Key winners news – Grand Prix: ORIAM – Scotland’s Performance Centre by Reiach and Hall Architects ; Chairman’s Award: the humble Culardoch Shieling by Moxon Architects ; Practice of the Year: Reiach and Hall Architects
The Ministry of Public Works of UAE has invited selected consultants for Ras Al Khaimah Islamic Center Architectural competition. Ras Al Khaimah is considered the state Mosque of the Emirates.
Design: Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes. Located in the Quartier des Spectacles, the first phase of this major real estate development, whose completion is planned for 2019, will house 159 condominiums distributed over 21 floors.
Design: Steven Christensen Architecture. This design seeks to preserve the natural character of the canyon and avoid the ‘cherry on top of the sundae’ site strategy dictated by the plat. Oriented on the back side of the knoll, and humble in scale by neighborhood standards.
An impressive house design by Chris Dyson Architects in the heart of Clerkenwell, East London, is the winner of a prestigious RIBA London Award. It is an industrial building constructed in the early 1900s.
Design: Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture. Located in a former industrial building, JPDA developed a series of dramatic architectural interventions that transform the exterior and create bright, airy and playful dance studios, offices, a library, and dressing rooms for the bustling families that arrive each day.
London Metropolitan University appoints landscape architecture practice Gustafson Porter + Bowman to design a new public square at its Holloway campus, giving a heightened sense of place.
Photos from the INDEX Design Series 2017, UAE interior architecture show and architectural awards event. This year’s event focused on design for the Senses.
The Peckham Toymaker, an installation on the forecourt of Goldsmith’s University and online audio tour, plus live events, will allow visitors to discover the legend of The Peckham Toymaker, and his dark and exotic tale of loss and playfulness.
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2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture winner – DeFlat Kleiburg in Amsterdam by NL architects and XVW architectuur for client Kondor WesselsVastgoed.
Curated by Norman Foster
Exploring the creativity of Cartier and its links with the history of flight and design in the early twentieth century, Cartier in Motion, an exhibition curated by Norman Foster, marks the opening year of the new Design Museum in London.
Design: SOM / Pace. A unique shading system is implemented to overcome extreme heat, the design of which achieves this goal whilst ensuring each building retains an original and culturally appropriate identity.
Architects: HEIM Design. The Chongqing delegation to the National People’s Congress suggested that the city of Chongqing be the start of the Silk Road economic belt and the hub of a 21st century maritime Silk Road, connecting the Chinese interior with the rest of the world.
Design: Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Architects. An unorthodox new building for the Rockwell Group, inspired by Cedric Price’s Fun Palace. The project received a $75m gift from Michael Bloomberg. The six storey 18,500 sqm cultural centre will be encased in a 34m-high outer shell that can slide on rails to double the ground space.
From the need to serve multiple functions, the Pastoral Center of Moscavide building design by Plano Humano Arquitectos is composed by a set of facilities that include catechesis rooms, funeral chapels, and the parish residence, and these needs.
As part of Australia’s largest annual light festival, The Buchan Group has created, re/FRACTION – an installation that shoots glittering, refracted light across Martin Place’s landmark Lloyd Rees water fountain during Sydney’s 2017 Vivid festival.