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Projects by Architects
Shenyang Civic Sports Center and 2013 National Games Arena by EMERGENT Tom Wiscombe
Los Angeles-based practice EMERGENT Tom Wiscombe has shared with us its competition-winning design for the new Shenyang Civic Sports Center and 2013 National Games Arena in China's Northeast. The 123,000 sqm facility combines a sports civic center, a national games taekwondo arena and a swimming are...Read Entire Story
Bamboo School by Eleena Jamil Architect
Eleena Jamil Architect completes rustic school with bamboo roof in the Philippines Located at Nato High School in Camarines-Sur of the Bicol Peninsula in the Philippines, the project is conceived as a response to the need for a new classroom prototype that is able to withstand strong winds. The pro...Read Entire Story
Musheireb Master Plan by mossessian & partners
Mossessian & Partners have won the MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects “Overall Winner category” Award for their element of the Musheireb scheme, a sustainable downtown regeneration project in Doha, Qatar for the Dohaland development group. Qatari development company ...Read Entire Story
Ecological Resort in Dominica by BURO II
This is a sustainable design for a future development that possibly will be built. BURO II already built a project of this amplitude in Guangzhou (China) and won with this ‘Baiyun International Convention Centre’ an international prize at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona in 2...Read Entire Story
Dellis Cay: Starchitects in the Turks & Caicos archipielago
Super star architects arrive to the Caribbean, specifically to Dellis Cay,a 560-acre island at the Turks & Caicos archipelago. The project, set to be completed by 2010, will feature works by Shigeru Ban, David Chipperfield, Carl Ettensperger, Zaha Hadid, Kengo Kuma, Piero Lissoni, and Chad Oppen...Read Entire Story
Casa Kimball by Rangr Studio
A New York based client commissioned Rangr Studio to design a Caribbean get-away large enough to accommodate his family and groups of friends. Located on the rural North coast of the Dominican Republic, the design sought to create a contemporary house within the basic construction means and material...Read Entire Story
Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s New City of Westminster College
The new City of Westminster College in London which opened to students on January 10, 2011 is the first completed building by Danish Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects in the UK, soon to be followed by The Learning Zone – Library and Learning Centre in Sheffield and the University of Aberde...Read Entire Story
SFSU’s Mashouf Performing Arts Center by Michael Maltzan Architecture
San Francisco State University unveiled designs for the Mashouf Performing Arts Center, a 242,150 square foot state-of-the-art facility that will transform creative arts education and performing arts at SF State and throughout the region. The new performing arts center will house SF State's programs...Read Entire Story
2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing by Populous
The masterplan for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, which has been designed by Populous, the architecture and design practice behind the London 2012 Olympic Stadium, will see over 189 hectares or 3 million sq m of new floor space built into the city, including several public buildings...Read Entire Story
San Lucas School by Francisco Izquierdo & Maria Jose Varas
The San Lucas School is a subsidized private school located near the intersection of two urban highways in Lo Espejo, Santiago, Chile. The school is owned by a Chilean Foundation, focused in giving education of excellence to kids with scarcity of resources, using governmental subsidies and private d...Read Entire Story
House on a hill by Anastasia Arquitetos Residencia Vila Castela, Nova Lima, Brazil
Built into a sloped site (30 degrees) in the city of Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, the house designed by Anastasia Arquitetos uses dramatic cantilevers to emphasise the extremity of its position. The constructed area is 650 sq m, divided into three floors: the basement, where the owners can enjoy leisure...Read Entire Story
Prefab Home On Cusabo Island by Carter Woollen
Sun screens, wide overhangs and louvered doors provide shade protection. Designed by Seattle-based Woollen Studio and built by Park City, UT-based EcoSteel, the Cusabo Island home is a prefab wonder. Engineered to exceed FEMA flood zone code requirements, with helical foundations, a steel structure...Read Entire Story
Wooden House Extension by Wim Goes Architectuur
