Tianjin has north China’s leading port. The population of the area surrounding this port complex, the Tianjin Economic Development Area (TEDA), is expected to increase by at least 200,000 people over the coming decade.
The articulation of the building mass into three volumes takes place within the context of the small-scale, “fine-grained” housing structure in the neighbourhood near and far. In contrast to the solitary houses and villas on the Zurichberg, the building volumes react to each other by means of their proportions and with respect to their openings.
Halmstad Library building design by schmidt hammer lassen architects is set within a parkland setting overlooking the River Nissan and the town’s historic centre.
BCO Awards 2007 winners, London, England, UK – President’s Award by Paul Morrell, Best of the Best: ISG Headquarters, Aldgate House, London, architecture, architects
The brief Scottish Natural Heritage required new headquarters to accommodate their relocation to Inverness as part of Scottish Executive decentralisation strategy. The challenge was to design and build a building that could economically meet their highly sustainability-oriented brief.
Keppie Design received the BRE Office Building of the Year award for the new £13m Scottish Natural Heritage Headquarters in Inverness: the building achieved a BREEAM score of 84%, confirmed by BRE as the highest score ever achieved by any building in the UK since the system was introduced in 1998.
Redbrook Hayes Primary School in Rugeley, Staffs, is a carefully considered response to the government’s Exemplar Schools Project. Designed by Walters and Cohen, an architectural practice with an outstanding record in delivering well-designed schools across the UK
The Test Of Time will be accessible and engaging and should appeal to anyone interested in their own home, housing design and the history of modern housing.
British Rail Architecture & Design Group, architects, UK – BR raiway station architecture, London buildings, England transport property designs
Langlands & Bell: architecture by London artists Ben and Nikki, England – urban culture art – innovative new media projects: architecture info + images of key works
Interiors Forum Scotland: there is huge gap between how Interior Designers see themselves and how the public see them.
The commission for the new Foreign and Commonwealth Office facility at Hanslope Park allowed GMW to bring together ideas for sustainability, space planning and new ways of working.
Culture Minister Patricia Ferguson will tomorrow outline the Scottish Executive’s aspirations for the future of the country’s architecture. Ms Ferguson will make her statement as she launches the Executive’s revised architecture policy, at The Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture and Design.
Prince Charles threatened to resign as president of the National Trust unless it altered the design of its headquarters, it has been claimed by The Guardian newspaper on 17 Aug 2009.