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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) unveils a major new exhibition, Mies van der Rohe & James Stirling: Circling the Square (8 March 2017 – 25 June 2017) offering a renewed examination of two iconic architectural schemes proposed for the same site in the City of London.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. Voting has begun in Westminster’s search for the city’s best building of the last decade, recognising the capital’s cutting-edge architecture with a design excellence award.
Designed by Eray/Carbajo, the space creates an unparalleled atmosphere in grooming. With its hexagonal layout, the design provides exclusivity and undivided attention to the guests while they are being served.
Laban is the largest purpose-built contemporary dance centre in the world. The building was designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the Pritzker Prize winning (2001) Swiss architects who also designed the Tate Modern and the National Stadium in Beijing (2008 Olympic Games)
Architects: Buckley Gray Yeoman. Four new buildings on a site bordered by Dace Road, Monier Road and Smeed Road will provide 110 new homes and 6,300 sq m of commercial and light industrial space arranged around a central landscaped courtyard.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. The London Aquatics Centre in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is celebrating its 3rd anniversary of being open to the public with an Open Day full of swimming and fitness activities on Saturday, 4th March.
Brick Awards winner, design by Caruso St John Architects, London. Conversion of a street of listed industrial buildings into a free public gallery for artist Damien Hirst. Winner of Stirling Prize 2016.
Leonard Design reveals how its plans for Croydon’s £1.4billion Westfield and Hammerson shopping centre bring together the old and new, and make significant environmental improvements to help the town’s regeneration.
Brent Cross: London Shopping Centre, NW4 retail centre – Hendon shops include John Lewis, Fenwick and Marks & Spencer: Brent Cross London stores in NW4
Design: Coupdeville Architects. The design is a series of stepped, framed boxes which allows both an interaction of the forms and provides a series of terraces and overhangs. The clerestories between the ground and first floors animate the space and allow daylight to penetrate deeper into the home.
Design: Stanton Williams. The brief was to regenerate the area around the Centre Point tower, Tottenham Court Road Underground and new Crossrail station by creating a new world-class public space in collaboration with Gillespies.
Design: Peter Barber Architects. Beautiful new homeless facility providing high quality residential accommodation, with training and counselling facilities, laid out around a new courtyard garden, winner of an invited architecture competition, shortlisted for Mies van der Rohe 2017 Award.
The Economist Building refurbishment news – “Walking to the entrance of our building, across a rather austere plaza, we sometimes pass groups of architecture students in drab, well-cut clothes and interesting glasses.”
C.F. Møller Architects, artist Conrad Shawcross and developer Knight Dragon have completed a major new art and architecture collaboration for the Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Centre in London.