Blackwood Bus Station – Caerphilly Building

This is a fairly simple building design by a borough council architects department. The roofline is interesting and the building is fairly well articulated but the UK does not have a strong tradition (these days) of high quality council architecture departments.

Dubai Capital Centre Hotel, UAE

This building design proposal by RMJM – headquartered in Scotland but with offices in Dubai – is not to be confused with the similar sounding Centro Capital Centre – Abu Dhabi, close to the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre in the UAE capital.

Al Ain Masterplan: UAE Community Building

Al Ain Masterplan: UAE Community Building

Design work has now been finalised on HOK’s masterplan for a major urban community on the northeast outskirts of Al Ain. The challenge of the masterplan lay in establishing itself as a business and tourist alternative to Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Coventry University Competition: Building

Coventry University Competition building design

Arup Associates has won a competition to design the new Coventry University Engineering and Computing Building. The practice triumphed over a shortlist that included big names such as Foster & Partners, Fielden Clegg Bradley and Wilkinson Eyre

Lancashire Pennine Squared Competition

A design team comprising Graeme Massie Architects, rankinfraser landscape architecture and artist Donald Urquhart have been shortlisted to design a series of public spaces and artworks for the Lancashire town of Clitheroe.

160 Tooley Street, Southwark, London

160 Tooley Street, London, Southwark building – design by AHMM – new mixed-use development for Great Portland Estates: 160 Tooley St London

Frankfurt Citi Data Centre – Hesse Building

Frankfurt Data Centre, Architect, Citi Building, Photo, German Financial Services Frankfurt Citi Data Centre, Hesse Hesse Building, Germany – design by Arup Associates 1 Oct 2008 Frankfurt Data Centre The World’s Most Sustainable Data Centre Opens in Frankfurt, Germany Design: Arup Associates Location: Frankfurt-am-Main Citi, the global financial services company opens its Arup Associates designed … Read more

Monaco development: maritime building extension

Yacht Club De Monaco Development

The Monaco development is set to cover 275,000 square meters (3 million square feet) of housing, retail and tourist facilities, as well as a flagship new public building – details of which have yet to be released