Professor Nic Clear’s underground city for three million people is on display at Royal Academy of Arts 250th Summer Exhibition. The model ‘Chthonopolis’ is his vision of the future – an underground city for three million people, whose homes are built by droids from modified salt and their diet is based on insect protein.
Stephen Lawrence Prize 2018 Shortlist news – 7 projects shortlisted, including woodland classrooms for a school, a touching memorial to 173 people who died in Bethnal Green Tube station during the war and a hostel for vulnerable homeless women.
Bedford Park House, uptown Toronto home design Mehdi Marzyari Architects – an infill single family dwelling, the design objective is to create a new house with maximized liveable space and natural light within the tight and narrow site for an emerging developer.
Lycée Français Maternelle, Barcelona School building design by b720 Fermín Vázquez Architects – providing dialogue with the historical school formed from additions of temporary buildings over many years around two early twentieth century villas.
Life After Uni: Best Places To Live In London: So you’ve just graduated and you’re on the property hunt in the big wide world.
Field Office Architecture’s client had been living in the inner suburbs of Melbourne for many years before deciding on a bit of ‘country change’. Keen on a slower pace of life, they’d been looking for a site for some time that was surrounded by nature.
Conceived first hand, by Blanchard Fuentes Design+Build, as a block in which to sculpt, the project was coursed as a subtractive endeavor initially – followed by an additive process to restore balance.
Designed by BSPN Architecture The Centenary Library at Churchie is the most significant project undertaken in the school’s 105-year history. The library activates the heritage-listed portion of the site by creating a space for the future.
Binet Business Hotel Paris building design by AZC Atelier Zündel Cristea, Architects – initiated and managed by RIVP, the construction responds to a need of small and medium space with affordable rent.
Innovation Centre at Red River College Exchange District Campus in Winnipeg, design by Diamond Schmitt Architects with Number TEN Architectural Group, construction start on $95m transformative building positioning architectural innovation to inspire.
London Bridge Public Realm Competition Winner – Charles Holland Architects win design competition to improve wayfinding and the public realm outside London Bridge station, a focus of LFA 2018 the contest aims to form a legacy.
Archasm Wilderness Pavilion Kenya Competition, East African design contest – “When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard” – with technological advancement, mankind becomes more apathetic about the natural ecosystem that it was once an indispensable part of.
Johnson Favaro completes Phase I of redevelopment at CEE – Center for Early Education West Hollywood and breaks ground on Phase II, 70,000 sqft in two new buildings replacing two existing ones, plus campus expansion, new subterranean garage, rooftop playgrounds and a play field.
Office Environmental Design of Shiyue Media in Beijing by CUN Design for Post-90s Generation behind “Mi Meng” – the designers have won gold awards globally because of unique thinking in the creative office environment design.
The uniquely-shaped Gherkin, completed in 2003, cleared the way for a new generation of tall buildings in London and beyond. Ten years on, the tapering form and diagonal bracing structure of 30 St Marys Axe afford numerous benefits
REBEL A10-Kop Zuidas Amsterdam, a bold, flexible and sustainable design, a smart framework enables spatial flexibility for a mixed-use building by Synchroon, Studioninedots, DELVA Landscape Architects, Skonk, Techniplan and Eigen Haard.
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Chicago Building design: HDR | Gensler in Association with Clive Wilkinson Architects – color climbs to a crescendo as all pathways focus on the collaborative zone of the ability labs.