WAFVirtual: World Architecture Festival 2020

WAFVirtual December 2020

World Architecture Festival goes virtual in December, returning as live event in June 2021: WAFVirtual takes place 30 November – 4 December 2020, the worldwide architectural community can engage in a week of activity

Supermax Global Headquarters, Klang

Supermax Global Headquarters, Klang, Malaysia building

Supermax Global Headquarters in Klang building design by Szczepaniak Astridge, Architects: international competition to build the new hq for one of the largest suppliers of medical gloves and PPE in the world.

Tumble Creek Cabin, Suncadia Resort

Tumble Creek Cabin, Suncadia Resort

Tumble Creek Cabin in Suncadia Resort by Coates Design Architects: vacation home in Cascade Mountains, WA, USA – house blends sustainable modern architecture with reclaimed rustic materials

Balnarring Beach House, Victoria

Balnarring Beach House, Victoria

Balnarring Beach House is constructed as a series of sheltered north-facing courtyards with large bi-folding glass doors to connect or divide indoor & outdoors: creating sunny, wind protected living

Populos Headquarters São Paulo

Populos Headquarters São Paulo

One of the client’s main ideas for the Populos HQ, in SP, project was to use the outdoor area, designed by Superlimão, to accommodate different work and downtime purposes.

Affordable houses for Grampian Housing

Affordable houses for Grampian Housing Association

Architecture students from Robert Gordon University’s Scott Sutherland School of Architecture design small affordable houses for Grampian Housing Association in Northeast Scotland

Chinese Architectural News: Buildings

Yabuli Entrepreneurs Congress Center China

Chinese architectural news, key contemporary architecture designs in China from Winter to Summer 2020 – major new property: Eastern Asia construction images and information

Cox Architects Australia office

St Thomas More College in Perth

Cox Architecture news – Masons Retail Interior, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ; Cox Howlett & Bailey Woodland commissioned to provide full architectural services for the new (NRAS) Student Accommodation facilities at St Thomas More College. The redevelopment represents a wholesale repositioning of the college architecturally as well as operationally.

6 UNESCO Cultural sites virtually rebuilt

Nan Madol, Temwen Island, Micronesia

Reconstructing 6 UNESCO cultural sites in danger of disappearing forever: World heritage sites exist in constant danger of degradation or destruction, from militants to motorists, earthquakes to urbanization.

Cundall Birmingham Office Building

Cundall Birmingham Office Building staircase

Cundall’s Birmingham office achieves Well Building Standard® Gold Certification from IWBI, making it the second in the Midlands and the first in the city centre to achieve this prestigious accreditation.

Central Place Sydney Development

Central Place Sydney towers SOM

SOM & Fender Katsalidis win an international design competition for Central Place Sydney buildings, a $2.5 billion commercial development in Sydney’s Central Business District.

The Independent, Austin, Texas building

The Independent, Austin, Texas

The Independent Building in Austin, Texas design by Rhode Partners: 363-unit, 1,002,000 square feet residential high-rise owes its character to a restricted site and varied program.

Headquarters of Métropole Rouen Normandie

Headquarters Metropole Rouen Normandie

The headquarters of Métropole Rouen Normandie designed by Jacques Ferrier Architecture forms a vivid landmark on the River Seine: building silhouette echoes adjacent renovated industrial buildings