The Wool Resource Centre Hong Kong

The Wool Resource Centre

Architects: HASSELL. The Wool Resource Centre includes a library, a showroom and an events space for visitors to develop and enhance their education on wool. There are six separate zones including open-plan workspaces, a meeting room and an auditorium.

Çaycuma Science Center Proposal Turkey

Caycuma Science Center

Design: ONZ Architects & MDesign. The Çaycuma Science Center Architectural Competition was an open architectural competition organized by Çaycuma Municipality, a town in the Black Sea region of Turkey.

Dolphinarium in Klaipeda, Lithuania Museum

Dolphinarium

Design: Uostamiescio projektas. On the top of the building the roof cafe with a terrace was designed offering a view to the Curonian lagoon and the Baltic sea. Over the dolphin living space the sunroof was installed, dropping the maximum amount of light into the pool area.

Titanic Belfast Building, Northern Ireland

Titanic Belfast building

The BBC report that it is the biggest launch Belfast’s waterfront has seen in a 100 years. The last one was the Titanic itself. Now a century later the slipways are dominated by the imposing Titanic Belfast centre designed to commemorate the most famous vessel ever built.

Icefjord Centre in Ilulissat Building

Icefjord Centre

Design: Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter

The vision of a world-class tourist attraction in Ilulissat has come one step closer to realization with the selection of Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter’s proposal for an Icefjord Centre.

St Mary Redcliffe Competition Winner, Bristol

St Mary Redcliffe Church Bristol

Purcell beat Carmody Groarke, dRMM, Eric Parry Architects and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios in this architecture competition: they “demonstrated the deepest understanding of the site and context” with a “crisp, integrated and compelling” design.

Giants Causeway Ireland Visitor Centre Building

Giants Causeway Visitor Centre

Design: Heneghan Peng Architects. New photos of this uncompromising building on the north coast of Northern Ireland, designed “to blend in to the natural rural environment via re-establishment of the ridge-line by use of a part buried structure”.

St Mary Redcliffe Competition Shortlist, Bristol

St Mary Redcliffe Competition design by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Images of designs by the five finalist teams selected to develop concept designs in the second stage of this architecture competition: Carmody Groarke, dRMM, Eric Parry Architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Purcell.

Salisbury Plain Heritage Centre, Wiltshire Building

Salisbury Plain Heritage Centre

Design: Purcell, architects

Design team leader appointment on this project in Larkhill. The building is to be a sustainable new home to share the heritage of Salisbury Plain and display internationally significant collections.

Mottisfont Abbey Welcome Centre, Hampshire

Mottisfont Abbey Welcome Centre

Design: Grant Associates
National Trust opens new Welcome Centre for Mottisfont set within a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and featuring a landscape strategy by Grant Associates.

St Mary Redcliffe Competition Bristol

St Mary Redcliffe Church

This is a two-stage design competition; at the first stage, expressions of interest are sought; at the second, designers will be asked to respond to the church’s vision for an integrated scheme, incorporating a range of facilities within a building or buildings.

Cultural Center Väven in Umeå, Sweden

Cultural Center Väven in Umeå

Design: Snøhetta / White Arkitekter. The cultural center is part of an urban development project: the City between Bridges. The new development is seen as an important catalyst for Umeå’s urban regeneration, and it aims to create a cultural area along the river Ume.

Simon Aspinall Wildlife Education Centre Norfolk

Simon Aspinall Wildlife Education Centre Norfolk

Sir David Attenborough, President Emeritus of The Wildlife Trusts (NWT), and BBC Presenter and Ambassador for NWT, Ben Garrod, joined Norfolk Wildlife Trust in celebrating the official opening of the Simon Aspinall Wildlife Education Centre.