Tortona Design Week 2018, Lombardy

Sony Design "Hidden Senses"

Milano Design Award rewards HIDDEN SENSES project by Sony Design in the category “Best Playfulness”, as part of the project curated by Milano Space Makers, Tortona Rocks in the frame of the Tortona Design Week 2018.

Hawkers Rome Store, Via Belsiana Shop

Hawkers Rome Store

The use of color in a spontaneous, changeable and living way characterizes the space. An explosion of energy is reflected in the mirror baseboards of the walls, in which 3d animations allow the Brand to interact with the client: Hawkers Rome Store by CuldeSac Custom Retail.

Manor House in Franschhoek, Cape Winelands

Manor House in Franschhoek South Africa

Interior of a luxury manor house in Franschhoek in the picturesque Cape Winelands designed by Inhouse with Chris de Hart Architects: the property captures the sweep of a spacious plantation-style country estate, with aesthetic touches inspired by the film Casablanca.

Lushan Primary School in Jiangxi by Zaha Hadid

Lushan Primary School in Jiangxi

Lushan Primary School, was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and will be an educational institute for 120 children located 160km north-west of Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, and serve 12 local villages with a total population of about 1,800 people.

Aura Valle Aurelia Rome Shopping Centre, Roma

Aura Valle Aurelia Rome Shopping Centre

Aura Mall is part of a larger urban redevelopment project for the entire Valle Aurelia district, the aim of which is to reorganize services and enhance the former Fornace Veschi area. Retail project by Design International.

Grand Rapids Art Museum – GRAM Michigan

Grand Rapids Art Museum Michigan GRAM building

The Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan is home to one of the oldest museums in the Mid-West. The new museum is designed through the integration of the arts and technology, that aimed for high-level certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).

The Books House in Mosman, Sydney

The Books House in Mosman

A Calligrapher handed three books to his wife, she placed them in a random stack on the table… “We want The Books House”… they said. Luigi Rosselli Architects designed The Books House.

Estonia at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale

Venice architecture - Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa

Estonia Pavilion at 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale: “Weak Monument” curators Laura Linsi, Roland Reemaa and Tadeáš Říha, explore the spectrum between the explicit representation of the monument and the implicit politics of everyday architecture.

Jin Bo Law Skybar, Dorsett City Aldgate Hotel

Jin Bo Law Skybar, Dorsett City London bar seating

With stunning views of some of London’s most iconic buildings, the Jin Bo Law skybar opens at £36 m Dorsett City London in Aldgate: 14th floor roof extension design by Architects Dexter Moren Associates.

Hangzhou Normal University Yuhang District, China

Hangzhou Normal University

Century-old Hangzhou Normal University builds a new campus, designed by WSP ARCHITECTS, five kilometers west of the Xixi Wetland. The new campus planning consists of more than a dozen independent but fully open colleges, whose architectural style are different, forming a rich puzzle.

StairStalk Staircase for HIDE, 85 Piccadilly

StairStalk HIDE London restaurant stairs

StairStalk is the centrepiece feature staircase for Oliver Dabbous’s new restaurant HIDE, which opened Monday the 16th of April at 85 Piccadilly, in London. Expertly built by Polish craftsmen, it spirals up through three floors.

Venice Biennale Korean Pavilion 2018: KECC

The City of Radical Shift, 2018 © N.E.E.D. Architecture, Sungwoo Kim (N.E.E.D. Architecture)

The Korean Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia will present Spectres of the State Avant-garde, an imagined archive of the Korea Engineering Consultants Corp. (KECC), a technical consultancy for architecture and civil engineering established by the government in 1963.

St Hilda’s College Oxford Design Competition

St Hildas College Oxford Design Competition

Planning approval for scheme by architects Gort Scott for St Hilda’s College, Oxford. The concept design features a slender tower, rooftop gardens with wild-flower planting, and a riverside pavilion. Other finalists in the architecture competition were 6a architects, DRDH Architects, Hall McKnight and Tim Ronalds Architects.

Wiel Arets Architecture: WAA Netherlands

Antwerp Tower

Wiel Arets Architecture, The Netherlands, founded in 1983 and has since expanded to become an internationally renowned name. WAA has its roots in the Limburg region of the Netherlands, and has offices in Amsterdam, Maastricht and Zürich.

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, Denmark

SHL Architects Seven New Partners

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects doubles its partner group with the appointment of seven new partners. The firm announces promotions across two of its three offices, indicating a generational shift for a practice known around the world for its iconic, sustainable cultural and civic architecture.

Banegraven in Aarhus Railway Quarter

Banegraven in Aarhus

In cooperation with the City of Aarhus, DSB, MT Højgaard and C.F. Møller Architects are preparing to realise the vision of a new Railway Quarter. This is a new, car-free urban quarter in Aarhus, which will develop the area and connect the surrounding neighbourhoods.