Tower of Music Valencia, Berklee College Building
The city of Valencia is considered to be one of the three most important cities in Spain due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean arch, its mild climate and its cultural heritage.
Las Tablas, Telefonica District C Madrid
Las Tablas is a large residential area, with a low density, which was built very recently on private land, without any special intention behind the planning.
Spatially and conceptually, Distrito C absorbs very little of this environment.
Tangen Polytechnic College, Kristiansand Building
The Tangen VGS (a 16-19 technical/media education) will be situated beautifully at an open site right by the Otra River, south to the characteristic grid quarters of the Kristiansand renaissance city.
High Council of Chambers of Commerce Madrid
The word chamber refers to an enclosed space or cavity as in a gun and it can also be used to denote a closed hall or room. Chamber is also synonymous of a private assembly or the body of people who meet in the hall or room.
Stadshuis Nieuwegein, Dutch City Hall Building
Stadshuis Nieuwegein, City Hall Building Holland, Dutch 3XN Project, Design Stadshuis Nieuwegein, Holland : Dutch City Hall Nieuwegein City Hall Development – design by 3XN in The Netherlands 27 Mar 2009 City Hall ‘Stadshuis’ Nieuwegein Location: Nieuwegein, The Netherlands Architect: 3XN A/S The ‘Stadshuis’ – City Hall – of Nieuwegein mix traditional city hall features … Read more
Taipei Performing Arts Center Abalos + Sentkiewicz
From human being origins, people doing circles around someone who is speaking, singing, dancing or arguing – under a tree shadow if possible – has been the main characteristic of performing.
Spotlight: The Rice Design Alliance Prize
Spotlight: The Rice Design Alliance Prize – information on architects, buildings, images – Rice Design Alliance prize, RDA architecture award news
Hatlehol Church, Norway, Aalesund Building
Hatlehol Church Aalesund: young Danish architects Cornelius + Vöge has won a large international competition on a new church in Norway, from 123 competitors from all over Europe.
20 Blackfriars Southwark Tower Building
Public Inquiry decision: Wilkinson Eyre retention on the project by Circleplane halted. Comment from architect Jim Eyre, Director, Wilkinson Eyre, “We are very pleased for our client, Circleplane and, of course, for the team at No. 1 Blackfriars.”
House of Arts and Culture Beirut, Lebanon
House of Arts and Culture Beirut: design by Lebanon architecture competition winner – Alberto Catalano. Cultural project funded by a grant from the Sultanate of Oman to the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lebanon.
Hemeroscopium Residence, Madrid Property
Design: Ensamble Studio, architects. The building traps, a domestic space, and a distant horizon. And it does so playing a game with structures placed in an apparently unstable balance, that enclose the living spaces allowing the vision to escape.
Art Museum Strongoli, Italy: Coop Himmelb(l)au
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU has been commissioned for the Art Museum Strongoli and selected for the project “Walking through the History” as a result of a two-staged tender in Perugia.
Central Embassy Bangkok, Thailand building
The architecture practice headed by RIBA Stirling Prize-winning architect Amanda Levete, has completed Central Embassy, a striking 37 floor tall retail, leisure and hotel tower in central Bangkok for Central Group, Thailand’s leading retailer and department store operator.
Great Ormond Street Hospital Building, London
Construction has begun on the first phase of the new, £300m Mittal Children’s Medical Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOSH), which is on target to become the UK’s ‘greenest’ medical building to date.