The bucolic setting of this lovely private refuge is located in a tiny hamlet in the Flemish district of Belgium, about 10 kilometers from the country’s third-largest city of Gent. Gent-based architecture studio Wim Goes Architectuur designed the beautiful extension to this residence. The wood...Read Entire Story
St. Barts Residence by Barnes Coy Architect
The house designed by Barnes Coy Architects is sited on a high, thin peninsula, affording 270 degree views from South through West to North. The long axis of the house is perpendicular to the axis of the peninsula, aligning it with sunrise and sunset. The main space is open from North to South, with...Read Entire Story
AirMaster Gallery by Urbana
Galeria AirMaster designed by Urbana, and located in the Puerto Nuevo Design District of San Juan, is the flagship store for the AirMaster brand. AirMaster is Puerto Rico’s largest and oldest producer of aluminum windows and doors, and a local curtain-wall specialist. This adaptive reuse proje...Read Entire Story
Disaster-Proof Bamboo Housing
These unique bamboo houses are part of a much larger disaster resistant community concept for the Philippines designed by a group of Indian architects - Komal Gupta, Vasanth Packirisamy, Vikas Sharma, Sakshi Kumar and Siripurapu Monish Kumar. Images Courtesy of Vasanth Packirisamy and Team &nb...Read Entire Story
SKYCOURT by Keiji Ashizawa Design
SKYCOURT by Keiji Ashizawa Design is an ambitious renovation project that involved transforming a Japan "bubble era" house into a modern home connected to the city and the sunlight. The house is located in a quiet residential area, a couple of blocks away from Tokyo's business district. Th...Read Entire Story
UCSF Stem Cell Building by Rafael Vinoly Architects
The Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine Building at the University of California (UCSF) hosted a grand opening to celebrate the completion of a challenging construction project. Designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects with executive architect the Smith Group and DPR Construction, the new facili...Read Entire Story
Guyane Memory Center by D3 Architectes
Guyane’s Memory Center is a complex project by D3 Architectes which provides a central base for the research and documentation of the history of the local area. The design firm refers to the concept as ‘a store for precious information’ which ‘holds a deep and resonant identi...Read Entire Story
House in Brazil by Progetto
This house, by Gisele Taranto and Izabela Lessa of Progetto Arquitetura, is situated in a rich neighborhood in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Recently completed in 2010, the home is an L-shape that is divided into two sections. The first section is where the leisurely activities are done (...Read Entire Story
House in Paco de Arcos by Jorge Mealha Arquitecto
Portuguese studio Jorge Mealha Arquitecto have completed a house in Lisbon, Portugal, featuring clusters of rectangular volumes and courtyards. Called House in Paço de Arcos, the building sits on a sloping site and the volumes have been arranged in such a way to maximise the amount of sun...Read Entire Story
The Cocoon Hotel by Dodeca Architects
Cocoon Hotel by Dodeca Architects A "soft" hotel designed to shelter guests from a "hard" industrial environment, the new hotel not only provide accommodations but an expanse of new green spaces for the public to enjoy. The new hotel also connects to its sister hotel - a recycle...Read Entire Story
Langfang Eco-Smart City Master Plan
The Langfang Eco-Smart City Master Plan was recently honored with the only 2010 Merit Award for Urban Design by the AIA Hong Kong chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The urban plan for Langfang was noted as a transformative model of ecological urban redevelopment that calls attention to...Read Entire Story
W Hotels Retreat & Spa – Vieques Island by Patricia Urquiola
W Hotels Worldwide, the hotel category buster and industry innovator, has unveiled W Retreat & Spa – Vieques Island. W Vieques is located only eight miles off the southeast coast of Puerto Rico and opens as the second W Retreat in the world, following the successful opening of W Retreat &a...Read Entire Story
National Gallery of Greenland by BIG
National Gallery of Greenland in Nuuk by BIG 'National Gallery of Geenland' by Bjarke Ingels Group in Nuuk, Greenland All images courtesy Bjarke Ingels Group A partnership between Bjarke Ingels Group, TNT Nuuk, Ramboll Nuuk and Arkitekti has been chosen by a unanimous jury panel as the winner...Read Entire Story
Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Pop Music Center Proposal
Atlanta-based Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects have shared with us their entry for the Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Pop Music Center competition. Project Description from the Architects: The Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center evokes a giant vessel moored at ...Read Entire Story
