LIBBY'S BAR

LIBBY'S BAR

All that racing around the city to see the latest launches during the London Design Festival is bound to be thirsty work, so in response, the lovely Gallery Libby Sellers will be setting up ‘L Bar’, outside the Andaz Hotel. The pop-…
01 Sep 10 | Architecture
A CITY AFLOAT

A CITY AFLOAT

We've just heard that the placement of final pilings (some 4,536 piling elements - the equivalent of almost 100km of steel) for Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi has been completed. Which gives us a good excuse to post these beautiful renderings of the fi…
24 Aug 10 | Architecture
CITY PARK

CITY PARK

Foster + Partners’ masterplan for West Kowloon Cultural District, on a reclaimed harbour-front site, has just been launched in Hong Kong. At the heart of their proposal, named ‘City Park’ is a 23-hectare park and green avenue which w…
20 Aug 10 | Architecture

NEWS

A TOWERING WINNER

Steven Holl Architects has received the 2010 North Norwegian Architecture Prize for the Knut Hamsun Center in Hamar…
16 Jul 10 | Architecture

RECORD BREAKER

The Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center officially opened last night in Astana, Kazakhstan. The opening included a g…
06 Jul 10 | Architecture

SIZE AND MATTER

The London Design Festival has just announced that David Chipperfield and Paul Cocksedge are to create landmark inst…
24 Jun 10 | Architecture

WOODLAND IDYLL

Villa Nyberg by Göteborg firm Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture is a 156 square metre home situated by a lake in a…
18 Jun 10 | Architecture

FAB LAB SOLAR

The Fab Lab Solar House, developed by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia is currently in Madrid, ta…
17 Jun 10 | Architecture

IN MEMORY

Milanese architecture offfice AquiliAlberg have revealed their Grossmarkthalle Memorial Site competition proposal alo…
08 Jun 10 | Architecture
ROCK HOUSE

ROCK HOUSE

We recently spotted his summer house on the coast of Vestfold in southern Norway in the Private Houses category for the upcoming World Architecture Festival …
13 Aug 10 | Architecture
LIVE AND WORK

LIVE AND WORK

This spectacular building is the work of Japanese firm Eastern Design Office and is a residential and office space project in Takarazuka in the Hyogo prefec…
11 Aug 10 | Architecture
CONCRETE CURVES

CONCRETE CURVES

As workshops go, we'd say this is pretty much up there. It's a project by Greek architecture firm A31, who nestled the structure amongst the olive, oleand…
04 Aug 10 | Architecture
SUMMER CAMP

SUMMER CAMP

Villa Mecklin by Finnish practice Huttunen-Lipasti-Pakkanen Architects is a bit of a dream retreat. Located in the tranquility of the Finnish archipelago,…
29 Jul 10 | Architecture
WILD WATCHTOWER

WILD WATCHTOWER

Construction work has recently begun on this unusual structure - a customs checkpoint on the Georgian border with Turkey at the shore of the Black Sea. De…
28 Jul 10 | Architecture
TRI SKATE

TRI SKATE

German architecture practice MBA/S Associates have designed this skatepark and youth club in Stuttgart, Germany. Conceived as a combination of the three p…
23 Jul 10 | Architecture