The Museum of London announce the six architectural teams shortlisted to design its new museum in West Smithfield in the international design competition organised by Malcolm Reading Consultants (MRC).
Design: RAAAF [Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances] + Marcel Moonen. ‘Giardini in Silence’ is a proposal for the annual period of absence in between the Venice art- and architecture biennales. It reclaims public space from vandalism and security companies.
Remembering Zaha Hadid: the architect was recently awarded the RIBA’s 2016 Royal Gold Medal, the first woman to be awarded the prestigious honour in her own right. She also won the Stirling Prize twice, for the MAXXI Museum in Rome, and for Brixton’s Evelyn Grace Academy.
Design: Aedas, architects. Sina Plaza is the principal office in China for Sina Corporation, a Nasdaq listed company that operates Sina.com and Weibo social platform and has more than 85 million unique users per day
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. The Citylife project immersed in a park of 160,000 sqm (one of Europe’s largest pedestrianized zones) involves architects Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki and Daniel Libeskind.
Winners of Bee Breeders architecture competition for the Bangkok Artists Retreat. This competition aims to revitalise part of Bangkok’s Old Town and re-purpose one of the city’s notable landmarks – the Nightingale shopping mall – as an artists retreat.
Design: C.F. Møller Landscape
Nordhavn Islands project design wins international competition for an innovative learning, activity and water landscape in the harbour basin in front of the new Copenhagen International School.
The UK capital is a great place to visit with a wide range of architecture and numerous visitor attractions. We pick out some key examples below of major architecture in the British capital.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. DDP was the first public project in Korea to utilize the 3-Dimensional Building Information Modelling (BIM) and other digital tools in construction.
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Design: I Like Design Studio
Food Villa Market is a local open-air market open daily features outstanding standard of fresh market, offering a variety of high-quality food, life style shops and many more at a reasonable price.
Design: LKSVDD architecten. This project demonstrates that a transformation of a church with limited resources is possible, when using a smart design and an efficient plan. The concept was; strip, isolate and furnish.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. The architectural concept is inspired by the fluid geometries of water in motion, creating spaces and a surrounding environment that reflect the riverside landscapes of the Olympic Park.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. The 76m-high building provides space for over 1500 university students: home for the PolyU School of Design and newly-established Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects – the 85,000 sqft Rosenthal Center was the first U.S. museum designed by a woman and hailed by the New York Times as “the most important American building to be completed since the cold war.”
Design: APOLLO Architects & Associates . This building consists of a hybrid structure, with a podium on the 1st floor level composed of reinforced concrete and glazing, and wooden boxes configured in two floor levels and placed on top of the podium.
Zaha Hadid was widely regarded to be the greatest female architect in the world today. Born in Baghdad in 1950, she studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut before starting her architectural journey in 1972 at the Architectural Association in London.