Goodlife! Makan Singapore cooking, dining
Design: DP Architects. Goodlife! Makan, a recreational cooking, dining and activity centre for stay-alone seniors at the converted void deck of 52 Marine Terrace in Singapore.
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Bolton Dining Commons University of Georgia
Design: Bruner/Cott Architects and Planners – Bolton Commons serves as a campus hub, with 1,100 seats plus a convertible, 200-seat private event space. Over a dozen serveries and food prep stations are sited on two floors
Shalom Institute Dining Hall in Malibu Hills
Design: Lehrer Architects – The greenest act of all: Take dank, old throwaway building set in a precious sensitive riparian, environment- apply a tiny budget, save it, let nature-air, view, space, and light-in and make it the campus center.
Roots and Shoots Environmental Learning Centre
Design: Hudson Architects.Roots and Shoots provides vocational training in horticulture, floristry and retail, together with functional and life skills, to disadvantaged young people with additional needs. The new building will increase the charity’s capacity for helping young people.
St Mary Redcliffe Competition Winner, Bristol
Purcell beat Carmody Groarke, dRMM, Eric Parry Architects and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios in this architecture competition: they “demonstrated the deepest understanding of the site and context” with a “crisp, integrated and compelling” design.
Trianglemnant Civic Center in Ryde
Design: The Evolved Architectural Eclectic Limited. The architecture develops a triangular-shaped site containing two civic buildings – built in 1964 and 1970. A central open atrium provides indirect sun light and natural ventilation which saves energy costs.
St Mary Redcliffe Competition Shortlist, Bristol
Images of designs by the five finalist teams selected to develop concept designs in the second stage of this architecture competition: Carmody Groarke, dRMM, Eric Parry Architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Purcell.
Rhythm of Light Public Service Center Taipei City
Design: Cai-In Interior Design Co., architects. The building integrates natural elements into a workable composition. The fish-scale-like exterior design is composed of the repeating and overlapping blocks: sunshine sifts through those gaps among the ‘scales’.
CS Tegucigalpa, Honduras Social Club Building
CCS Tegucigalpa Honduras: more than a defined project, this is a scalable and reconfigurable system by Pascal Arquitectos, which is based on a triangular module which generates specific geometry that defines space, forms and a four by four feet grid that allows an efficient and effective use of prefabricated materials.
Home of Revolution in Nikšić, Montenegro
Design: SADAR + VUGA and HHF Architekten. It was decided that the main intervention should be one that would serve the city and its residents, a social activator that would represent today’s changing conditions.
St Mary Redcliffe Competition Bristol
This is a two-stage design competition; at the first stage, expressions of interest are sought; at the second, designers will be asked to respond to the church’s vision for an integrated scheme, incorporating a range of facilities within a building or buildings.
Kofinas Information Centre in Tzur Moshe, Israel
Design: Ron Shenkin Studio
A welcoming room at the entrance display different historical items, images and videos from Tzur Moshe’s settlement period, and more current community information.
The Wave Open Air Community Theatre
Sitio Eriazo is a collective whose members are theatre school graduates who recover empty, abandoned, urban spaces in the city of Valparaiso, Chile, declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2003, and put them to community use.
Architecture of Necessity Competition 2015
The Architecture of Necessity is an international triennial for sustainable community building. Entries can be buildings or city and community planning projects of all sizes.