A Directory of Great Architectures
A Directory of Great Architectures
MIPIM’s largest number of awards won by a single architectural firm. Hong Kong – September, 2011 – International architecture firm, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), is pleased to announce that the firm has won five awards at the annual MIPIM…
The Crystal, the new extension to the financial institution Nykredit, by schmidt hammer lassen architects, has won an Emirates Glass LEAF Award in the category ‘Best Structural Design of the Year’ 2011. By this award, the Emirates Glass LEAF Awards…
The Sliced Porosity Block—the Raffles City development designed by Steven Holl Architects in Chengdu—celebrates its topping out at 123 meters. Located just south of the intersection of the First Ring Road and Ren Min Nan Road, the 3 million square…
MODERNISM IN MINIATURE: POINTS OF VIEW AT THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE RECALLS THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURAL MODEL MAKING. Press Release (Montréal, 15 September 2011) On view at the CCA from 22 September to 8 January 2012, Modernism…
Gustafson Porter’s pylon design Flower Tower has been selected for the National Grid pylon design competition shortlist. Press Release: 14 September 2011 Gustafson Porter reveals shortlisted design for the national Pylon Design Competition Leading landscape architecture practice Gustafson Porter has…
The history of a great project is usually the history of a great client; one who is willing to use architecture and to assume the risks involved in good ideas. The history of the corporate building for BANCODEUNO is a…
As part of a park competition in Kiev – Ukraine, Maxwan resolved a missing gap in the primary pedestrian path. The solution goes beyond merely creating a bridge. It strives to create a signature place, within the park. It avoids…
van der Architects shared with us another completed project called “GroupM”. Description of the project from the architect: This is the design for the reception of GroupM, a group company within the WPP group. Rather than designing a space using…
