River Bank Studio Apartment in Paris, Renewal

River Bank Studio Apartment

Design: CR2 Arquitetura and FGMF Arquitetos. “The idea was to make the studio attractive, and for that, it needed to be practical, economical and, in a way, neutral, able to suit different users,” explains the architect Clara Reynaldo, partner of CR2 Arquitetura.

House of Correction in Melbourne, Swanston St

House of Correction

Design: ZWEI Interiors Architecture. Working within the context of an existing CBD building, the design strips back the built layers and exposes the site’s history and amplifies this to create narrative and connection within the interior space.

The Cooperage in Clerkenwell, London House

The Cooperage in Clerkenwell | www.e-architect.com

An impressive house design by Chris Dyson Architects in the heart of Clerkenwell, East London, is the winner of a prestigious RIBA London Award. It is an industrial building constructed in the early 1900s.

Geffrye Museum ‘Unlocking the Geffrye’, London

Geffrye Museum Building London

Geffrye Museum funding news – proposals by Wright & Wright Architects receives £12.3million National Lottery grant. The architects “have a strong record of award-winning work with heritage buildings, sensitive sites and complex problems.”

Boulevard Haussmann department store in Paris

Boulevard Haussmann department store in Paris

Design: AL_A. Galeries Lafayette select British architecture studio AL_A for transformation of its Boulevard Haussmann department store, following a competition with 3 of the world’s leading architecture firms.

Music Arts and Cultural Quarter Sunderland

Music Arts and Cultural Quarter Sunderland Building MACQ

Design: Flanagan Lawrence, Architects. New auditorium building been granted planning approval and funding: Arts Council England awards a £6m grant through the National Lottery to the Sunderland Music, Arts and Culture (MAC) Trust towards the cost of the £8.2m building.

Newport Street Gallery London: Damien Hurst

Newport Street Gallery

Brick Awards winner, design by Caruso St John Architects, London. Conversion of a street of listed industrial buildings into a free public gallery for artist Damien Hirst. Winner of Stirling Prize 2016.

Willis Tower Building Renovation, Chicago

Willis Tower Building Wacker Drive entry

Numerous improvements revealed for Chicago’s tallest building. Totaling up to $500 m the renovations will include six floors of new retail space, an outdoor deck and a winter garden. The tower was once the world’s tallest building for 25 years.

Fondazione Prada in Milan Building

Fondazione Prada Milan building

Architects: OMA – Shortlisted for Mies van der Rohe 2017 Award. The Fondazione is not a preservation project and not a new architecture. Two conditions that are usually kept separate here confront each other in a state of permanent interaction – offering an ensemble of fragments that will not congeal into a single image.

Kings Co-op Redevelopment Brisbane, Queensland

Kings Co-op Redevelopment Brisbane

The next chapter of the $2.9 billion regeneration of Brisbane’s RNA Showgrounds starts with the construction of Kings Co-op, a mixed and adaptive re-use development designed by Australasian architects The Buchan Group.

Stubbs Mill: Urban Splash Housing in Manchester

Stubbs Mill Housing by Urban Splash in Ancoats

Urban Splash completes restoration of Stubbs Mill and unveils images. The mill, which originally made machines for industry, was constructed from 1880. The building has been sensitively restored for contemporary commercial uses.

Penthouse V in Pörtschach, Austria

Penthouse V in Pörtschach in Austria

Design: Destilat Architecture + Design

In the course of the revitalisation of the former Werzer cinema in Pörtschach, which was designed by the well-known “Wörthersee-Architect” Franz Baumgartner in 1930, parts of the roof truss were raised to make room for a spacious penthouse.