Rotterdam stays behind on two issues compared to other cities. First, Rotterdam has little functional green public space. Second, Rotterdam ignores a positive use for citizens and tourists of its 94-KM waterfront along the Maas River.
On the waterfront of the beautiful nature reserve The Lepelaarsplassen (Spoonbills lake) in Almere, the Netherlands, Villa L has been constructed. This villa is characterised by its compact form and its sustainability. Architect Gideon Maasland from T.T.B. DuurzameArchitectuur.nl made the design for this villa.
Django Building, Amsterdam Zuidas, apartment complex Holland – design by KCAP Architects – the building occupies lot 8 of Zuidas’ Gershwin, cluster III, district for which KCAP previously completed a mass study.
Kaufhaus Tyrol, Innsbruck shopping, Austrian department store – design by David Chipperfield Architects – Innsbruck retail project in Austria
PTA Pods Perth: The PTA information centre explores the capacity of architecture to create a centralised identity for the metropolitan public transport network.
Kuwaiti Residence. These six houses on three adjacent plots should be noticed for their bold black and white facade with far from being a decorative element reveals the very nature of this project.
Plans for a new world-leading medical research institute at St Pancras and Somers Town in London have been presented to Camden Council
The project demonstrates how careful, creative planning and design can be applied sensitively to generate a comfortable, luxurious, and sustainable family home.
A rough concrete shell in a true state of abandonment without windows or water protection more in the sense of a dilapidated ruin than a building of recent date; this was the starting point for this project.
N House, Aomori Prefecture: contemporary Japanese residence design by Frank la Rivière Architects, Japan. Constructed on a deep plot of land this low budget project would automatically be ‘long stretched’.
A crater measuring around 800 meters in diameter surrounded by woods, at its base a bare stretch of ground − in the Messel Pit near Darmstadt in central Germany, oil shale was mined for almost 100 years.
Steven Holl has been awarded the 2010 Jencks Award: Visions Built at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The Jencks Award is given annually to an individual that has recently made a major contribution simultaneously to the theory and practice of architecture internationally.
HP Skyline 2020 Competition, Winners, Designs, 2010, Images HP Skyline 2020 Design Competition : Architecture Contest HP Skyline 2020 Design Contest 2 Sep 2010 HP Skyline 2020 online design competition ABOUT THE COMPETITION: HP SKYLINE 2020, the online design competition outlined fresh visual imaginations for the skyline discarding preconceived notions. Initiated by HP & AEC … Read more
This project involved the refurbishment of the previous British Rail Headquarters buildings sited beside the eastbound carriageway of the A40 Westway in Paddington.
The competition will take place every two years and for each award cycle, six internationally renowned architectural firms will be invited to develop their visions for the future of a designated theme.
Thousands of buildings in the Netherlands lie vacant. Some of them for a week or a few months, many even for years. During the twelfth Venice Architecture Biennale, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) and Rietveld Landscape will highlight the huge potential of all that temporarily unoccupied space.
JA Joubert Architecture, a Rotterdam-based architectural office, has won first prize in an international competition for a new neighbourhood in Tirana, Albania.