International offshoots of the organization known as the “Chapters” were preserved by volunteers in over 30 cities around the world and have formed the Open Architecture Collaborative (OAC) to bring humanitarian design back to the mainstream.
Design: Studio Ron Shenkin. The Concrete House building consists of two rectangles placed perpendicularly on top of each other. The two rectangles connected by a bare concrete strip with a wooden like texture, formed by the formwork from where it was produced, this concert strip act as a ribbon, wrapping the rectangles together.
The competition for Eastbourne’s Iconic Beach Competition has reached its climax as judges announce the winners.
Villa 4.0., Hilversum, The Netherlands. Dutch studio Mecanoo has completed the last of a series of renovations on a 1967 home in Hilversum, The Netherlands, called Villa 4.0., reports designboom. The original building completed in 2011 was designed by dick van gameren in collaboration with iding interior design and michael van gessel landscape.
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Design: Tomas Rossant of Ennead Architects, with Jones Studio. With the state of the country’s legal education a hot topic of current debate, Arizona State University is poised to reinvent the law school experience—both in program and design—with its new Arizona Center for Law and Society.
Regents Place – architecture info + photos. Key buildings at Triton Square, off Euston Road in North London, designers include Sheppard Robson Architects ; Wilkinson Eyre Architects; Munkenbeck and Marshall Architects; Farrells
Design: ODA. The practice of orienting a home to the path of the sun is as old as civilization itself, and in nature, significantly predates it. Just as plants and flowers orient themselves to the sun through phototaxis, the newest building designed by ODA New York, appears to be doing the same.
Fluid movements leading to dynamic forms, the celeste jewellery pieces reflect the seamless complexity of the vision Zaha Hadid has explored and developed over the past three decades.
Design: BTE Architecture. Located on a peninsula overlooking the UK’s largest stretch of inland water, Loch Lomond: the viewpoint takes the shape of a triangular platform and is positioned at the end of a long curved path stretching form the car park to the highest point of the peninsula.
Design: blaanc, architects. Implanted on a large agricultural estate, the house is built in the middle of the property’s vineyard on an almost flat terrain adjacent to a cork oak forest. The one storey building slips easily into the calm and serenity of the surroundings.
Design: Mott MacDonald: the AU$63 million redevelopment of Flinders University’s Plaza and Student Hub has been completed in Adelaide, Australia. Mott MacDonald provided project management, environmental and independent technical review services during the redevelopment.
Design: LUMO Architects. Enjoy nature and the great outdoors from a series of designed shelter constructions and camp sites: 19 locations along the coasts of the South Fyn Archipelago.
Design: Rogers Stirk Harbour Partners with Arup. Skyfarm was initiated as a research project in response to the 2015 Milan Expo theme ‘feed the world’. It is said that by the year 2050 nearly 80 per cent of the earth’s population will reside in urban centres.
Fletcher Priest Architects wins planning permission for a scheme to revive one of London’s most idiosyncratic and popular locations, the urban quarter that is home to the Piccadilly Lights and the historic Rainbow Corner.
Design: Frédérique Pyra Legon architecte
Purchasers of this small villa of 80 sqm modern style about 1960 are a couple with two young children ages, living in Paris and who want a second home by the sea.
Proposals to further transform the Royal Docks and deliver 24,000 new homes announced by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson MP. Chinese developer ABP has secured planning permission for a large financial and business district at Royal Albert Dock that will generate £6 billion to the London economy.