Long Beach Civic Center building design

Long Beach Civic Center Building

Design: Arup with HOK. The facilities – a City Hall, Port HQ, Main Library, Public Park and street improvements – are designed to be occupied within a week of a major earthquake and meet REDi Gold earthquake performance.

Xuhui Vanke Center Shanghai

Xuhui Vanke Center

Benoy, the global studio of Architects, Masterplanners, Interior and Graphic Designers, announce its appointment to the Xuhui Vanke Center in Shanghai.

Wallis Road Hackney Wick Regeneration, London

Wallis Road Hackney Wick

Design: Stockwool, Architects. Approval for £10m scheme to transform a light industrial site into a vibrant mixed-use development of new homes and employment space. An existing building will be retained to house artist studios.

Mixed-Use Hub in Notting Hill, West London

Mixed-Use Hub

Design: Studio RHE. Resolution Property plans to develop and enhance the site to create a new high-quality creative hub for digital businesses and independent retailers, together with loft-style upper floor apartments.

Piccadilly Circus London Building Development

Piccadilly Circus proposal by Fletcher Priest

Fletcher Priest Architects wins planning permission for a scheme to revive one of London’s most idiosyncratic and popular locations, the urban quarter that is home to the Piccadilly Lights and the historic Rainbow Corner.

Moffett Place High Garden in Sunnyvale

Moffett Place High Garden

DES Architects + Engineers complete the Moffett Place High Garden — a two-acre rooftop park — in the heart of Silicon Valley at Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County, California. It is one of the largest elevated parks ever completed in the region.

Canopia Mixed-Use Development in Bordeaux

Canopia

Design: Sou Fujimoto Architects + Nicolas Laisné Associates

Canopia, as the development is known, aims to become a focal point within the city. It is an urban landmark which, come nightfall, becomes a lighthouse or a star in the skyline of this regional city.

Beverly Hills Mixed-Use Campus: Frank Gehry

Beverly Hills Campus design by Frank Gehry architect

Developer Townscape Partners and architecture studio Gehry Partners propose an unsolicited plan to the Beverly Hills City Council to build a huge mixed-use campus: it includes cool office space, a five-star hotel, retail, and a three-acre public park

OXyGen Building in La Défense, Paris Tower

OxyGen Building

Design: Stephane Malka Architecture. OxyGen is the winning project for the development of La Défense’s Vignes area. OxyGen is a door ,a physical and visual input penetrating from the tracks and the banks of Neuilly sur Seine.

Union Square Aberdeen Shops, Stores

Union Square Aberdeen

Design: Benoy, Architects. 15 storey hotel tower plans part of a £200m expansion of Aberdeen’s Union Square shopping mall on behalf of Hammerson: an application for planning in principle for a new hotel and expanded retail, cinema and multi-storey car park.

Financial Street Shanghai Railway Station

Financial Street Shanghai Railway Station

Chicago-based architecture firm Goettsch Partners and Hong Kong-based studio Lead 8 won the design competition for a new 264,000-sqm multi-building mixed-use complex: Financial Street Shanghai Railway Station.

Tower Works in Leeds, Regeneration Project

Tower Works development in Leeds

Design: Jestico + Whiles, Architects. Unanimous planning consent received for this development. The former industrial site in the Holbeck Urban Village, a Conservation Area featuring several listed buildings, borders the Leeds-Liverpool canal.

Newmarket Road Mixed Use Development

Newmarket Road

Alison Brooks Architects’ mixed use scheme to reactivate a 19th C street off Newmarket Road in Cambridge has won resolution to consent from Cambridge Planning Department.

Quitowers in Quito Buildings

Quitowers

Design: Chapman Taylor. Quitowers is a new residential tower project in Quito, the capital city of Ecuador. At 2,850 metres (9,350 ft) above sea level, Quito is the highest official Capital city in the world.

Devon&Devon Colours Collection

Devon Colours Collection

Devon&Devon has launched a new colour customisation service offering 500 shades to choose from… and now extended to cover lacquered wood vanity units and “Home Boutique” accessories, as well as the company’s impressive range of cast iron baths.