Al-Birr Foundation Office Tower, Riyadh
Al-Birr Foundation headquarters and office building. An intriciate and symbolic yet practical approach to an office tower that responds to a harsh environmental climate.
45 Park Lane Mayfair, London Dorchester Collection
Paul Davis + Partners, in collaboration with The Office of Thierry W. Despont Ltd., has achieved planning permission from Westminster City Council for the conversion, refurbishment and re-facing of 45 Park Lane for client Dorchester Collections
Exchange Greengate Salford building
Whitelaw Turkington and Arup have been appointed as designers of the public spaces at Exchange Greengate in Central Salford. The 13-hectare, mixed-use development will create a new urban quarter linking the cities of Salford and Manchester, with a stunning public realm at its heart.
Museum of Contemporary Art Wroclaw: MoCA
The project by Holzer Kobler Architekturen for the competition of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Wroclaw is a visionary design consisting of two elements.
Ljubljana Building: Business House Slovenia
Ljubljana Business House: The industrial context of the new business palace with public program implies a simple volume which becomes complex on the inside, animating end engaging the occupants.
Architecture Foundation Discussion: Brutalism
Francis Bacon’s life, from 1909 – 1992, covered an exceptional period of transformation in architecture and art. He worked at a time when continental modernism, in art, architecture and design, was reinvented in a British context.
Arup Associates Unified Design Unit, London
New Unit at Arup Associates Launched at Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy – offers a radical pan-disciplinary approach that focuses on people from the outset, through the united vision of architects, engineers, artists and social scientists
56 Leonard Street Tribeca Skyscraper
At 56 Leonard Street, the architects’ intention is to preserve the celebratory spirit of traditional skyscrapers while introducing new structural possibilities and suggesting fresh ways for people inside such towers to relate to their city.
Tangier Passenger Terminal Morocco Building
The Tanger Med is a passengers harbour, dimensioned for traffic increasing up to 10 million passengers/year by 2020. It is inside a general harbour masterplan for the first harbour of the Mediterranean area, containing equipments and amenities for all categories of passengers and traffic.
VNF Headquarters – Paris Building
VNF Headquarters Paris: Quay des Invalides Building – design by Odile Decq Benoît Cornette, architects – Parisian Architecture Project, France
Archipel Restaurant – Pavilion 8 Lyons
Between the two rivers, Rhone and Saône, the renovation of the docks is starting a new story: the bank for arts. New programs dedicated to the culture, to relax and to walk keeping the link and the imaginary with the industrial history of the site.
Triglavska Ljubljana Residential Building
After winning the first price in an invited competition in 2003, the architects where challenged to create a high quality residential accommodation that would be expressive, joyful and respect the qualities of the location.
Almere Olympiakwartier Masterplan: Buildings
In the larger context of the presentation of the new Almere Port area, Dutch housing association Stadgenoot and the city of Almere presented the MVRDV project for Olympiakwartier, introducing an ambitious new urban density and variety into the fast growing city near Amsterdam.
Wexford Festival Opera House, Ireland, Building
The rebuilding of Wexford Opera House, is one of Ireland’s most important cultural projects of recent times, and has been completed on schedule for the 2008 autumn opera festival.