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Architecture contest winners news – New York City has seen rapid redevelopment that has capitalized on previously undesirable locations. Most ventures are private economic interests only addressing public value when profit is possible.
Design: Arq. Gabriela Caicedo-Liebert / Home Vision DNA. The intention was to achieve an architecture of dignity and honesty. The front façade expresses the key characteristics of MIMO, an architectural style that evolved from Art Deco and Streamline.
Design: Prototype Design Lab Inc. The Bella Vita Villa celebrates its natural, oceanfront site. The villa explores lightness, filtering natural breezes, layers of transparency and integrating indoor / outdoor spaces within dynamic patterns of light and shadow.
Design: Lead 8 with BuroHappold Engineering. A vision to transform the Hong Kong waterfront into an iconic 23 km urban pedestrian network.
Design: C.F. Møller Landscape
Nordhavn Islands project design wins international competition for an innovative learning, activity and water landscape in the harbour basin in front of the new Copenhagen International School.
Le Corbusier’s tapestry Les Dés Sont Jetés (The Dice Are Cast), commissioned by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, now hanging in the Sydney Opera House building, NSW, Australia.
The competition for Eastbourne’s Iconic Beach Competition has reached its climax as judges announce the winners.
Proposals to further transform the Royal Docks and deliver 24,000 new homes announced by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson MP. Chinese developer ABP has secured planning permission for a large financial and business district at Royal Albert Dock that will generate £6 billion to the London economy.
Design: Henning Larsen Architects for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, taking place in August 2016, Denmark has been granted the unique opportunity to set up a pavilion on the world-famous Ipanema Beach.
Design: Yrki architects. The orange color of the structure is that of traditional seaman’s wear. The alerting orange color makes the seamen visible, from near and from far, and enhances their security.
Design: Strang Architecture. Built on speculation, this tropical modern residence is located on DiLido Island in Miami Beach. Open water views of Biscayne Bay informed the design of this six-bedroom home.
Design: Tham & Videgård Arkitekter. Tall pines give the forested site an untouched character. The house is placed in a clearing with a high position in the landscape, on a plateau facing the sea in the north.
Design: Walker & Martin Architects. WAM win the prestigious Surface Design Awards for the Sustainable Exterior Surface category with Kebony for the cladding of its two contemporary beach houses located on Camber Sands.
The Rotana Salalah is the largest five star hotel in Oman and comprises 400 rooms. Situated in Salalah, design by GM Architects, is one of the most beautiful hotels in the country thanks to its exceptional setting
Ani Villa Dikwella, Sri Lanka luxury resort design by AW2, Architects on a site of beauty and drama. The new property is organised as a series of clusters, each one made up of separate pavilions
La Grande Mosaïque, MVRDV Architects’ urban planning project in Caen, France, has been in development for two years and has already seen a series of projects under construction within the masterplan.
Design: Richard Meier & Partners Architects. A new boutique hotel: composed of two main buildings and supporting facilities nestled into a hill of dense pine trees overlooking the East Sea, Gyeongpo Lake and the Taebaek mountains.