© Hertha Hurnaus
Architects: Caramel Architekten
Location: Linz, Austria
User: Johannes Kepler University, Linz
Structural Engineering: Werkraum ZT gmbh, Vienna
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Hertha Hurnaus
© Nelson Garrido
Architects: Guedes + DeCampos – Francisco Vieira de Campos
Location: Vilarinho dos Freires, Peso da Régua, Portugal
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Nelson Garrido
Courtesy of Studio Schiattarella
Conjugating innovation and tradition, the first prize winning proposal for the Celebration Hall of Riyadh by Studio Schiattarella, in collaboration with Tecturae, aims at adhering to the specific route adopted by the Saudi culture. The building appears to be the requirement currently expressed globally and each culture develops it in its own fashion. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
Courtesy of Make Architects
Architects: Make Architects
Location: London, UK
Client: City of London
Collaborators: Arup, Davis Langdon
Project Area: 135 sqm
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Zander Olsen, Make Architects
Courtesy of Weysen & De Baere Architects
Weysen & De Baere Architects recently won a competition to design a multi-funcional hall with a daycare center and small library in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, at the outskirts of Antwerp (Belgium). The building measures around 2.100m2, and spreads over 2 stories. The program occupies a significant part of the intervention site and in order to guarantee a building as compact as possible, the multifunctional hall is centered on the site. More images and architects’ description after the break.
© Christian Richters
Architects: Bjarne Mastenbroek and Dick Van Gameren
Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Design: Bjarne Mastenbroek, Dick Van Gameren
Assistants: Lada Hrsak, Wilmar Groenendijk, Jack Hoogeboom, Jeroen van Mechelen, Matteo Fosso, Miguel Loos, Michael Davis
Client: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Completion Date: 2005
Photographs: Christian Richters
© Jonathan Wallen
Architects: Platt Byard Dovell White Architects
Location: 50 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Cost: $20 million
Completed: 2007
Client: Poly Prep Country Day School
Landmark Status: Park Slope Historic District
Original Architect: Montrose Morris, Romanesque Revival Hulbert Mansion
Project Team: Samuel G. White, FAIA, Design Principal; Serena Losonczy, Project Manager; Matthew Mueller, Job Captain; Leonard Leung; Marie Marberg; Charles Melansen; Tomo Tsujita; Julie Janiski, LEED AP
Photographs: Jonathan Wallen
Courtesy of Kalarch Design Group
Shanghai Zhangpu civic center, designed by Kalarch Design Group, is an administration and government complex organized like a city and structured in three concepts, government, business and public services. The overall circular layout is based on the shape of local traditional jade ware, which symbolizes peace and harmony. The open layout with a central courtyard also expresses their hope for a more modern and friendly government. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
Courtesy of Habibeh Madjdabadi Architecture Office
Mellat Bank, with its 3000 branches in Iran, is considered one the most important Iranian banks. Due to the tough competition among the Iranian banks for renovating their image, in January 2009, Mellat Bank management asked the above mentioned designers to design a new façade for its branches. In order to evaluate the sociological, technical and visual consequences of such new corporate concept, the bank decided to apply it first in the façade of an existing branch. More images and project description after the break. read more »
© José Manuel Cutillas
Architects: Virai Arquitectos
Location: Finca de La Grajera, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain
Design Team: Marta Parra, Jesús Aramendía, Laila Arias, Juan Manuel Herranz, Federico Wulff, Jorge Garrudo, Christian Alvarez, Rodrigo Aragón, Guillermo Lacarra, María Aramendía and Stepan Martinovsly
Area: 6,900 sqm
Year: Completed 2011
Budget: 11,292,757 Euros
Photographs: José Manuel Cutillas, Diego Carreño
Courtesy of LETH & GORI
Lidköping Police Building is LETH & GORI’s proposal in the open competition for a new police headquarter and public parking facilities in Lidköping, Sweden. The project site is an open square on the border of Lidköping’s historical urban plan from 1672. The site is an important entrance point to the historic city and one of the design objectives of the competition was how to emphasize this. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
