RIBA recently selected The Study Centre at The Møller Centre in Cambridge, UKas a regional winner of the prestigious annual RIBA architecture awards. The Study Centre was opened in 2007 and designed by London-based architects DSDHA. Winners of the Regional and European Awards are put forward for the Stirling Prize for Architecture, which is announced in October. The Architects Journal commented ..
Ginseng Chicken Architecture, a promising new firm, has proposed a design for the National Wildflower Center in Liverpool. The science center, which provides a variety of activities such as plant production areas and facilities for seed processing, “will inspire people to visit the center to learn about the relationship between nature, mathematics and physics…it will provide an operational hub f..
Architects: Yazdani Studio Location: La Jolla, California, USA Client: University of California, San Diego Project Team: Mehrdad Yazdani, Design Principal; Craig Hamilton, AIA, LEED AP, Project Principal; Ron Benson, Project Manager; Mark Piaia, AIA, Project Architect; John Chan, Designer, Yan Krymsky, Designer, Manson Fung, Designer, Tommy Yuen, Designer; Jim Peshl, QA/QC, Jack Poulin, IIDA Int..
German practice Kadawittfeldarchitektur have completed a kindergarten in Sighartstein near Salzburg, Austria, clad with metal elements designed to look like blades of grass. This green ornamentation shelters the upper floor of the two-storey building and is made of powder-coated aluminium. The building houses a kindergarten on the ground floor with access to the gardens and floor-to-ceiling wind..
Architecture: Morphosis Architects Location: Pasadena, California, USA Project Manager: Kim Groves Job Captain: Salvador Hidalgo Project Architect: David Rindlaub Project Designers: Martin Summers, Shanna Yates Project Team: Irena Bedenikovic, Pavel Getov, Debbie Lin, Kristina Loock, David Rindlaub Project Assistants: Patrick Dunn-Baker with Adam Bressler, Laura Foxman, Brock Hinze, Amy Kwok, Hu..
Architects: Luis Izquierdo W., Antonia Lehmann S.B., Rodrigo Searle G. Structural engineering: Luis Soler P. y Asociados Main contractor: Nahmías Location: Calle Alvarez Nº 2360,Viña del Mar, Chile Plot area: 17.169m2 Built area: 4.439m2 Project: 1997 Construction: 1997 Casa González, Santiago-Chile, Casa Guerrero-Radic, Cachagua-Chile. Ampliación Fundación DUOC Viña del Mar-Chile. En: XIII Bien..
Barcelona-based H Arquitectes have completed School Gym 704 in Barberà del Vallès, Spain. Commissioned by the city council of Barberà del Vallès, School Gym 704 is a prefabricated, prism shaped building with a sloping roof. The gym’s design includes a porch which provides access to the changing rooms and an outdoor running track for the children’s education centre. The structure of the gym is ma..
Architects: Saucier + Perrotte architectes Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Project team: Alain Desforges, Andrew Butler, Thomas Balaban, Anna Bendix, Nathalie Cloutier, Dominique Dumais, Eric Dupras, Louis-Philippe Frappier, Darrell de Grandmont, Louis-Charles Lasnier, Christine Levine, Jean-Francois Mathieu, Claudio Nunez, Benjamin Rankin, Pierre-Alexandre Rheaume, Samantha Schneider Str..
Holland Park School, due for completion in 2012, is a landmark education scheme within the Kensington conservation area adjacent to Holland Park in London. It will provide accommodation for 1,500 students aged between 11 and 18, and over 100 staff. The site benefits from excellent public transport links and will serve as a social and educational hub. Extended operating hours will enable the Kens..
KHR Architects wins competition for new school, leisure space and library in Ørestad City KHR architects won the competition for a new school, leisure space and library in Ørestad City with consulting engineers WSP Group Cenergia Energy Consult and Bisgaard Landscape Architects ApS. They won over Witraz architects and architects Henning Larsen. The reasons for the choice of architects KHR for th..