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RIBA East Awards Winners 2018

A women’s homeless shelter in Southend-on-Sea, a bed and breakfast near the Suffolk coast and a Jewish cemetery in Bushey are amongst eleven buildings to win one of this year’s RIBA East Awards.

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Los Angeles

SCI-Arc Events 2018, Los Angeles

Environment[al], at the SCI-Arc Gallery, curated by Herwig Baumgartner and Marcelyn Gow, featuring work of architects, designers and landscape architects including Izaskun Chinchilla, Enric Ruiz Geli, Carme Pinós, Wolf Prix, Gilles Retsin, and Günther Vogt.

Venice

ReCasting by Alison Brooks Architects

Alison Brooks Architects has created a large-scale, site specific installation that simulates the critical freespaces of their work in housing as four inhabitable ‘totems’: Threshold, Inhabited Edge, Passage, and Roofspace, inviting exploration.

Vancouver

G’day House in Vancouver

McLeod Bovell Modern Houses designed The G’Day House for an Australian ex-patriate family, who requested a home that would support a relaxed attitude toward daily life and would help them re-connect with a warm-weather lifestyle.

Venice

Venice Architecture Tours: Walking Guide

Our Venetian guided tours are all tailored to suit each booking we do not allow for bookings to be joined up. Our guided tours in Venice are all exclusive to each client.

Riccardo Blumer Installations at Venice Architecture Biennale 2018

Riccardo Blumer Installations at Venice Biennale

Installations Wall and Space result from work developed in USI Mendrisio Academy of architecture: all the works investigate, through automatic movements, the Freespace extreme conditions.

Latteria Diary Store Building in Italy by Piuarch

Latteria Sociale Valtellina, Lombardy – Piuarch

Piuarch’s Valtellina Diary Store selected for “Arcipelago Italia. Projects for the future of the country’s interior territories”, by curator Mario Cucinella for the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, promoted by the MiBACT.

Clichy-Montfermeil metro station building interior by EMBT

Weaving Architecture by Benedetta Tagliabue

The poetic structure is composed by various elements intertwined in two levels. The higher level is built with American red oak modules and the lower one with steel modules; both are woven with fibre glass thread of different colours, blurring boundaries.

Australian Pavilion in Venice building design

Venice Architecture News: Venetian Buildings

Venice architecture news – Alison Brooks Architects will exhibit at La Biennale di Venezia, International Architecture Exhibition, from 26 May, curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara.

Columbia GSAPP

Dean Amale Andraos of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Columbia GSAPP) announced the appointment of Andrés Jaque as the new Director of the Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design program effective June 1, 2018.

Esquimalt House in Vancouver

McLeod Bovell Modern Houses designed the Esquimalt house is situated on an steep and unusually wide site with significant views of downtown Vancouver, the Lion’s Gate Bridge and Burrard Inlet.

Ellipsicoon Pavilion by Ben van Berkel / UNStudio

The Ellipsicoon pavilion design by Ben van Berkel / UNStudio is a space for the mind, for moments of ephemeral escape, for rumination or for simply being, for Revolution Precrafted Propertiesg.

Norman Foster Foundation Madrid

Norman Foster Foundation presents the On Cities Workshop exploring the premise that emerging urban innovations can create more livable, entrepreneurial communities and dramatically reduce resources consumed by cities, in a week-long event hosted in the Madrid headquarters.

New Macallan Distillery building on Speyside interior lighting

New Macallan Distillery Building, Speyside, Scotland

The design references the dynamic light qualities found in the local landscape and the world’s leading single malt whisky that is produced on the site, while shaping a unique experience of the complex distilling process at the heart of the brand.

Stradella Residence in Bel-Air, Los Angeles

SAOTA’s first completed project in Los Angeles, Stradella, is a remodel of an existing 1970’s house on a beautiful promontory in Bel Air.

Bodrum Loft Turkey by Tabanlioğlu Architects

Bodrum Loft Wins The Plan Award 2018

With it’s Hotel & Resort Project ‘Bodrum Loft’, located in the province of Muğla in the hills of the Turkish coast, Tabanlioğlu Architects was able to create a perfect interaction of nature und modern architecture.

Lin'an Sports and Culture Center building

Lin’an Sports and Culture Center, Hangzhou

Following geomorphic the building form nestles in contour lines, responding to the surrounding mountains on the overall urban level, like a green vein.

Do We Need Libraries?

“Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism”, said Neil Gaiman: back in my school days I was a regular visitor to the library, but when was the last time I visited a library to borrow a book? It must be over two decades ago, so clearly I don’t value libraries. But I do, I think, just somehow they have slipped me by.

Arcs and Squares Housing in Berlin

Designed by TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten the new residential ensemble was developed on a former gap between the two streets Alte Schönhauser Straße and Rückerstraße closing now the block perimeter.