A New Chapter Position Statement RIAS
A New Chapter’s Position Statement on RIAS reform: aNC is greatly encouraged by recent moves within the RIAS to implement significant reform measures, agreed at this week’s Council meeting.
Chopin International Music Centre Poland
Chopin International Music Centre Competition in Żelazowa Wola – design by ELEMENT – a small village in Poland, well-known as a birthplace of a famous polish compositor and pianist – Fryderyk Chopin. The picturesque scenery of endless forest favors leisure activities and relaxation.
C42 Citreon Paris Car Showroom
The double chevron soon appears proliferating as it rises in free and inventive array right up to the summit. The glass front unfolds a gigantic origami, coloured by diaphanous white and red film
Zhuhai Opera House, Guangdong, China
Zhuhai Opera House, Guangdong, design by architect: Ma Long – located on the shores of the island in Zhuhai, where the surging Pearl River meets the South China Sea and becomes calm.
RIBA Client of the Year 2018: Buildings
RIBA Client of the Year 2018 shortlist: Bloomberg for Bloomberg, London; London Borough of Hackney for Kings Crescent Estate Phases 1 & 2 also Hackney Town Hall; Argent LLP for R7, Gasholders, Victoria Hall King’s Cross, Gasholder Park plus previous RIBA Award-winning projects ; St David’s Hospice Care for St David’s Hospice, New In-Patient Unit, Newport.
Doors Open Days 2018 Scotland: Scottish Buildings
Doors Open Days 2018 Scotland – a free festival celebrating heritage and the built environment, new and old. Every September explore hundreds of fascinating buildings across Scotland. Some open up once a year, some just once in a lifetime.
Carroll House Brooklyn, NY home
Carroll House Brooklyn building design by LOT-EK Architects – a single-family residence located in a typical 25×100-feet Brooklyn corner lot, 21 upcycled shipping containers are stacked and cut diagonally along top and bottom, generating a monolithic and private volume within the urban fabric.
The Modern Village Office, Da Nang Building
The Modern Village Office, Da Nang, design by Ho Khue Architects, shortlisted at World Architecture Festival 2018 Awards: the rooftop is densely planted with plants to cool the lower floors. This floor houses the executive office, meeting room, and large open sided lunch room with a complete kitchen.
Gasholders London King’s Cross Buildings
Gasholders London King’s Cross by architects: WilkinsonEyre with Jonathan Tuckey Design: Argent LLP shortlisted for RIBA Client of the Year 2018 – the industrial heritage of Kings Cross is integral to its regeneration and the triplet of Grade II listed cast-iron gasholders is the most distinct centrepiece.
Ambulatory Care Building, Medicine Hat Hospital
Medicine Hat Regional Hospital Building Expansion design by Gibbs Gage Architects and Diamond Schmitt – expansion and renewal of the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital with a new Ambulatory Care Building.
Glenstone Museum Pavilions, Potomac, Maryland
Glenstone Museum Pavilions, Potomac, design by Thomas Phifer and Partners – an installation surveying the breadth of its internationally renowned collection will be one of the inaugural presentations in its new building, the Pavilions, opening on October 4.
R7 King’s Cross London Workplace Building
R7 King’s Cross by architects: Duggan Morris Architects with Weedon Architects: Argent shortlisted for RIBA Client of the Year 2018 – sitting as the colourful backdrop to the Granary Building in the King’s Cross regeneration programme is R7 – the next generation of workplace.
Kings Crescent Estate Phases 1 and 2, London
Kings Crescent Estate Phases 1 and 2 by architects: Karakusevic Carson Architects and Henley Halebrown: London Borough of Hackney shortlisted for RIBA Client of the Year 2018 – The original Kings Cross Estate had been half demolished in 2000 and the remaining community have lived with the resulting wasteland until now.
D-Day Museum Portsmouth Building, Hampshire
Hampshire County Council Property Services complete transformation of D-Day Museum Portsmouth: the architecture of the original 1980s building is revealed, exposing the large circular exhibition hall, containing the Overlord Embroidery, and enabling this principal form to be legible both inside and out.
St David’s Hospice New In-Patient Unit, Newport
St David’s Hospice, New In-Patient Unit, Newport, design by KKE Architects the 15-bed, in-patient hospice is a development of the original 2013 Day Hospice, itself a shortlisted project. The new building owes much of its special quality to unusually insightful clients.
Forest and Sports Park in Guang Ming, China
Forest and Sports Park in Guang Ming, Shenzhen – LOLA, TALLER and L+CC win international architecture competition for a 600 hectare forest and sports park in southern China. Other competitors were JCFO, SWA and TCL.
Park Hill Phase 3 Sheffield housing
Park Hill Phase 3 Sheffield regeneration continues as Sheffield City Council grants permission for redevelopment by specialist student accommodation developer Alumno.