RIBA Northern Ireland Awards 2017
Six buildings shortlisted for RIBA Northern Ireland Awards 2017. The jury is formed from architects Alastair Hall (Hall McKnight), Kieran McGonigle (McGonigle McGrath) and artist Colin Davidson.
National Rowing Stadium in Bagsvaerd
Design: AART architects
Denmark’s Rowing Stadium at Bagsværd Lake fulfils the vision of creating a rowing stadium in an international league of its own. Beautifully situated with water and forest on all sides, it is a place that accommodates both the elite and the broader public.
Danish Design Award, Architecture News
Danish Design Award winners news – the game-changing Open Embassy, the aesthetic-functional walking frame Scandinavian Indoor, the expansive car-sharing concept GoMore and the partnership-building VenligBolig, which promotes the integration of refugee families.
Zarid House on the beach of Cabo de Plata
Design: Fran Silvestre Arquitectos. To optimize the vision of the landscape, a series of slender spaces are intertwined as they adapt to the descending topography. Each of these pieces is deposited half a floor below the previous one. This way, its alternating arrangement allows all the spaces to have a direct view over the beach.
Moscow Urban Landscaping & Design Competition
The Open International Urban Landscaping and Design Competition is a part of the “Moscow.Flowers.Sweets” Festival. Participants are offered to suggest solutions for landscape and floral compositions to improve Moscow urban spaces in the city centre and its outskirts.
Culardoch Shieling in the Cairngorms National Park
Design: Moxon Architects. Culardoch Shieling, a mountain hut in Cairngorms National Park in the Scottish Highlands, has been completed by Moxon Architects. Located at the foot of Culardoch, the remote new shieling (Scottish Gaelic term for hut) looks out across the expanse of the scenic upper Glen Gairn.
Khyaung School in Cambodia Building
Architects: Weston Williamson + Partners
WW+P worked with Engenuiti, Integration and Building Trust International to design a building which was flexible and adaptable to meet current and future needs. It comprises three additional classrooms, a library and a covered external classroom with a sunken play area, which doubles as a small amphitheatre.
Heydar Aliyev Centre Baku Building, Zaha Hadid
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects featured in today’s Google Doodle – the design of this intriguing building is a departure from the rigid and often monumental architecture of the former Soviet Union that is so prevalent in Baku. Instead, the building aspires to express the sensibilities and diversity of Azeri culture.
Courtyard House on a River in Greenwater, WA
Design: Robert Hutchison Architecture. This small residence located on the banks of the White River five miles from Mt. Rainier quietly blends into the surrounding forest. An entry courtyard serves as a transition space from outdoors to indoors, and keeps the ubiquitous elk herds at bay.
T1 North Lobby in Sydney
Architect : Rogers, Stirk, Harbour, and Partners. Working on top of ARUP’s structural steel frame, AR-MA worked with ARC Roofing to design, fabricate, assemble, and install, the roof modules, finished with flat-lock zinc panel, within exceptionally tight tolerances.
House of Correction in Melbourne, Swanston St
Design: ZWEI Interiors Architecture. Working within the context of an existing CBD building, the design strips back the built layers and exposes the site’s history and amplifies this to create narrative and connection within the interior space.
Race Studio Singapore Design
Architects: Ministry of Design. MOD was commissioned to design the branding and spatial experience for RACE, a new robotic facility aimed at educating, and introducing robots into automating existing manufacturing industries.
The Oculus at the University of Warwick building
Architects Berman Guedes Stretton create a new visual focal point for the University of Warwick. A new state-of-the-art teaching centre named The Oculus features an impressive 18m tall glazed frontage to University Road beneath a striking curved laminated timber roof
Kanakpura School Building Bengaluru, Karnataka
Design: The Purple Ink Studio, architects. The programmatic values of the school believe in breaking away from the standard scholastic teaching system. The design embraces the creative enterprise of ‘flexible learning’ to cater to the needs of a heterogeneous group of learners.
Fish Island Development in Hackney Homes
Architects pH+ and City & Suburban Homes have received unanimous planning permission to build a new mixed-use development in the heart of Hackney’s Fish Island.
Battersea Power Station Designs, Nine Elms
Third Phase Designs Construction Manager news. The designs by Gehry Partners and Foster + Partners for £8bn redevelopment third phase of the iconic building will deliver a cluster of ‘wavy and wonky’ buildings for over 1,300 homes plus a high street of shops and a hotel. Sir Robert McAlpine appointed.
Jeanne D’Arc Residence in Chertsey, Matawinie
Architects: Caravan of Architecture
The abundant brightness of this contemporary-inspired home creates an effect of infinite grandeur and space. Located at the foot of a majestic fall and bordered by the river Jean-Venne, the residence breathes well-being and offers a unique concept of relaxation.