Kolkata Book Fair Pavilion, India Design, Architect
Graeme Massie resigns from designing Kolkata Book Fair Pavilion for Scotland. Competition organisers, like the British Council, should do their utmost to ensure the winner’s design is realised.
Unseen Current Ball-Nogues Studio installations
How do we make something that sculpturally modulate space and changes the circulation flow of an existing architectural environment while using almost no material?
Maimonides Central Sepharadi Synagogue, Israel
The courtyard at the front of the building forms a transition area, separating that which is holy from the secular. Access to the courtyard is via a wide staircase, located in between two existing eucalyptus trees “to exalt the house of the Lord.”
Windshape France, Lacoste Building
Windshape was an ephemeral structure commissioned by the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) as a venue and gathering space near their Provence campus in Lacoste, France.
Liasanden Mountain Rasteplass, Sognefjell, Norway
Liasanden Mountain Rasteplass, Sognefjell: contemporary architecture design by JSA, Norway – just one of many interventions in this inspirational project to create special moments in the Norwegian landscape
Juvet Landscape Hotel, Gudbrandsjuvet
This delightful Norwegian country accommodation is described by the organisation as, “On a sheer river bank, amongst birch, aspen, pine and Nature-sculpted boulders, lies Juvet, Europe’s first landscape hotel.
Gudbrandsjuvet Viewingplatform, Norway
A circular-shaped viewing platform design by JSA leads through the terrain up to the Gudbrandsjuvet Café, located at the very edge of the swirling Valldøla river: Gudbrandsjuvet Viewingplatform, Norwegian landscape architecture
Gary Comer Youth Center Chicago building
This 74,000 square foot youth center, located in one of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, demonstrates a commitment to social progress in providing a constructive environment for area youths to spend their after-school hours.
DogA Exhibition Centre, Oslo, Norway
The old transformer station in Hausmanns gate 16 is home to the two organisations. The centre also provides an arena for architecture and design exhibitions, conferences and meetings, as well as a shop, a café & restaurant.
Bad Gleichenberg Hotel, Austria Thermal Bath
In 2005, the hotel was further enriched when a swimming pool and spa area was added. Today Michael and Christoph Stenitzer are the third generation of hoteliers.
Switch Building, New York Apartments + Gallery
Switch Building is a 7 storey apartment and art gallery building at 109 Norfolk Street in the Lower East Side, New York City.
Vanhaerents Office Building Belgium
Vanhaerents office building, Belgium design by BURO II, Architects – contemporary Belgian architecture. As the existing offices had to remain in use during construction and the site could not accommodate a new building adjacent to the existing volume, the new offices were built above the existing ones.
Kiesler Exhibition New York, Drawing Center
The walls of the gallery are left blank – for the first time in The Drawing Center’s history. Visitors are guided along a curatorial itinerary divided into four themes relevant to the avant garde architect’s work: Correalism, Perception, Endless Architecture, and Exhibition Design.
Tyhume Theatre, South Africa building
Ryder Architecture and theatre company Dodgy Clutch have joined forces to launch a cultural regeneration project in South Africa’s Eastern Cape which will see the construction of a new community theatre.