House in Dominican Republic by A-cero Architecture
House in Dominican Republic by A-cero Architecture The benign climate that prevails during the whole year in the Caribbean island, as well as the situation of the plot of 7.000 m2 first coast line, they determine in advance the project executed by A-cero Studio. With a singular architectural idea a...Read Entire Story
House in Ise by Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates
Japanese architecture firm Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates have completed this house in Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan. The project comprises two adjacent volumes with inclined roofs, connected by a central atrium. Large glazed walls inside the house frame views of the surrounding landscape. Li...Read Entire Story
Be Tulum Resort by Sebastian Sas
Perched on a secluded expanse of the luminous Mayan Caribbean, and surrounded by legendary relics of one of the world’s most ancient cultures, Be Tulum’s comfort and tranquility offer the fast track to its guest’s peace of mind. It is the only fullserviced resort in the area featur...Read Entire Story
Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition
Tom Leader Studio Tom Leader, Principal, (TLS) is a landscape architecture and planning practice that seeks to investigate the uniqueness of cities and their landscapes. Community collaboration is central to TLS in civic projects such as the newly-opened 20 acre Railroad Park in downtown Birmingham...Read Entire Story
House PS by TheHeder Partnership
House PS by TheHeder Partnership is the result of an ongoing investigation of the courtyard house typology with all its Mediterranean connotations of climate, shade and intimacy. In this house, the courtyard is designed in section rather than in plan. Placed above the lower ground floor and below th...Read Entire Story
New York’s High Line Sky Park
The High Line Sky Park in New York The new stretch of green space which was the once-abandoned High Line railway is renovated to become a lush public park. Designed to capture the majesty of both nature and NYC’s industrial ruins, the first section of the elevated garden promenade. the High ...Read Entire Story
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ART & DESIGN
Artwork by Linn Olofsdotter
Linn Olofsdotter, from Sweden, has explored many mediums before solidifying her career in the illustration field. After getting her education in both advertising and graphic design in Europe and the US, she moved to Brazil to start up a motion graphics studio along with her husband and creative part...Read Entire Story
Creative London Street Art For a Great Cause
Creative duo Kirsten Rutherford and Lisa Jelliffe from London’s Brothers & Sisters agency has a current poster installation “Making the invisible visible” that hit the streets of London this past weekend. It is a collaboration with the Berlin-based, three-person photographic...Read Entire Story
Artwork by Francoise Nielly
Françoise Nielly’s massive, colorful portraits are delicious to look at. Even more wonderful – and particularly infuriating is to watch her create them. In a beautiful video posted on her site (see below), she, in her confident, strong hand, wields her painting knife shaped like a...Read Entire Story
Installation Art by Gabriel Dawe
Gabriel Dawe's colorful 'Plexus installation is currently showing at the Dallas Contemporary in Texas. The construction is made out of gütermann thread, wood and nails attached at either end to blocks of wood, the effect is like a real-world version of computer generated imagery. Stu...Read Entire Story
Artwork by Theo Altenberg
Theo Altenberg has been active in so many artistic genres that it seems like a simplification to call him a painter. There is an intriguing drama in his oils-on-cardboard that hints to his other talents. In these seemingly random splashes and smears of mixed oily color, the viewer finds him- or h...Read Entire Story
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Interview with Vasco Correia & Patricia Sousa (Camarim)
Vasco Correia and Patricia Sousa are two Portuguese architects who met at the Faculty of Architecture in Lisbon, Portugal. After finishing their studies they headed to Flanders, then to London to learn about architecture and life. After 5 years of experience, they came back to Portugal to set up the...Read Entire Story
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Web Structures on cloud nine in India
West Bengal developer Forum Projects has recruited the world’s leading earthquake engineering specialists to help create its dramatic cloud structure above the Kolkata skyline. Sitting 500ft in the air, ‘Deya’ (which means cloud) will connect the two towers that will make up &lsquo...Read Entire Story
