London Metropolitan University graduate Charlotte Wilson was awarded Best in Show at London graduate show FreeRange this year for her proposal to convert a bunker into a museum. The existing RAF Bempton bunker in Yorkshire, UK is built into a cliff-side and would be be transformed into a museum celebrating the role of women during war. The bunker would be dug out in areas to reveal its three met..
Architects: Ábalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos Location: Barcelona, Spain Project Director: Iñaki Ábalos Collaborators: Víctor Garzón, Renata Sentkiewicz, Alfonso Miguel, Ismael Martín, Elena Cuerda, Haizea Aguirre Client: Fundació Antoni Tàpies Structure: BOMA (Agustí Obiol, Javier Asensio) Services: AB2, FLUIDSA, PREFIRE Contractor: SAPIC Technical Architect: CASOBI (Eduard Casanovas) Lighting: ..
Architects: Safdie Architects Location: Singapore, Singapore Project Director: Moshe Safdie Executive Architects: Aedas, Pte, Ltd. Structural Engineering: Arup Landscape Design: Peter Walker & Partners Landscape Construction: Peridian International Inc Site Area: 154,938 sqm Project Area: 845,000 sqm Budget: US $5.7 billion Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Courtesy of Safdie Architects Program 1...
Mekano, a team of young Egyptian architects shared with us their proposal for the Piraeus Tower 2010 Competition, for which they received an honorable mention. More images and architect’s description after the break. Our main concept is to convert the building to a landmark through the participation of all the children in the city in the construction of the building where the design comprises cu..
Zaha Hadid Architects have unveiled this design for a performing arts centre in The Hague, the Netherlands. The new centre would house four music and dance institutions in one building clad with horizontal louvres. The design is one of three shortlisted proposals for the site, along with Amsterdam architects RAU and Rotterdam studio Neutelings Riedijk Architecten. The winning project will be ann..
Architects: BFLS Location: Cardiff, Wales Design Team: Jason Flanagan, Paul Bavister, Anne Heucke, Jason Sandy, Armando Elias, Kibwe Tavares Client: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Years (Start-Finish): 2007-2011 Area: 4,400 m2 Photo Credits: Vyonyx Products in this project Facades: Western Red Cedar BFLS won an international design competition in 2007 to design a new building for the Roy..
Former European skateboarding champion and architect Matthias Bauer of MBA/S Associates has designed a skatepark and youth club in Stuttgart, Germany. The park has a 1000 square-metre concrete plaza and bowl area, and will also feature a soon-to-be-added vert-ramp. The vert-ramp will form part of an open-air structure housing the youth club. Here’s more info from Bauer: The skatepark is conceive..
Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects have won a competition to design a new campus for the University College Sealand in Roskilde, Denmark. The campus will be made up of four adjacent volumes, each slightly angled to create a series of sheltered courtyards. The new 14,000 square-metre facilities will be used for existing bachelor programs in social education and social work, health, and teachin..
A few days ago, we shared C. F. Møller Architects‘ winning entry for the Kristiansund Opera and Culture Center entitled Kulturkvartalet. This project shares its joint first place prize with Oslo based architecture and design office Space Group + London based Brisac Gonzalez. The team of Space Group and Brisac Gonzales have designed a 15, 000 m2 opera and cultural house with a 600-seat auditorium..
Ozel Office, a practice based in both LA, California and Istanbul, Turkey, has designed a competition proposal for an Opera House for Izmir, a port town off the Aegean Coast. The competition challenged participants to see architecture as a “catalyst” that could potentially help the city re-center itself as a hub of economic activity and source of cultural significance. The collaborative effort w..
