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Saving this building design by architect Oscar Niemeyer: In 1962 this celebrated Brazilian architect flew in a helicopter over the outskirts of Tripoli, Lebanon. After two circuits over the city he had decided the best location for the fair.
Designed by Groupe3Architectes the new Guelmim Airport is located in an existing military infrastructure located 3km north of the city of Guelmim in the south of Morocco.
Unity Temple Restoration Oak Park, Illinois, by Harboe Architects, completed in 1908, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s greatest buildings. The building is a National Historic Landmark, a key work of Modern Architecture.
Getty Foundation 2018 Keeping it Modern Grants include the first grants awarded to buildings in Cuba, Lebanon, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, and Ireland, plus well-known landmarks such as the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture 2019 Winner: Royal Institute of British Architects announce Sir Nicholas Grimshaw will receive UK’s highest honour for architecture.
Eric Parry Architects has completed a new headquarters for Cambridge Assessment, the University of Cambridge’s world-renowned exams group and one of the largest employers in the city.
Nefa Architects’ aim is to provide cover from an atmospheric condensation, a shadow during the sunny summer and to give an electric light during the dark night – essential functions needed for a man whose intention to smoke with comfort.
Centrally located, steps away from St. Basil’s Cathedral, Red Square and the Kremlin, Zaryadye Park will be the first large-scale park to open in Moscow in the past fifty years. A design consortium led by Diller Scofidio + Renfro oversaw the transformation.
A study in classic furniture design for 85 years – Thonet tubular steel cantilever chairs at the Leipzig National Library. The landmark main building of the splendid library in the centre of Leipzig is characterised by impressive statues, busts and gilt decorative elements.
Following on from the Radical Essex project, this publication includes new writing from Tim Burrows, Gillian Darley, Charles Holland, Rachel Lichtenstein, Jules Lubbock, Jess Twyman and Ken Worpole, plus photography from Catherine Hyland.
Designed by Lazor Office the site of the Stretch House consists of three distinct but adjacent landscape types in the Catskills: a thick forest meets a hay field meets a meadow dotted with mature specimen trees.
Guggenheim New York Museum Architecture Competition – last built work by Frank Lloyd Wright, who had died earlier that year, was pelted with criticism: architecture dominated the art inside.
Designed by D U S T, Casa Caldera, the off-grid house, is located in a remote landscape on the southwestern bajada of the Canelo Hills in Southern Arizona’s San Rafael Valley, two hours southeast of Tucson and 15 miles north of the US/Mexico Border.
Glass House Ceiling Replacement, world-famous 20th Century American residence dating from 1949 to replace entire ceiling of the iconic structure. The building is one of 14 structures on the 49-acre site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The client approach MODO Architecture with a brief to renovate their double fronted cottage in Hawthorn, it soon became clear that their lifestyle revolved around their garden and spending their days outdoor as much as possible.
The Smith House, designed by Richard Meier & Partners Architects, located amidst the rocks and trees of a one-and-a-half-acre site, overlooks Long Island Sound from the Connecticut coast. The spatial organization of this house hinges on a programmatic separation between public and private areas.
Jestico + Whiles has been given the go ahead for the proposed new Cavendish Laboratory building called Cavendish III at the University of Cambridge, a major new project to replace existing facilities for the Department of Physics.