of structural organization.