Salter Road Housing, London Homes

Salter Road Housing London 1

Hawkins\Brown has just won planning permission to develop 103 homes on the site of the former Fisher FC ground on Salter Road, in Rotherhithe. The Salter Road scheme for Fairview New Homes comprises two terraces of three-storey family houses, and a series of four-storey mansion blocks, including provision for Mobility homes and affordable housing.

Trädgårdsstaden, Garden City in Helsingborg

Trädgårdsstaden

Design: Kjellander + Sjöberg Architects. K + S’ proposal the Trädgårdsstaden, Garden City in Helsingborg, has won the land transfer competition for Ringstorp in Helsingborg, issued by the municipality of Helsingborg, with developers Sundprojekt and Strabag.

Nine Elms Homes South Bank

Nine Elms Homes

Design: Grid Architects and Maccreanor Lavington. Wandsworth Council has approved plans to replace the Christies Fine Arts Warehouse in Nine Elms with a mixed use development including 510 homes and new cultural space.

Eteläpuisto Park Tampere Competition winner news

Eteläpuisto Park Tampere Competition Winner 4

Design: KCAP Architects&Planners

KCAP Architects&Planners with a team of international collaborators has been chosen as one of two winners in the competition Eteläpuisto Park Tampere. The competition is part of the Tampere city center development program. The design of team KCAP with as title ‘Sunny Side of the City’ has been chosen unanimously as shared first prize out of a selection of six competing entries.

Habitable Wind Farms on the Coast of Holland

Habitable Wind Farms

Design: Murtada Alkaabi – designer at To Create. Over the years, we see that there is increasing interest in wind energy. However, governments concentrate only on the functionality of wind power systems. Therefore, these systems became bigger in size and more expensive.

DM2 Housing in Porto Property

Dm2 Housing

Design: OODA. One of the most demanding tasks in Porto nowadays is the intervention on the major amount of old and historical buildings of Porto´s downtown. This project is a renovation of a 20th century building to convert to a 17 housing unit for students and young people in general.

Ramzi Towers, Lagos Building, Nigeria

Ramzi Towers

Design: SPARK Architects. This is a residential tower development on Victoria Island, Lagos, for client Athena Capital Investment. Ramzi Towers is situated in the heart of exclusive Victoria Island. This 18 storey building is designed to give 360 degree panoramic views to downtown Lagos and across the Gulf of Guinea to the Atlantic Ocean.

Welwyn Garden City Housing, Hertfordshire

Welwyn Garden City

Design: EPR Architects. Spen Hill Developments Ltd – a wholly owned subsidiary of Tesco – has appointed awardwinning EPR Architects to develop a masterplan for the old Shredded Wheat Factory site on Broadwater Road, Welwyn Garden City.

Vivid Sydney Interactive Sculpture, Martin Place

Vivid Sydney Interactive Sculpture

Design: The Buchan Group. Vivid Sydney festival’s first interactive sculpture feature designed by Brisbane-based architecture practice. People passing through Sydney’s CBD will lend their face to a submerged giant human head rising out of Martin Place during this year’s Vivid Sydney festival, Australia’s largest annual light festival. ‘e|MERGEnce’ is an innovative 3D light sculpture that projects viewers’ faces onto a giant head.

Arbre Blanc Multipurpose Tower, Montpellier

Arbre Blanc France

Design: Sou Fujimoto Architects + Nicolas Laisné Associates + Manal Rachdi Oxo Architects. The architects Sou Fujimoto Architects + Nicolas Laisné Associates + Manal Rachdi Oxo Architects associated to the developers Promeo Patrimoine + EVOLIS promotions, have won the competition for the construction of the second “Architectural Folie of the XXIth century” in Montpellier.

Grove Towers, Mumbai Ornate Spaces

Grove Towers Mumbai 2

3XN’s design team was invited for the event which unveiled the 77.000 m2 project inspired by the Indian nature and Mumbai’s mangroves. Just as clusters of mangrove stalks seemingly braid together at the base, the two towers in this mixed use development converge at the lower retail floors, rising up to provide amenity spaces on the podium; and grow into the sky as a cluster of slender trees providing some of Mumbai’s most thoughtfully laid out residential accommodation.

Block Rehabilitation in Historic Centre of Lagos

Block Rehabilitation

Design: Vitor Vilhena Architecture. The Block Rehabilitation is located in the historical center of Lagos. It adjoins four streets, with fronts built in all the above the streets, forming a quarter

The existing buildings, were very degraded, without possibility of adaptation. The complete demolition of existing buildings was authorized by Governmental Departments and the building was totally reconstructed.

Renngasse Housing in Vienna by 3XN

Renngasse Housing Vienna

Architects 3XN win international architecture competition for a residential development in the heart of Vienna. With a design that gently fits into the neighborhood, but also with its own expression and identity, the proposal was chosen as the winner by a unanimous jury.

The building is located in Vienna’s sensitive and historic city center thus the design required a considerate adaptation to the adjacent historical buildings.