FIABCI World Congress, Luxembourg

FIABCI World Congress 1

FIABCI, the International Real Estate Federation, has completed its 65th World Congress in Luxembourg from May 17-22, 2014. This was FIABCI’s 65th World Congress, which annually attracts global real estate industry leaders. This year’s event included over 1,000 attendees who participated in opportunities to network, build business, share experiences, advance industry knowledge and stimulate conversations.

Live Work Play – Hampshire Exhibition

Live Work Play Exhibition 2

Organiser: RIBA Hampshire

On 14 June at the Winchester Discovery Centre, Live Work Play – an exciting new exhibition of architecture and landscape design projects by Hampshire architects – will open to the public.
Live Work Play showcases a range of thoughtful, robust, elegant and ingenious designs – just under 100 projects in total from within the county, and further afield in the UK and beyond.

Scottish Design Awards 2014

Scottish Design Awards Event 2014 5

Sponsored by e-architect. The annual event which celebrates the best in Scottish architecture and design. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service were honoured at the Scottish Design Awards

VIVA Best-of-the-Best Sustainability Award

VIVA Best-of-the-Best Sustainability Award 2

Hysan Place Wins ICSC Global Sustainability Award

Benoy is honoured to announce that Hysan Place has won the 2014 VIVA (Vision-Innovation-Value-Achievement) Best-of-the-Best Sustainable Design and Development Award. The Hong Kong development was one of five winners announced by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC).

Triumph Pavilion 2014 Exhibition, London

Dream Pavilion London 1

Design: IPT Architects, Sponsor: ArchTriumph, Dream Pavilion is a self-supporting structure measuring 4m in height and approximately 59 m² in area, constructed primarily out of OSB sheet, timber and untreated mild steel. It is the design of a London based architecture practice

Bear Rescue Centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Bear Rescue Centre in Phnom Penh

Design: Atelier COLE

Bear Rescue Centre, Cambodia: international design + build workshop creates sustainable natural building for conservation group in Cambodia.
A hands-on participatory workshop organised by Building Trust International educates both Cambodians, local NGO workers and international volunteers on sustainable building techniques, working with natural materials and promoting the importance of quality in good design.

Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative 2014 News

Peter Zumthor, mentor and Gloria Cabral

Seven emerging artists to be paired with renowned mentors through Rolex Arts Initiative. The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative today announced the seven talented young artists from all over the world who will each benefit from a life-changing, year-long collaboration with one of the world’s greatest artists.

LEAF Forum – Award Germany 2014

LEAF Awards 2014

LEAF INTERNATIONAL is an exclusive forum for architects, developers, contractors, engineers and supplier partners. It is the only high level, one to one business development platform for leading specifiers and suppliers to discuss future building projects.

Sir Michael Hopkins Nottingham University Talk

Sir Micheal Hopkins

National architecture figure to speak at university

One of Britain’s leading architects will visit Nottingham Trent University when it hosts a gala awards ceremony for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) East Midlands.

Sir Michael Hopkins CBE – who was knighted for services to architecture – will along with his wife, Lady Patty, be guest of honour at the event on 15 May.

CANactions Idea Competition + Workshop

CANactions Idea Competition

CANactions Idea Competition + Workshop in Kiev, Ukraine. Maidan, among other things, has brought Ukrainians to the understanding that every city is being built by its citizens. We are the masters of our own destiny. Today’s events in Ukraine make us ponder on our history, public attitude, values, freedom, responsibility for our decisions, our lives and our surrounding.
With this competition, we venture to convert maximum energy generated by revolutionary wave to Urban Ideas.

GIS Warsaw 2014, Expo Conference in Poland

Nini Andrade Silva

International Interior Architecture, Design, Lighting & Furniture Expo Conference. GIS Architecture Expo Conference will take place in Warsaw and bring together over 350 architects, designers and lighting designers, alongside the laureates of the latest editions of international architecture and design competitions.

LEAF Awards 2014 Event winners

LEAF Awards 2014, Munich

LEAF Awards, 2014, Munich, Germany – winners + shortlist from 2013: winning architects + buildings – event, designs, venue, dinner, forum news

YArch Workshop – Cyprus Architecture Event

YAarch Workshop 2014

Supported by: Cyprus Architects Association

We are contacting you regarding our architectural workshop called YArch-Workshop in order to give you further information on the competition we proclaimed and on YArch Workshop in general. YArch Wroskhop offers two main services. First service is divided in our architectural competition followed by our workshop and the second service is our architectural blog.

University of Melbourne School of Design News

Cara Brogno, Shane Siy Cha

2nd Skin, University of Melbourne. The 2nd Skin exhibition showcases wearable volumes, deployable envelopes and structures that accommodate the complex geometry of the body. The projects are modeled digitally and fabricated from a 2d cutting template which is output directly through CNC card or laser cutter.