The innovative new Centralised Science Laboratories building at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, designed by RMJM, has won the 2006 Hong Kong Institute of Architects Merit Award for Community Building.
National Trust for Scotland Glencoe Visitor Centre: a pleasant building, subtle in its siting amongst this small patch of woodland at the west end of the famous Glecoe valley, Argyll. This Scottish architecture practice lost its leader in 2012.
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Will Alsop the internationally renowned architect, artist and lecturer, responsible for the provocative OCAD table top building will be unleashing his equally expressive contemporary paintings in his first North American Art Exhibit entitled Cultural Fog at the Olga Korper gallery.
Sheffield Hallam University’s new Furnival Building, designed by Bond Bryan Architects, will boast some of the most sustainable and energy-saving features anywhere in the city.
The Hong Kong headquarters of HSBC, the world’s 4th largest bank by assets, recently launched an innovative new glass and steel lobby designed by one of Hong Kong’s newest design firms that is just over two years old.
Uig property, new Isle of Skye House design by Dualchas architects: a challenge to design a two storey modern building on an elevated site in Uig, Skye, which could exploit the views, yet be unobtrusive.
Omniyat Properties and Zaha Hadid Architects revealed the Opus, a mixed-use commercial and retail development located in the Business Bay district of Dubai.
The Opus project combines art and performance with form and functionality. The building is another example of the continued economic growth in Dubai and the growing opportunities for overseas investment.
Planning restrictions on height meant that this four-bedroom guest house, in Harrapool on the Isle of Skye, had to be kept relatively low, so as not to block neighbours’ views.
The existing Coll byre was converted and improved for holiday lettings. Part of a phase development, this conversion forms one side of a proposed courtyard of holiday-let buildings.
Erick van Egeraat has started construction of Business Park and Leisure Centre for the Milanofiori North mixed-use development area. The project developed by Brioschi Sviluppo Immobiliare spa is one of the biggest developments in Europe.
Argyll & Bute Council produced a strategic plan for the Kintyre Peninsula which identified the need to regenerate the Campbeltown Town Centre and to attract people to the area, in particular professionals such as doctors and nurses.
City Design Co-operative Ltd. is happy to announce that ‘Dysart Artworks’ has won this year’s Scottish Design Awards in the category Landscape Architecture.