London's Royal College of Art (RCA) have revealed seven invited shortlisted practices for its new state-of-the-art £108million Battersea South campus. Featuring a smattering of architects from Europe, including Herzog & de Meuron and Lacaton & Vassal, and from the USA, such as Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Studio Gang, the organisation intends to announce the winning scheme in October 2016.
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Kerez, Herzog & de Meuron and Studio Gang Shortlisted to Design London's Royal College of Art's Battersea Campus
Valhalla / Denizen Works
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Architects: Denizen Works
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Archway Sheet Metal Works, Inwood Developments Limited, Martin Childs Limited
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Professionals: Price & Myers, Silverwood Construction and Management
Stanton Williams & Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands Selected to Design UCL’s Olympic Park Campus
University College London (UCL) has selected Stanton Williams and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands to design buildings for two sites as part of the first phase of the new UCL East campus. The campus will be constructed at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London, adjacent to the London Olympics Stadium, Zaha Hadid’s London Aquatics Center and the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower by Anish Kapoor, and is anticipated to contain facilities for a major new school of design.
Google's King Kross HQ / Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
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Architects: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
- Area: 371000 ft²
- Year: 2016
These Everyday Household Items Convert Light Into Energy
London-based design firm Caventou has designed a series of “stained glass” everyday objects that turn daylight into electricity, even indoors.
Integrated with solar cells, Current Table and Current Window are both independent, intelligent power sources that function normally as household items.
British Airways i360, World's Tallest Moving Observation Tower, Opens in UK
UPDATE: We have added new night photos of the i360 as the ‘breathing’ lighting has been switched on for the first time. The lights were designed by Do-Architecture and can be programmed to display a range of color and pattern options.
David Marks of Marks Barfield Architects, explains, “The concept for the lighting at the top of the tower is that it ‘breathes’, gently increasing and decreasing in intensity at the average rate of a human being breathing at rest.”
The world’s tallest moving observation tower, British Airways i360, will open to the public this Thursday, August 4th. Designed by Marks Barfield Architects, the firm behind the iconic London Eye, the i360 tower will transport 200 visitors at a time up 138 meters to take in views of the city of Brighton and Hove, the Sussex coast and the English Channel. With a height to width ratio of more than 40:1, the structure was also designated as the most slender tower in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records after topping out in February.
Bakery Place / Jo Cowen Architects
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Architects: Jo Cowen Architects
- Year: 2016
Stanton Williams and Asif Khan Selected to Design Future Home for the Museum of London
Stanton Williams and Asif Khan have been announced as the winners of the competition to design the new Museum of London at West Smithfield. Beating out 70 entries from top firms and a shortlist including BIG, Caruso St. John and Lacaton & Vassal, the winning proposal was selected for its “innovative thinking, sensitivity to the heritage of existing market buildings and understanding of practicalities of creating a great museum experience.”
Foundry Mews / Project Orange
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Architects: Project Orange
- Area: 800 m²
- Year: 2016
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Professionals: Barnard & Associates, Charter Construction, PHWarr
Pea Soup House / Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
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Architects: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
- Area: 52 m²
- Year: 2016
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Professionals: Expedition Studio, Studio Mothership
Lambeth Marsh House / Fraher Architects
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Architects: Fraher Architects
- Area: 140 m²
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: Constant Design Ltd, Fraher and Co, Forma Ltd
City of London Building Award 2016 Winners Announced
New Ludgate, a retail and commercial development located two blocks east of St. Paul’s Cathedral in downtown London, has been named the City of London Building of the Year 2016. The complex consists of two new buildings, One New Ludgate by Fletcher Priest Architects and Two New Ludgate by Sauerbruch Hutton. The award was given in recognition of “the buildings that support the ambitions of the City of London in delivering a world-class working environment, by evaluating both the quality of the architectural design and the impact the building has had on the city street scene.”
AD Classics: The Barbican Estate / Chamberlin, Powell and Bon Architects
On the 29th December, 1940, at the height of the Second World War, an air raid by the Luftwaffe razed a 35-acre site in the heart of the City of London to the ground. The site was known as the Barbican (a Middle English word meaning fortification), so-called for the Roman wall which once stood in the area. Following the war, the City of London Corporation—the municipal governing body for the area—started to explore possibilities to bring this historic site into the twentieth century.
Round-Up: Tall Stories From Monocle 24's 'The Urbanist'
A new collection of five minute-long Tall Stories—developed by the team behind The Urbanist, Monocle 24's weekly "guide to making better cities—guide the listener through the condensed narratives of a series of architectural projects from around the globe, encompassing their conception, development, use and, in some cases, eventual demise. We've selected eight of our favorites from the ongoing series, ranging from London’s Casson Pavilion to Honolulu's Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial, and the Estadio Centenario stadium in Montevideo.
Drapers Field / Kinnear Landscape Architects
- Year: 2014
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Professionals: Cinns, Synergy Consulting, Webb Yates Engineers
Serpentine Summer House / Barkow Leibinger
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Architects: Barkow Leibinger
- Area: 50 m²
- Year: 2016
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Professionals: AECOM, AKT II, /StageOne, Intelligent Engineering Gerrards Cross