250 Wynwood in Miami condominium

250 Wynwood

250 Wynwood, by NYC-based architectural design firm, DFA, is an artist’s canvas. The project exquisitely links the contemporary 11-unit condominium to its creative Miami neighborhood.

Drill Core Reference Library in Adelaide

Drill Core Reference Library

Design: Thomson Rossi Architects: this building will hold 7.5 million metres of drill core samples collected over 130 years of exploration from across South Australia. It can display up to 2km of cores on a series of automated conveyor belts in the main viewing area.

Beton-Balkone Frankfurt am Main

Beton-Balkone Frankfurt am Main

Beton-Balkone / Concrete Balconies: these monolithic balconies perfectly complement the scale and massing of this late nineteenth century apartment block.

Adaptive Skins: Responsive Building Facades

Adaptive Architecture. This is a novel project where a material system is developed at an architectural scale, which has not been explored much in the past, in the domain of adaptive architecture.

Richard Deacon’s Cornice London St James’s

Richard Deacon’s Cornice London Piccadilly St James's

Renowned artist Richard Deacon – a past Turner Prize winner – has created a dramatic sculptural cornice for St James’s Gateway, The Crown Estate’s first redevelopment in its 10-year plan to transform St James’s.

Rainscreen Facades, Corian exterior solid surfaces

Brørup Sparekasse Bank in Denmark by schmidt hammer lassen architects

New RIBA approved CPD seminar on the innovative use of solid surfaces for beautiful and sustainable rainscreen facades, launching at the Surface Design Show, Business Design Centre, Islington, London, UK

Tianjin Binhai Library building façade

Tianjin Binhai Library building façade

Proposal for redefining the appearance of the Tianjin Binhai library, an existing four-story building situated on the bank of a river. The building is the centre for this new development area, and the landmark for the waterfront walk.

Middle East glass facades: building facade glazing

Middle East glass facades: building facade glazing construction

Particularly in the last few decades, Architectural language has given more importance to the ‘transparency’ and ‘lightness’ of building spaces – driving the world towards a flattering glazed built environment.

Copper Canopy Oss, Dutch building design

Copper canopy. Above the front door of a house with straw roof a copper canopy was designed. The canopy uses the same curvature as its larger brother, the straw roof.

Building Reskinning Competition: architecture contest

The purpose is to advance the state-of-the-art in building retrofitting technologies. The task of re-skinning existing infrastructure to increase energy efficiency and reduce environmental impact is a timely and urgent challenge. The Z-Prize: The winning 5 entries will be monitored for a period of 3 years after completion of the retrofit.