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KEXP Headquarters in Seattle

Design: SkB Architects

The design features amenities tailored to road-weary musicians. After a show, musicians can take advantage of expanded an green room which includes a lounge, shower, and laundry facilities.

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How to Seamlessly Add a Modern Conservatory to Your Home

Planning a room to connect your interior to the garden? Try giving the traditional conservatory a contemporary twist.

London

1 New Burlington Place Offices

A pair of grade II listed Georgian townhouses – one transformed into a retail unit, the other returned to a family home. The project includes 79,000 sqft of office space over 6 floors, 33,000 sqft of retail space over 3 floors, as well as an enhanced public realm and an internal courtyard.

New York

15 Renwick New York City Building

Situated in Hudson Square, between SoHo and Tribeca, this building split typical setback zoning requirements to create slices of green and outdoor space in the building’s upper units. New York City’s strict dormer rule can limit architectural design, but here it launched innovation.

England

Hampshire Passivhaus, Self-Build Home

European oak bespoke joinery is used to highlight interior features including the open tread staircase, recessed handrails, worktops and integrated shelves. Externally, the house is clad in Siberian larch rainscreen cladding, chosen for its straight grain, uniform texture and durability.

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SC Johnson Headquarters Racine, Wisconsin

Free tours of iconic Frank Lloyd Wright architecture at global headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, during the 2017 edition of Chicago Architecture Biennial. SC Johnson’s Administration Building is the only FLW–designed office space still in use today.

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Cultural Centre Stjørdal Building, Norway

Building design by Reiulf Ramstad Architects anchored in and inspired by the history and culture of its location. Its architecture conveys its modern function, giving a rich cultural and architectural experience.

SCI-Arc Events: Lectures + Exhibitions, Los Angeles

The Southern California Institute of Architecture news – SCI-Arc announce its fall 2017 series of public events. Public lectures introduce speakers from a wide cross-section of exciting architects, artists, philosophers and theorists including Oana Stanescu, Carme Pinós and Simon Critchley.

Oceanwide Center San Francisco Building

A 2 million sqft building development comprising two high-rise towers plus new public spaces and pedestrian links through downtown. The buildings are in rapidly changing Transbay Area, close to Market and the financial district. They provide 1.35 million sqft of office space and 650,000 sqft of residential units.

Byron House Nottingham Trent University Reyonobond ACM cladding panels

UK Tower Cladding Tests: High Rise Building Safety

PIR insulation with a wall cladding system, consisting of Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) with a limited combustibility filler ‘comfortably’ passes DCLG full-scale BS 8414 fire test and is cleared for use in buildings above 18 metres.

Chicago Riverwalk

Design: Ross Barney Architects – winner of Outstanding Achievement in Exterior Lighting award ; shortlisted for the prestigious 2017 American Architecture Awards: The Riverwalk offers a variety of opportunities to find the beauty and spirit of the Chicago River. Visitors get an unexpected perspective on the city’s buildings.

Non Architecture Competition

We can consider “Architecture” everything that has already been designed and/or built. That would define a realm of conventional solutions, often repeated in a self-referential system. We imagined a counterpart, a “Non Architecture”.

WPP Hamburg Workspace Strategy

WPP co-locate its agencies and media companies into a new city central workspace. BDG architecture + design provided strategy, concept and developed design for the new WPP Hamburg collocated space accommodating over 850 people.

Sawmill Shelter AA Hooke Park Building

The Saw-mill Shelter, located in the Architectural Association estate, was designed and built by students with the help of the school faculty and Arup engineers. Each lath carries up to two tonnes of tension, demonstrating the remarkable strength of wood.

Leeza SOHO in Beijing

Design: Zaha Hadid Architects – 46-story structure will be world’s tallest atrium at 190m high. Within the Lize Financial Business District – a new business, residential and transport hub adjacent to Financial Road in southwest Beijing – Leeza Soho is located at the intersection of Lines 14 and 16 currently under-construction.

Gateway Plaza Building in Richmond Virginia

With a stunning floor-to-ceiling glass facade and efficiently engineered floorplans that deliver unobstructed, 360-degree views including the scenic James River. The building contains a massive mural of the James River rapids by Mickett/Stackhouse Studios.

Hilltop House in Kingston-upon-Thames

Architects: Coupdeville

Commissioned in 2012, Coupdeville were asked to design a five bedroom house on a large 0.26 acre single plot, while retaining the existing building.

Common Ground High School New Haven Connecticut building

Common Ground High School, New Haven Building

A 14,000 sqft building expanson designed by Gray Organschi Architecture integrates an array of sustainable design features. It weaves into the fabric of farm buildings, combining urban agriculture and sustainable land-management practice in an innovative curriculum.