Courtesy of Khoury Levit Fong
The Planning Exhibition Hall by Khoury Levit Fong is a new urban institution with a particular spatial constitution and purpose. While most are based on familiar building precedents, such as museums or convention halls, they believe that the unique dedications of this institution demands a formal and typological invention: an ocular device or camera transformed into a building. So they place the large-scale city model (1:600) on a plinth that seamlessly extends the public realm into the building by sloping up from the street. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
© Design Team + Moka Studio
The new municipality building of Netanya, located in the old part of the city introduces a unique public park for the city – a green heart – that like a ribbon gradually transforms from a horizontal landscape to a vertical climatic structure. Designed by the Dutch office ShaGa Studio in collaboration with Shyovitz Architects, they define Netanya’s future identity as a coastal city which truly embraces an urban sustainable lifestyle for its residents, workers and visitors. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
© Julien Lanoo
Architects: TRANSFORM + DS architecture
Location: Nanterre, France
Client: French Ministry of Interior
Gross Area: 780 sqm
Budget exc. VAT: 1,8M€
Photographs: Julien Lanoo
© Christopher Frederick Jones
Architect: Cox Rayner Architects, ABM Architects
Location: 43 Ellenborough Street, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Project Year: 2009
Cost at completion of construction: $93 million
Gross floor area: 19,800 sqm
Project Team: Michael Rayner – Design Director, Terry Murchison – Design Director, Jayson Blight – Design Leader, David McCabe – Project Architect, Clayton Bray – Project Architect, Abigroup Contractors – Builder
Photographs: Christopher Fredrick Jones, Florian Groehn
© Alex Mulder
Architect: BDG Architecten Ingenieurs Zwolle
Location: Weert, The Netherlands
Client: BrandweerWeert
Completion: 2011
Photographs: Alex Mulder
© Miguel de Guzmán
Architects: TASH (Taller de Arquitectura Sánchez-Horneros)
Location: Toledo, Spain
Authors: Antonio Sánchez-Horneros, Emilio Sánchez-Horneros
Collaborators: Javier Rodríguez, Emilio Gómez, Alberto Di Nunzio, Alvaro Cabrera, Nieves Somacarrera, Isabel Ruiz De Los Paños, Sandra Nieto, Antonio Calvo, Cecilio Aguilera
Client: Servicios Periféricos de la Consejería de Sanidad y Asuntos Sociales de Toledo
Project Area: 7,337.05 sqm
Completion: 2011
Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán, Javier Acedo
© Agisilaou & Spyrou
Architects: Petros Konstantinou, Yiorgos Hadjichristou
Location: Engomi, Nicosia, Cyprus
Collaborators: Veronika Antoniou and Joao Teigas
External collaborator: Alessandra Swiny
Owner: University of Nicosia
Constructor: Lois Builders ltd
Year: 2011
Photographs: Agisilaou and Spyrou, Yiorgos Hadjichristou and Petros Konstantinou, Nikos Philippou
Courtesy of Yaniv Pardo Architects
Through an innovative redesign by Yaniv Pardo Architects, the Netanya city center will be turned into a vibrant and exciting location, befitting a large metropolis. The municipality building will act as the city’s iconic landmark, an architectural milestone supporting the city’s unique urban landscape. The concept leans heavily on the residents of the city who will be using the space for a wide range of activities and services – cultural, social, leisure, commercial etc. Their movement across the space throughout the day will create a bustling urban center. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
Courtesy of Chyutin Architects
Chyutin Architects, in collaboration with Shmaya Zarfati, shared with us their first prize winning proposal for the District Courthouse in Jerusalem. Located on a newly designed main public square in the city center, the building houses all the judiciary levels except the Supreme Court, and contains 113 courtrooms and 135 judges’ chambers. The design of the court building connects and bridges among the host of diverse design languages of the buildings around it while creating a distinctive language of its own. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
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