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HOK Selected to Refurbish Palace of Westminster
HOK, in collaboration with Aecom and Deloitte, has been selected from a shortlist of five to lead the £720m refurbishment of London’s Palace of Westminster. As reported by BDOnline, the grade I listed...
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Digital Museum / Claudiu Ionescu
Architects: Claudiu Ionescu Location: Pecica, Romania Architect In Charge: Claudiu Ionescu Design Team: Claudiu Ionescu, Dragos Milotin, Gabriel Takacs, Calin Sebarchievici Area: 126 sqm Year: 2013...
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Stacey-Turley Residence / Kariouk
Architects: Kariouk Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada Architect In Charge: Paul duBellet Kariouk Design Team: Chris Davis, David King, Sarah McMurtry, Dimitar Mehandjiev, Adam Paquette Year: 2013...
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The Manta Underwater Room / Genberg Underwater Hotels
Architects: Genberg Underwater Hotels Location: Pemba Island, Tanzania Year: 2013 Photographs: Jesper Anhede From the architect. Imagine yourself encapsulated within a turquoise blue bubble, watching...
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Nuova Cantina Siliquini / Studio Scaramucci
Architects: Studio Scaramucci Location: Castel di Lama, Italy Architect In Charge: Emanuele Scaramucci Collaborator: Mirco Agostinelli Area: 5,000 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Emanuele Scaramucci...
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Villa Kogelhof / Paul de Ruiter Architects
Architects: Paul de Ruiter Architects Location: Noord-Beveland, The Netherlands Area: 715 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Jeroen Musch Contractor: J. van der Linde, Goes Advisor Construction: Broersma bv...
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Besiktas Fish Market Refurbishment / GAD
Architects: GAD Location: Beşiktaş/Istanbul Province, Turkey Architects In Charge: Gokhan Avcİoglu & GAD Area: 320.0 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Courtesy of GAD Collaborator: Besiktas Municipality...
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D. Residence / LP Architektur
Architects: LP Architektur Location: Lengau, Austria Area: 205 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: wortmeyer photography From the architect. In place of a modest masonry house with a neighboring stable...
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DawnTown Announces 2nd Design/Build Competition
DawnTown, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting architecture in Miami, is announcing an open call for portfolios to their new competition: DAWNTOWN DESIGN/BUILD 2. The search begins for a...
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Tavonatti House / PAR Arquitectos
Architects: PAR Arquitectos Location: Cachagua, Zapallar, Valparaíso Region, Chile Architect In Charge: Pablo Lopez, Alvaro Cortés, Rafael Grez Project Area: 1,683 sqm Project Year: 2011 Photographs:...
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Call for Expression of Interest: Connecting Divided Places
The Institute without Boundaries (IwB) is seeking curriculum partners for Connecting Divided Places, a project that investigates social, economic, environmental, and cultural divisions in cities. They...
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Cycle d’orientation de Cayla / LRS Architectes
Architects: LRS Architectes Location: Geneva, Switzerland Architect In Charge: LRS Architectes Area: 17,558 sqm Year: 2008 Photographs: Thomas Jantscher Architects Collaborators: Baillif et Loponte...
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The Bank of Canada to Receive Controversial Renovation
In this interesting report in the Ottawa Citizen, Maria Cook exposes the plan to renovate the Arthur Erickson-designed Bank of Canada Building in Ottawa. The existing building, which features a public...
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Building Transformed Into Giant Rubik’s Cube
Click here to view the embedded video. For his thesis project, Javier Lloret turned a building into a giant, solvable Rubik’s Cube. Making use of the media facade of the Ars Electronica in Linz,...
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Chapel of St. Albert the Great / Simpson & Brown
Architects: Simpson & Brown Location: George Square, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, UK Architect In Charge: Simpson & Brown Year: 2013 Photographs: Chris Humphreys Structural Engineer: Elliott...
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Lucid Stead: A “Disappearing” Cabin of Mirrors
In Joshua Tree, California, artist Phillip K Smith III has completed Lucid Stead: an optical illusion/installation that modifies an abandoned 70-year-old homestead with mirrors in order to make it...
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Rockefeller Foundation Selects 33 Cities for Resiliency Challenge
The Rockefeller Foundation has named the first group of cities selected in the “100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge.” Each city has been chosen for demonstrating “a commitment to building their...
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Competition Entry: Iran Pavilion (Expo Milan 2015) / New Wave Architecture
New Wave Architecture‘s proposal (one of eight) for the 2015 Milan Expo demonstrates an essence of Iran brought together in a series of organic forms. The expo’s theme, Feeding the Planet, Energy for...
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Competition Entry: Monument to Foot Soldiers / Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects
In honor of Alabama’s 50th Anniversary of the Birmingham Civil Rights Campaign, a national design competition was launched to envision a “Monument to Foot Soldiers.” New York City-based Jaklitsch /...
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3 Houses in Payandé Hill / Arquitectura en Estudio
Architects: Arquitectura en Estudio Location: Villeta, Cundinamarca, Colombia Architect In Charge: Arquitectura en Estudio, Natalia Heredia Area: 650 sqm Photographs: David Uribe From the architect....
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