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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mayors of middle sized European cities live in a turmoil of political, corporate, cultural and private life. The residence operates in flexible ways between these four conditions like a multicore processor.
The site of this private house is part of a residential redevelopment in Katendrecht, a harbour pier south of Hotel New York. Until the 1970’s Katendrecht was still completely surrounded by harbours and ships.
C.F. Hansen Medal, Architecture Award Denmark – awarded to Kim Herforth Nielsen in 2009: information on architects, buildings, images – Danish Architecture Award, news
The hut is situated in a small Alpine village, part of Triglav national park with very strict rules of construction and architectural design. The client bought the site together with existing construction permit for the generic project.
All recreative, scientific and commercial program is organised in compact enclaves (islands and water parcels), with a maximum variation parallel to the dam and maximum functional use perpendicular to the dam.
Energy from the Earth: With its establishment in 1992 the Forschungszentrum Dresden – Rossendorf took over the task of developing a modern, internationally competitive research institution at this location. For this purpose steps had to be initiated to modernize buildings and infrastructure in order to run them on a commercially viable basis.
The building is situated in the old centre of Athens on a main street which joins the city with the main port Piraeus. It has a total surface of 1634 sqm on six floors
The dichotomy between high and low culture is slowly disappearing. But how can we create an environment that is inspiring for everyone? Is it possible to be elitist and populist at the same time? How can we envision a truly Public building?