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 design by MIT-ARH architects. The Novi Sad accommodation building is by main pedestrian zone, near 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.
What do you consider as shared resources in the city? Can we maintain and manage the resources of rural regions and fishing villages as we have done so far? How can we ensure accessibility to resources?
Design: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. A pair of landmark supertall towers for the new Yongsan International Business District in Seoul. The buildings, which include residential, “officetel” and retail elements, consist of slender, sharply angled mini-towers cantilevered around a central core. The highly contemporary design aesthetic is informed by aspects of traditional Korean culture.
Conservation architects Donald Insall Associates’ restoration of Grade II listed building for the Horniman Museum and Gardens in London. The building was commissioned in 1894 by Frederick John Horniman as a place to tend his rare plants.
Lithuanian architects’ proposal based on a simple concept: recreate the link that once existed with a spatial structure. The architectural design is “atmospherically reminiscent to a pictorial passage” through the two discontinued mountain peaks.
Paris architects laisné roussel unveils a striking entry pavilion building at the first Biennale d’Architecture of Lyon. This architectural event takes place from June 8th until July 9th at the Sucrière.
Design: Fran Silvestre Arquitectos. After a life in the center of Europe, a couple returns to the Mediterranean. Among their mere desires is the power to enjoy a place where they spent the summer during their childhood.
Architects: Messana O’Rorke. Much-neglected 18th Century homestead in a Columbia County apple orchard, New York, fabricated in huge hand-hewn timbers. The basic frame and form was typical of houses by Dutch settlers.
Design: Javier Aguilar Viyuela. GSA, the global student accommodation leader, announces that it has acquired a Spanish student accommodation portfolio, operating business and brand