London Festival of Architecture news – the show is over but many events continue. This architectural festival showcases London as a city rich in memories drawn from all over the world. Events include Wolfgang Weileder: Laban Transferred and The Cass Summer Show.
Storefront for Art and Architecture, in partnership with the Hong-Kong based DESIGN TRUST (an initiative of the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design) presents Storefront International Series: Hong Kong (Storefront IS Hong Kong), a three-day series of events that discuss contested issues in contested sites across the city.
Snøhetta architects – Norwegian architecture studio news, pictures & projects – Snøhetta architects Norway, Oslo architecture practice
Employees have no assigned desks. “Ponies”, as Fast Horse worker are known, are encouraged not to occupy the same seat two days in a row and are encouraged to extend their “work space” beyond the office to the coffee shop, bar, or home.
Design: BloomDesign
Marier in Japanese transelates to intimacy or an intimate connection between people. MarierWagashi locates its first heritage shop in Shangmeilin, Shenzhen, more precisely.
On Canada’s 150th Birthday, the National Arts Centre inaugurates a new building wing. Diamond Schmitt Architects has designed a new wing which switches the entrance to face the city. The NAC now connects directly to Confederation Square and Ottawa’s Parliamentary Precinct.
Architects: X+Living
Zhongshuge, labeled as valuing culture, comes to Chengdu -a city full of cultural charm. The project is located in Yintai Center in Chengdu Tianfu Avenue. Taking the mall escalator to the 4F, we can see the familiar Zhongshuge label – text curtain wall at first glance.
Architects: Wei Yi International Design Associates. This apartment design has a strong focus on colour. A blue color denotes ‘quiet elegance and deep sensibility’ to correlate with the owner’s ‘state of contentment’. The architecture also uses grey materials and unbright colours to provide a highly restrained style.
Design: Diebel and Company | Architects. Windows, doors and clerestories in the living areas of this Silicon Valley house allow natural light to get deep into the interiors of the home. The internal spaces of the property focus on the exterior yard, and tranquil landscape.
Design: Stefano Boeri Architetti. Opening news for new pavilion building: the first of four projects to allow people living in Norcia to use temporary collective spaces, while expecting the reconstruction of their public buildings damaged by the October 30th 2016 earthquake.
Design: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects. A gateway building at the entry from the 101 Freeway. Each occupant can operate louvers on the building façade, constantly changing the aesthetic of the architecture. Apartments are based on loft property design.
Design: COBE architects. As the centrepiece of Copenhagen’s redeveloped Nordhavn (North Harbour), Danish architects COBE and clients Klaus Kastbjerg and NRE Denmark unveil the completed transformation of The Silo
Design: Diamond Schmitt Architects. The largest urban development project in Canada broke ground on a central feature: a tower building at SmartCentres Place. It follows the KPMG Tower also by this architects office. The Class-A office space is due to open in 2020.
Design: Krueck + Sexton Architects with Gensler. This 375,000-sqft, highly sustainable Federal Office Building occupied by the FBI is in Miramar, Broward County, Florida. Campus buildings respond to the local climate, natural environment, and agency needs.
Eight events show how this chapel truly is an iconic New York City building by architect Thomas McBean. St. Paul’s Chapel celebrated its 250th anniversary last year. The chapel in lower Manhattan was once the tallest building in New York City.
Aric Chen, Lead Curator for Design and Architecture at M+, named winner in the Design Curator and Design Critic category of the newly-inaugurated Design Prize, an annual awards programme that recognises excellence in design on a global scale.
Students had to move from buildings at Nottingham Trent University after similar cladding to the Grenfell Tower was discovered. Three of seven blocks at Byron House student accommodation reportedly use Reynobond ACM PE panels for building cladding.