Architecture News February 2009: Buildings

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Spaladium Centar, Poljud, Croatia
Design: 3LHD
Spaladium Centar Building - Architecture News February 2009
photo : Domagoj Blazevic
Spaladium Centar
With this complex Split will get a sports, entertainment, culture and recreation venue that will activate and reaffirm the northern part of the Split peninsula. The complex achieves a balance between the low-lying main area and the tower’s verticality. The agreement between the horizontal and vertical is in its composition and urban planning set in order to place the location with special importance.

Ravensbourne College, London, England, UK
Design: Foreign Office Architects
Ravensbourne College London
photograph © Benedict Luxmoore
Ravensbourne College
The new building is in giddy proximity to the Dome/O2/North Greenwich Arena, which sets up an unavoidable clash of scale and geometry. The relatively standard programme could have produced a building that could not converse let alone compete with its neighbour. FOA’s design blurs the internal arrangements behind a homogenous façade, much as the Dome does, but in a very different, very confident and curiously complementary way.

Battersea Power Station News : Rafael Viñoly

Neues Museum Berlin complete : David Chipperfield Architects

Shenzhen 4 Tower in 1 Competition : Steven Holl Architects

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 : Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa

Czech National Library : Future Systems

Vdara Hotel : Rafael Viñoly

ARIA Resort & Casino : Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

Giorgio Armani New York store : Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas

Sverre Fehn : dies

Music Theatre Graz : UNStudio

Randers Museum of Art : 3XN

EMPAC Troy : Grimshaw

Westerdok Apartment Building : MVRDV

Boston Harbor Garage towers : KPF

Designed by Erick van Egeraat : new company EMEM IOB

German Skyscrapers : new page

Headquarter of China Insurance Group Shenzhen : COOP HIMMELB(L)AU

Horsens Masterplan : Schmidt Hammer Lassen

Mary Rose Museum : Wilkinson Eyre Architects

Regium Waterfront : Zaha Hadid Architects

Tokyo Matsuya Unity : Hugo Kohno

Anfa Place : Foster + Partners

Daimler Headquarters Stuttgart : 3XN Entry

La Gardunya Barcelona : Estudio Carme Pinós

Giorgio Armani New York : Massimiliano Fuksas Architects

Kuala Lumpur office tower : Kohn Pedersen Fox

SHELL villa : Kotaro Ide / ARTechnic architects

Bird Island Malaysia : Zoka Zola

University of Economics & Business Vienna Design : Estudio Carme Pinós

Herold Apartments Paris : Jakob+MacFarlane Architectes

FRAC Centre Orléans : Jakob+MacFarlane Architectes

House 1 in Penafiel : Cláudio Vilarinho

McGill University Schulich School of Music added : Saucier + Perrotte

East Village Masterplan Calgary : Broadway Malyan

Openhouse Los Angeles added : XTEN Architecture

Architecture News Jan 2009

Hotel Puerta America

Website: Architectural Walking Tours

Mies van der Rohe Awards

Alvar Aalto Medal

Emirates Stadium

Buildings / photos for the World Architecture News 2009 page welcome