McBride Charles Ryan Architects

Ivanhoe Grammar

Ivanhoe Grammar Senior Years & Science Centre wins an award – the circular-shaped plan had an appropriate civic quality. The designers chose to use geometry and colour to define the central courtyards, light wells and learning spaces.

Studio ST Architects New York

Midtown Synagogue by Studio ST Architects

Studio ST Architects news – opinion piece by NYC architect Esther Sperber on #metoo, collaboration and the myth of the genius: “I had always envisioned Richard Meier to be like his signature white buildings: dignified and stately. And then came the March 13 New York Times story detailing allegations of his sexual harassment and abuse of five women.”

Lacaton + Vassal Architects, Paris, France

129 Units, Ourcq-Juarès Student and Social Housing, France

“Good architecture is open—open to life, open to enhance the freedom of anyone, where anyone can do what they need to do,” says Lacaton. “It should not be demonstrative or imposing, but it must be something familiar, useful and beautiful, with the ability to quietly support the life that will take place within it.”