Doncaster Civic Offices: Waterdale Building
Doncasterʼs new civic offices will be located in the heart of the CCQ and become central to plans to transform the Waterdale area of town – building design by Cartwright Pickard Architects
Doncaster Racehorse Facility: Bloodstock Sales
A £7m million state-of-the-art thoroughbred racehorse facility was opened this week by England footballer Michael Owen. The facility is owned by Doncaster Bloodstock Sales (DBS), auctioneers of some of the world’s top racehorses including 12 Grand National winners.
Scottish Home Awards: Housing Prize Scotland
The best of Scotland’s housebuilding industry celebrated last night at the annual Scottish Home Awards, sponsored by the Dunfermline Building Society.
Zonnebeke Library, Belgium: Flanders’ Fields
Belgian architect Wim Supply realized an integration project in Zonnebeke, a village in Flanders’ Fields, the battlefields of the Great War. In the Chateau Park, where you find the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, he built a cortensteel building to house the youth library of Zonnebeke.
Sheikh Zayad Bridge Abu Dhabi, Zaha Hadid
There is a highly mobile society, which requires a new route around the Gulf south shore, connecting the three Emirates together. In 1967 a steel arch bridge was built to connect the fledgling city of Abu Dhabi island to the mainland.
Herron Associates Architects, London practice
Herron Associates Architects London, UK – architecture practice designer of Imagination building. British design office photos, England
New Town Tower, London skyscraper building design
It is estimated that London will need to provide housing for almost 100 000 people every year up to 2016¹. This is the result not only of migration (internal and global) but also the need to replace existing housing stock that is reaching the end of its lifecycle.
Oxford Academy: Peers School Littlemore
HKR Architects appointed advisors to Oxfordshire County Council (through the project managers Hewitt Freeborn) on the feasibility and possible layouts for a new Academy in Oxford.
Bijlmer ArenA Station Amsterdam building
The Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA Station is situated on the southeast of the city on the line that links Amsterdam with Utrecht. To the west there is a commercial development area punctuated by the newly built Amsterdam Arena, a 50,000 seat football stadium
Cagliari Masterplan, Saint’Elia buildings, Sardinia: OMA
Dutch architect studio Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) presents its concept masterplan of Saint’Elia, a fishing port in south Cagliari, capital of the Italian island of Sardinia. The Dutch architect firm’s masterplan aims to address the complex social and environmental issues in the neglected area of the Med.
Mull Theatre, Tobermory building: Aros Park
As justification of the Inner Hebridean Island of Mull’s growing presence on the UK cultural map, Mull Theatre’s new Production Centre is the first phase in the company’s plans for a Creative Campus on the island, designed by the City Architecture Office (CiAO).
Helensburgh Pier Competition: RIAS Contest
A Neopolitan of timber clad pier, landscaped recreation and shielded car parking, a ‘Garden of Eden’, a Royal Festival Hall on Helensburgh Pier, a celebration of the water’s edge.
City of Salford Stadium – Red City Project
AJ Bell Stadium is a rugby stadium in Barton-upon-Irwell, Salford, England. It was built to replace Salford rugby league club’s ground at The Willows for the start of the 2012 season.
Bahrain WTC Wind Turbines building, World Trade Center
The Atkins designed Bahrain World Trade Center (BWTC) made history today as the turbines on this pioneering project turned together for the first time.
The two 50-storey sail shaped office towers taper to a height of 240m and support three 29m diameter horizontal-axis wind turbines. The towers are integrated on top of a three-story podium and basement which accommodate a new shopping center, restaurants, business centers and car parking.