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South Los Angeles Animal Care Center & Community Center / RA-DA

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Veterinary, Community center
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Los Angeles, United States
  • Architects: RA-DA
    : Carolyn Telgard, Jesse Madrid
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2013

Elysium Playground / Cox Rayner Architects

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Park
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Gold Coast, Australia

Miami Beach Convention Center Winning Proposal / South Beach ACE

South Beach ACE, the collaborative team made up of Tishman, a national real estate development firm led by Dan Tishman; international architecture firm OMA, led by Pritzker Prize winning architect Rem Koolhaas; and Miami Beach developer Robert Wennett, were just announced by the Miami Beach City Commission as the winning team in a competition to redevelop the Miami Beach Convention Center and the surrounding 52-acre site. Looking forward to bring the project to fruition, the team firmly believes a renovated convention center, adjacent hotel, and re-imagined convention center campus are critical to Miami Beach's ability to maintain and grow its desirability as a tourism and convention destination. More images and the team's description after the break.

Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre Expansion / Cox Rayner Architects

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Exhibition center
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Brisbane, Australia

Hut with the Arc Wall / Tato Architects

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Public Architecture
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Sanuki, Japan

Rhine Falls Visitor Center / Leuppi & Schafroth Architekten

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visitor center
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Laufen-Uhwiesen, Switzerland

Flinders Street Revitalisation / Cox Rayner Architects

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Public Space
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Townsville, Australia

'Floating Plaza' Competition Entry / NC-Office

NC-Office shared with us their 'Floating Plaza' proposal for the competition that called for the urban concept and architectural design and development of Sveta Nedelya Square, in the city of Sofia. The main strategy for the project is to provide a clearly defined plaza for congregation in the heart of Sofia. To achieve this, the architects propose a plane which “peels” away from the north side of Sveta Nedelya Church and floats over Boulevard Vitosha. This ‘plane’ alludes to the historical use of that area of ancient Serdika. More images and architects' description after the break.

KBH / Atrium studio

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Community
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Moscow, Russia

Toender City Hall Extension Competition Entry / HAO (Holm Architecture Office) + Sebastian Misiurek

Located in Toender, a city in southern Denmark, close to the Danish and German border, the new City hall extension by HAO (Holm Architecture Office) + Sebastian Misiurek is designed to optimize interior flexible space while taking full advantage of the beautiful landscape that surrounds it. Integrating a high degree of spatial flexibility, this enables the building to programmatically change over time, and incorporates a number of informal work and meeting spaces. More images and architects’ description after the break.

Can Ribas / Jaime J. Ferrer Forés

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Public Space
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Palma, Spain

Merate Piazza / Archea

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Square
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Merate, Italy
  • Architects: Archea
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  5280 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2010

Women's Opportunity Center in Rwanda / Sharon Davis Design

Women for Women International (WfWI) is a global NGO that has supported the construction of the Women's Opportunity Center, to be opened shortly, in Kayonza Rwanda. The Center, design by Sharon Davis Design, is an environmentally friendly, multi-use facility that will become a support mechanism for the education of women and the support and advancement of the community in the region. The WOC is an element of WfWI's mission to address poverty and the effects of genocide through education and self-empowerment. The facility is part community gathering space, part education center where women can attain job training and learn new skills, and use services to find employment or start their own businesses.

Public Realm Plan Proposal / Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios + Grant Associates

Westminster City Council has just announced Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, urban designers and architects and Grant Associates, UK landscape architects, as part of a multidisciplinary team to devise a twenty-year infrastructure and public realm plan for Church Street, London, to support the council’s housing renewal strategy. Residents have just voted in favor of proceeding with the first phase of regeneration plans for Church Street in a ward-wide referendum. More images and architects' description after the break.

Qinmo Village / Rural Urban Framework

Qinmo Village / Rural Urban Framework - Landscape Architecture, Arch
© Rural Urban Framework
Installations & Structures, Landscape Architecture
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China

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Piazza Gae Aulenti / AECOM

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Square
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Milano, Italy

Fire Station 1 / agn Niederberghaus & Partner GmbH

Fire Station 1 / agn Niederberghaus & Partner GmbH - Fire Station, Facade
© Hans-Jürgen Landes
Fire station
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Dortmund, Germany

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Updated Plans Released for Chicago's Navy Pier

Updated Plans Released for Chicago's Navy Pier - Infrastructure
Courtesy of nARCHITECTS

James Corner Field Operations (JCFO) and nARCHITECTS have released updated renderings for their competition-winning redesign of Chicago’s 3,300 foot long Navy Pier. The slightly scaled-back, revised plans seemed to have dismissed the more “dramatic” and costly facets reviewed in last years’ submittal, such as the floating pool and sand beach, to depict a contemporary “park-like feel.” Highlighted features include the south-facing Wave Wall and grand stairway, inspired by the Spanish Steps in Rome, along with an interactive splash fountain-turned-winter ice skating rink at the beginning of a heavily vegetated promenade.

These updated plans for phase-one of the Navy Pier redesign were released alongside an announcement by the Chicago Mayor’s office that confirmed the project will receive $55 million in public funding.

More images and information after the break...