Architects: KUD. The St. Joseph project is a luxury residential development situated in Abbottsford, Victoria. Due to its historical significance the site has become part of the cultural landscape within the area, demanding a highly responsive and respectful design outcome.
Design: Martin Duplantier Architectes. The 138-hectare park features prestigious sports facilities, a vast forest area and a plateau inhabited by buildings from 1962 and designed by the architect René Coulon.
This year the organisers are keen to see clever and cost effective ‘Retirement Home/Granny Annexe’ solutions – a 40 sq m home that can be built for £40k (or less). Thirty of the homes also have to be configured as an innovative retirement community (with a max budget of £1.5m).
70F architecture and Le Ville di Trevinano will soon start the build of an earth-sheltered boutique resort in one of Italy’s most beautiful areas. Underground building has not only energetic but also aesthetic benefits; the resort is hardly noticeable from the overlying hills.
Architects: UNStudio. An intriguing organic-shaped building with varying scales of hexagonal grid facade patterning. The Dutch architects have developed a consistent hexagon module, but vary it with sub-modules to create a fascinating effect.
The architect, the engineer, the designer, all of them participate to the development and the construction of an upcoming world at their own level. Together, by looking further, beyond preconceived ideas and well-established concepts, these entrepreneurs, these creators, have the power to make up new rules, propose new directions.
Design: Louis Kahn Architect. The Salk Institute for Biological Studies building dates from the 1960s. Salk had sought to make a beautiful campus in order to draw the best researchers in the world
AA Projects Review 2017 – The Architectural Association at 36 Bedford Square, London, UK – annual show of drawings, models and installations produced by students during the academic year.
Architecture at Zero is a zero net energy design competition open to students and professionals worldwide, engaging architecture, engineering, and planning students and professionals in the pursuit of energy efficient design. This year’s competition is a science education facility in Tiburon, California.
Hotel Centar is located across the beginning of the main pedestrian zone in Novi Sad and across of the Serbian National Theatre, as a dominant point in space.
Design: Cartwright Pickard, Architects. Speculative ten-storey, workspace building commissioned by Allied London. The design is specifically aimed at the fast expanding TMT (technology, media and telecommunications), a highly ‘agile’ speculative commercial office, also acting as a community hub.
Design: FaulknerBrowns Architects: proposals for phased £75m mixed-use development scheme includes leisure, entertainment, residential, retail and water sports, plus a new health and wellbeing centre. At the core of the scheme is a new waterside 80 bed signature hotel and public piazza with access for the public to the marina and water sports centre.
Design: REX, Architects. YIBD “Project R6” is located in Yongsan Business District, alongside a series of major new buildings designed by world-famous architects. All units command great views and the building forms a gateway from Hangang-ro.
This council housing estate in Swiss Cottage in the London Borough of Camden was refurbished in 2006-09 by the same firm that oversaw work at Grenfell Tower. It appears that Reynobond ACM panels were also used. The Estate comprises five high-rise tower blocks.
Design: Mecanoo architecten
The first lean hospital building in the Netherlands. An efficient and compact building in which professional healthcare and a personal approach strengthen each other. Clear routing, abundant daylight, and positive distractions contribute to an environment promoting wellbeing.
Following growing demand for ‘certified’ conservation specialists the Chartered Institute of Building launches the CIOB Building Conservation Certification Scheme. With 25% of the UK’s building stock pre-1919 most construction professionals will work on historic buildings at some point during their career.
This new attraction has won an architecture award for the best leisure and hospitality project of the year. The flagship centre, designed by Plymouth firm Form Design, stands at the heart of the world-renowned Jurassic Coast.