Nordea Bank: Ørestad North Office, Copenhagen

Nordea Bank Ørestad North Office, Copenhagen building design

Henning Larsen Architects and a team consisting of Signal Architects and SLA Landscape Architects have won the competition for Nordea Bank’s new office building of 40,000 m2 in Ørestad North, Copenhagen, next to the premises of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation and the Concert Hall – Koncerthuset.

Coach House Washington, D.C.

Coach House in Washington DC

Coachhouse comprises a two-story brick building that was originally constructed as a garage between 1907 and 1911. The owners approached Gardner Architects LLC with the goal of making Coachhouse their home. Their program required one more floor.

Residential Development in Shenzhen, China

Residential Development in Shenzhen China

Designed by Sergio Mannino Studio the project is composed of three apartments, six lobbies and all of the common areas in between. Each apartment was targeted for a different type of family, income, and age group.

New Spaces for Desjardins at Montréal Tower

New Spaces for Desjardins at Montréal Tower

Provencher_Roy is responsible for the architectural work on the Montréal Tower and the interior design of the new Desjardins spaces. The premises, vacant since 1987, are currently being transformed into office space.

Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo

Musashino Art University Museum & Library steps

A library project by Sou Fujimoto Architects for one of the distinguished art universities in Japan: a new library building and refurbishment of the existing building into an art gallery, completed in 2010. The warm wooden interior provides enticing places to linger and read.

Experimentarium Science Center Copenhagen

Experimentarium Science Center Copenhagen interior

The 320.000 sqft project by Danish architects CEBRA is located in an old mineral water bottling plant. The building includes a large new exhibition hall, a rooftop exhibition space, a botanical roof garden, a flexible stage, centres for learning, innovation and research, a conference centre, cafeterias and modern staff facilities.

VIVI Porto Corallo Ideas Competition

Vivi Porto Corallo Ideas Competition

This architecture competition aims to improve the Porto Corallo promenade, stretching from the mouth of the river Flumendosa to the beach of Porto Su Tramatzu, Sardinia. The 1st prize is 10,000 Euros.

Marne-la-Vallée University Library – French Building

Marne-la-Vallée University Library Building

An audacious design by architects Beckmann-N’Thépé for the Marne-la-Vallée university library: it evokes a mound of earth ‘torn from its natural environment,’ in harmony with its surroundings. ‘Between naturalism and terror’ – Aldric Beckmann.

LiYuan Library – Huairou Building, Beijing

LiYuan Library Beijing building

A delightful building by architects Li Xiadong/Atelier for a small village on the outskirts of Beijing: “we found large amounts of locally sourced wooden sticks piled around each house…(for) cooking stoves. Thus we decided to use this ordinary material in an extraordinary way, cladding the building in familiar textures in a way that is strikingly sensitive.”

Taipei 101: Taiwan Skyscraper Building

TAIPEI 101 building Taiwan

Design: C.Y. Lee & Partners, architects. CTBUH 2016 Performance Award: In 2004 Taipei 101 became the tallest building in the world at 449m high with antenna at 509m, thus beating Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Towers.

Sliced Porosity Block: Chengdu Towers

Sliced Porosity Block

Sliced Porosity Block, Chengdu building complex design by Steven Holl for CapitaLand, China, three million sqft project: Steven Holl Building China takes its shape from its distribution of natural light.

YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award News

YTAA Young Talent Architecture Award 2018

Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe announce that YTAA is one of 12 Collateral Events at International Architecture Exhibition titled Freespace, curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara and organized by La Biennale di Venezia.

Intersekt Tile Showroom, New Delhi, India

Intersekt Tile Showroom, New Delhi

A showroom and offices – a dynamic building designed ‘as a museum’ to showcase tiles as beloved possessions, with an unusual fractalised facade design that provides a confusing sense of scale.

Pine Tree in Miami Luxury Home

Pine Tree Residence

A luxurious open plan family home focused on entertaining, with a two-storey waterslide! The hedonistic Miami property by South African architects SAOTA is in the Collin’s Waterfront district