(Simon_sees– flickr/creative commons license) The Australian Institute of Architects’ awarded this project and remarked it is “a careful reworking of a significant modernist building…” and “This is a strong reworking of an important building and shows how existing building stock …
Month: June 2015
(petermcottle– flickr/creative commons license) The UC campus in San Diego has some amazing architecture. The Atkison Hall, a high-tech research home for the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) opened in 2005 with 900 researchers and staff from …
(roryrory– flickr/creative commons license) Alfred Berger & Tiina Parkkinen out of Vienna conceived of cooperation among various embassies in Berlin by combining structure and organization into an overall plan with Nordic overtones. Five embassies are organized in a star-shaped plan, …
(Javi sas– flickr/creative commons license) The most impressive project I’ve seen this year is the Caixa Forum in Madrid Spain by Herzog & de Meuron. As the new headquarters of the cultural centre of the “la Caixa” Foundation in …
(alvarolg– flickr/creative commons license) Luis M. Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón designed this winner of the Mies van der Roh award. In the MUSAC in Leon, each exhibit is seperate and interconnected for various activities. A wide space full of variuos …
(John Pavelka– flickr/creative commons license) Foreign residents in Pyongyang say that the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel has resumed construction after 16 years. The Orascom group has been active in installing glass panels and installing telecommunications devices. Many call the bleak totalitarian …
Event spaces and offices for a fashion design company accomodate 120 staff, with an executive suite and a private penthouse apartment. This adaptive renewal of an historic Manhattan building preserves the brick facades while digging a deep stairway in the …
St. Gabriel’s by Roberto Chiotti takes on the traditional rectangular form of a Catholic church with a central worship space, spire, thick stone walls, and stained glass. From there, the church invites the public and connects them with nature and …
(sanfamedia.com– flickr/creative commons license) Next to Tianenman Square and The Great Hall of the People sits the National Centre for Performing Arts, one of many brand new grand structures meant to monumentalize China’s move to international prominance. Paul Andreu’s design …
(alex.ch– flickr/creative commons license) The Singapore Managment University has six schools and over 5,000 students. The library, pictured above, was recently completed along with several other sophisticated modern structures. (alex.ch– flickr/creative commons license) (Rudy Herman– flickr/creative commons license) (Rudy …