(yellow book– flickr/creative commons license) Ellis Williams Architects converted the Baltic Flour Mill into an art museum, at a cost of £50m. It was completed in 2002. The Gateshead Millennium Bridge by Wilkinson Eyre crosses the River Tyne to reach …
Month: August 2015
Foster and Partners, Buro Happold, Mott MacDonald and Arup designed the Sage Gateshead on the River Tyne in Quays, England. It was completed in 2004 at a cost of £70 million. The blobby curvatured building provides musical education, performance and …
(Hugo Pardo Kuklinski– flickr/creative commons license) Santiago Calatrava designed the Hau da Ysios upetegia for the Bodegas and Bebidas group winery in Laguardia, Spain. It was completed in 2000. The blocks of metallic roof ripple as they stretch across the …
(ahisgett– flickr/creative commons license) The 800 year old cattle market at Smithfield London was moved to Copenhagen Fields, Islington in 1852. Sir Horace Jones designed the Victorian Central Market in 1868. It cost £993,816. It has cast iron elliptical arches …
(scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) Itsuko Hasegawa designed the Shiogama City Children’s Center, completed in 1998. More Info (scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) (scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) (scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) (scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) (scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) (scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) …
Saucier + Perrotte of Montreal designed the Perimeter Institute (PI) in Waterloo Ontario, completed in 2004. The thick slate-black outer facade contrast the opacity of the glass facades on the north and west sides. The $50 million design evokes digital …
(Ted and Jen– flickr/creative commons license) Sidney Stott and W.W. Gibbings designed the original Fort Dunlop factory in the 1920s. Hazel Rounding and landscape architect Martha Schwartz designed the developed building, completed in 2006. The factory was converted to office …
(TenSafeFrogs– flickr/creative commons license) Hiroshi Hara designed the Umeda Sky Building 梅田スカイビル in the Umeda district of Kita-ku, Osaka City Japan. The 173 m tall building was completed in 1993. Two towers are linked by criss-crossing skyways, with a urban …
Richard Rogers and Van KercKhove B.V.B.A., Ove Arup & Partners and landscape designer Wirtz International designed the new courthouse justitiepaleis for Antwerp, completed in 2006. The soaring spires in this £86m project are pointed with a east-west orientation to catch …
John Honer, Theo Crosby, John Honer and other various architects designed the Brutalist Barbican Centre, which opened in 1982 north of the City of London, England. The complex includes music halls for the London Symphony Orchestra and other groups, exhibition …