Bluecoat Liverpool City Centre Building

Bluecoat Liverpool City Centre’s Oldest Building

It is Liverpool’s oldest surviving city centre building and a fine example of Queen Anne-style architecture, yet the builders and architects responsible for creating Bluecoat have remained unconfirmed – until now. New research has discovered fresh information about the origins of this much-loved Liverpool building, which dates from 1717 and started life as a charity school before becoming a centre for the contemporary arts.

Regent Street Shop Window London Facades

Regent Street Shop Window

KSR Architects collaborated with KTBS Ltd on the design and the display lumination with Lighting.London. The forest parts like a stage curtain to unveil 7 For All Mankind’s brand new b(air) jeans mysteriously floating in the centre of the display.

Pembroke Place Development, Liverpool

Pembroke Studios Liverpool

Property Developers YPG commence works on the proposed 94 new build self-contained studios located in an enviable position in the heart of the learning centre of Liverpool.

Lime Street Liverpool Renewal, Gateway

Lime Street Liverpool Renewal

Design: Broadway Malyan + Austin-Smith:Lord Architects. The £39m regeneration of Lime Street proceeds after the Court of Appeal rejected heritage campaigners’ bid to overturn planning permission. Regeneration Liverpool, with developers Neptune, propose a new hotel, retail and student accommodation complex.

Manchester Toast Rack Flats

Manchester Toast Rack Flats

Renewal Design: Ollier Smurthwaite / SixTwo Architects. The Toastrack proposal is to refurbish and re-use the post-war Grade II listed Hollings Park Campus buildings. The unusual Brutalist building was designed by the city architect and completed in 1960.

Christ Church Crypt Spitalfields, London Building

Christ Church Crypt Spitalfields

Design: Dow Jones Architects – Wood Awards 2016 Building Shortlisted. This project redevelops the crypt at Christ Church Spitalfields, a Grade I listed building by Nicholas Hawksmoor, completed in 1729, and widely regarded as his masterpiece.

Shellharbour Workers Club Building

Shellharbour Workers Club building

Design: Buchan Group Architects. Work has begun on a $74 m development masterplan for the Shellharbour Workers Club that will not only transform the long-standing clubhouse, but also deliver an extensive range of new community facilities.

Via Chiese 72-74, Milan Offices

Via Chiese 72-74

Design: Park Associati. The renovation project proposes a complete revision of a building of poor architectural quality built at the beginning of the ‘80s which has become outdated in terms of both energy and distribution.

Lincoln Center Buildings: New York Architecture

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a 16.3-acre (6.6-hectare) complex of buildings, hosting notable performing arts organizations such as the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, and the New York City Ballet.

Florey Building in Oxford

The Florey, Oxford

Florey Building Oxford proposal by Avanti Architects approved: the Grade II-listed design is a key Modernist building, a rare surviving work of architect James Stirling. The building setting is improved through removal of a car park and enhanced public realm.

The Best Home Competition

The Best Home Competition

The competition is both a race that pushes the boundaries of the concept of house design and an opportunity of exposure. The competition is open to anyone worldwide including designers, architects, landscape architects, artists, engineers and students and all professionals in areas related to architecture.

61 Oxford Street, London Soho Building

61 Oxford Street

Architect: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. This project between Oxford street and Soho Square was being developed by Derwent London. Originally a tower was proposed but this was rejected by City of Westminster Council.

Museum of Russian Impressionism Moscow

Museum of Russian Impressionism in Moscow

Design: John McAslan + Partners, architects. The art museum building is part of the redevelopment of the historic Bolshevik Factory. The building will display Russian Impressionist art, temporary exhibitions, lectures, concerts and multi-media presentations.

State Library of Victoria Vision 2020 Renewal

State Library of Victoria Vision 2020 Redevelopment

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Architectus selected from shortlist of four architectural design teams to design the $83.1 million State Library of Victoria Vision 2020 redevelopment in Melbourne, Australia.