The UK government has set an ambitious and necessary target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050. The carbon footprint of buildings is the source of over 50% of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK (DCLG)
KEO International Consultants designed BARWA’s prestigious Financial District Project in Doha, Qatar: two nautilus forms spiral in opposing directions, creating dynamic flow of mass and space
Milan Santamonica Church, Italy, design by Studio Nicoletti Associati, architects, to act as the central structure in the new 2000 home satellite district of Segrate Santamonica, located in the north east axis of Milan, due for completion in 2013.
Working with its partner Kier Construction, BDP has won the commission to design the new Abraham Darby Sport & Learning Academy at Ironbridge in Telford, as part of the Telford BSF project
Weisman Art Museum Expansion, Minneapolis building design by Frank Gehry – extension, Minneapolis architecture images, Frank Gehry USA
Stirling Prize 2009 – Shortlisted Buildings + Architects Opinion. Favourites Tony Fretton Architects have never been shortlisted for this award before but are well known for considered, subtle projects.
Design: NORD Architects. This young architecture office has won the competition for a new healthcare center for cancer patients. In the future when the citizens of Copenhagen are diagnosed with cancer, they and their families can get help with rehabilitation and support in a new and exceptional building.
The Jerwood DanceHouse Ipswich, Suffolk Arts Building Project, News, Tower Design, Image The Jerwood DanceHouse England Arts Development in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK – design by John Lyall Architects 13 Oct 2009 The Jerwood DanceHouse Location: Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK The Jerwood DanceHouse consists of: 4 studios (including a studio theatre) Back-up areas including pilates … Read more
Cranfields Mill, the site of the Jerwood DanceHouse, sits on the north side of the Orwell in Ipswich, to the south of the town centre. Until ten years ago, it was a working flourmill, receiving grain cultivated in the great East Anglia bread basket, milling it, and sending it out across the world in ships that came up the estuary to the port at Ipswich
The Bridge Culture Museum is located at the centre of the QiaoYuan Park, Tianjin. Because of it special location, on the central axis facing to the main entrance, this zone is designed as a leisure and exhibition space in order to meet people’s needs of ‘pleasurable show space’.
The south side of the site overlooks a densely vegetated county park, but is restricted by a 100 year flood plain within close proximity to the existing library
Set along a commercial shopping strip highway, Kirkwood Public Library is designed as roadside billboard announcing the public civic function of reading, learning and exploration within
As part of the positive urban transformation placing Interstate Highway 93 underground, the Light Portal marks the datum line through which the nine lane highway descends from the Zakim Bridge into the Central Artery Tunnel.
RIBA Gold Medal 2009 Winner, Alvaro Siza Vieira architect from Portugal, Royal Institute of British Architects – UK architecture awards, key projects by Siza. This Portuguese architectural studio, located in Porto