MVRDV Press release Future Towers India
City Corporation Ltd, a leading real estate development corporation in the Indian state of Maharashtra has started construction on the first phase of Amanora Apartment City - Future Towers, designed by MVRDV. The project is located in Pune, India and comprises of 1,068 apartments & public amenit...Read Entire Story
Foster + Partners Selected to Design Master Plan for West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
Foster + Partners has been selected for the design of the 40-hectare master plan for West Kowloon Cultural District. The winning proposal City Park will be a major cultural center for music, performing and visual arts, incorporating public spaces and spaces for Chinese culture, living, working, gall...Read Entire Story
Competition Result for the New Saint-Laurent Sports Complex in Montreal
The Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent announced the winning project of the Québec-wide architecture competition for its future sports complex. Of the four concepts proposed, the jury chose the one submitted by the team Saucier + Perrotte Architectes – Hughes Condon Marler Architects / S...Read Entire Story
Vertical Garden Cleans Air Inside Office Building
Vertical garden and green roof dynamos, Urbanarbolism, have successfully completed another project in collaboration with Paisajismo Urbano, this time an indoor vertical garden in Elche, Spain. The three story indoor garden is considered to be Spain's largest and also works to clear the air of indoor...Read Entire Story
Tel Aviv Mayor keeps residents in the dark about city’s master plan
Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai is promoting a comprehensive master plan for the city, while leaving the media, civil society groups and the city’s own residents in the dark about the plan’s full scope and details. By Jesse Fox Halfway through his third term in power, Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai...Read Entire Story
MVRDV selected to envision 300ha port refurbishment in Caen, France
(Caen, March 1st, 2011) Today the City of Caen, France, announced the architecture teams to work on the refurbishment of a 300ha old industrial area and port, the Caen Peninsula (Presqu’ile de Caen). MVRDV and two other teams have been selected to collaborate for the coming four years on a vis...Read Entire Story
Eight Teams Shortlisted in Multi-Comfort House Competition
The subject of the competition is the creative approach to the concept of energy efficient construction for high rise buildings. The aim is to design a multiple-use tower according to Isover Multi-Comfort House definition and with Passive House components. The new tower should become a leading proje...Read Entire Story
THE JOMOLINE: Guinness World Record
Architecture Caribbean would like to congratulate Jomo Wahtuse who has been awarded the Guinness World Record for the largest steelpan in the world - the Jomoline. His claim for the Largest steel pan / steel drum - Claim Number: 313592 with the Guinness Book fo Records has been successful and confir...Read Entire Story
Revealing Florence Architecture
Set against a scenic and historic backdrop, the Florence Institute of Design International will again offer a unique four-week architectural learning experience for aspiring and professional architects. The course, which will run from June 1 to 30, will usher students though different architectural ...Read Entire Story
Eleven Winners of the 2011 AIA Young Architects Award Announced
Jack Baumann, AIA Baumann promotes architecture as more than just creating physical buildings, but creating relationships with his colleagues, his clients, and his peers, looking toward the future from the impact he makes today. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced the 11 r...Read Entire Story
MoMA PS1 & MAXXI Young Architects Program 2011 - The Winners
The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and the National Museum of XXI Century Arts of Rome just announced Interboro Partners of Brooklyn, NY, as the winner of the 12th annual Young Architects Program in New York, and stARTT, of Rome, as the winner of the first annual YAP_MAXXI Young Architects Program ...Read Entire Story
Ephemeral Architecture: The Fleeting Forms of West African Adobe Mosques
Lawrence Waldron was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. He received his primary school education at Our Lady of Fatima, R.C. School in Laventille and secondary education at College of the Immaculate Conception (St. Mary's College) in Port-of-Spain, before moving to New York in 1985. In 2010, he receiv...Read Entire Story
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