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Architecture News 2015

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Architecture News from 2015

29 Dec 2015
Oliv Commercial Building, Hong Kong
Design: THEO TEXTURE Architects
OLIV Causeway Bay Hong Kong - Architecture News 2015
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Oliv Building

24 Dec 2015
The Gamble House in Pasadena Celebrates Milestone
Gamble House Pasadena - Architecture News 2015
photo : Alexander Vertikoff
The Gamble House by Charles and Henry Greene
January 14, 2016 is the 50th Anniversary of the gift of this celebrated American residence from the Gamble family to the City of Pasadena and the University of Southern California.

23 Dec 2015
The Castlereagh Apartments, Sydney, NSW, Australia
The Castlereagh Apartments - Architecture News 2015
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The Castlereagh Apartments
This residential building has facades characterised by winter gardens. The design balances openness and solidity. Most of the façade is clad in adjustable metal louvre screens in a copper tone, providing shading and screening balconies.

15 Dec 2015
Grimshaw’s first commercial building in Melbourne
Architects: Grimshaw
699 Bourke Street - Architecture News 2015
photograph : John Gollings
Grimshaw’s first commercial building in Melbourne
The building is the new office of AGL Energy Limited, designed to accommodate 1500 employees.

9 Dec 2015
160 Leroy Apartment Building in The West Village, New York, USA
Design: Ian Schrager & Herzog & de Meuron
160 Leroy - Architecture News 2015
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160 Leroy Apartment Building in The West Village
A New International Style for Residential Living and What Could Be The Last Opportunity To Own A New Home On The Water In The West Village

11 Oct 2015
Red Road Flats Demolition News, Scotland
Red Road Flats Glasgow - Architecture News 2015
photo © Tom Manley
Red Road Flats Demolition
Botched Demolition Of Glasgow Towers Leaves Two Of The Six Buildings Standing.
Back in April 2014 Commonwealth Games organisers dropped the demolition of the Red Road flats from the Glasgow 2014 opening ceremony. Five of the blocks were to be brought down at the start of the Games in July.

29 Sep 2015
Zinc House in Lymington, England
Design: OB Architecture
Zinc House - Architecture News 2015
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Zinc House in Lymington
photograph : Martin Gardner, martingardner.com
The architects were “given the kind of brief most young aspiring practices dream of: to design a contemporary house in a wonderful location overlooking the sea.

28 Sep 2015
Young Street Campus for Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England
Design: Richard Murphy Architects
Young Street Campus - Architecture News 2015
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Young Street Campus Buildings
Richard Murphy Architects has completed the final phase of development at Anglia Ruskin University’s new Young Street Campus in Cambridge.

Architecture News from 2014

Triumph Pavilion Exhibition
Dream Pavilion London 2
Dream Pavilion
ArchTriumph – Triumph of Architecture & Design Triumph Pavilion 2014: Dream Pavilion by IPT Architects
Sponsor: ArchTriumph
Exhibition (During the London Festival of Architecture): 05 June – 30 June 2014
Location: Museum Gardens, Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London E2 9PA
Entry: Free Admission
Opening Times: Gardens open daily

3 Jun 2014
Mariners Harbor Library, Staten Island, New York, USA
Design: A*PT Architecture
Mariners Harbor Library
photograph : Naha Kubota
Mariners Harbor Library
The newest branch of the New York Public Library is located on Staten Island. The firm was commissioned for this 10,000 square-foot project by the Department of Design and Construction of the City of New York (DDC).

3 Jun 2014
JustWood House, Santa Maria de Palautordera, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Design: Alventosa Morell Arquitectes
Just Wood
photograph : Adrià Goula
JustWood House
The bioclimatic study of this exact site is crucial to decide the strategies to follow in this design, in order to improve the comfort of the dwelling and to achieve the energy demands to be a passivhaus.

14 May 2014
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19 May 2014
Bukit Timah House in Singapore
Design: Wallflower Architecture + Design
Bukit Timah Residence
photograph : Marc Tey Ge Wai
Bukit Timah House in Singapore
This house sits on high ground, and the rear of the site has wonderful views overlooking the greener and more affluent residential addresses in Singapore.

Opening of National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion
Design: Snøhetta
National September 11 Memorial
On May 15, 2014, President Obama will be present for the dedication of the National September 11 Memorial Museum & Pavilion at the World Trade Center site. The Pavilion and Museum will open to the public for the first time on May 21, 2014.

15 Apr 2014
New Istanbul Airport Building
New Istanbul Airport Building
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New Istanbul Airport Terminal
The Istanbul Grand Airport will be a modern and highly functional, with a unique sense of place. The architectural design of the terminal is closely linked to the area’s unique character and will act as a stunning gateway to Istanbul and Turkey.

4 Apr 2014
Casino de Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Design: Menkès Shooner Dagenais Letourneux Architects / Provencher Roy Architects
Casino de Montréal 1
Casino de Montréal Building
The consortium of Menkès Shooner Dagenais Letourneux Architects / Provencher Roy Architects have signed an important retrofit project of the Casino de Montréal.

House of Music
House of Music in Aalborg
photograph © Hélène Mogensen de Monléon
e-architect attended the opening event for House of Music in Aalborg, Denmark, designed by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, and talked with leading architect Wolf Prix about the building – new photos + review. 30 Mar

City of Dreams
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
City of Dreams Hotel Tower
image courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects
City of Dreams Hotel Tower – 29 Mar 2014
The fifth hotel tower at City of Dreams combines dramatic public spaces and generous guest rooms with innovative engineering and formal cohesion.

Barrel House Tavern in Sausalito
Design: CCS Architecture
Barrel House Tavern
photo : Paul Dyer, from CCS Architecture
Barrel House Tavern – 22 Mar 2014
CCS Architecture receives a IIDA Northern California Chapter Honor Award for this building. Located on one of the most scenic waterfront lots in Sausalito, the restaurant features an enormous Carrera marble bar, with breathtaking views of the Bay.

551W21 New York by Foster + Partners
551W21 New York
photo: © Michael Moran/OTTO
551W21 Building – 20 Mar 2014
Scott Resnick and Brown Harris Stevens open the sales office for 551W21, the new 19-story luxury condominium in West Chelsea by architects Foster + Partners. Designed by Lee Mindel of Shelton, Mindel & Associates, the sales office meticulously presents the signature interior elements of Foster + Partners’ building design.

Alberto Campo Baeza News
Alberto Campo Baeza
photograph from Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza
The architect Alberto Campo Baeza has been elected as a member of the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts.
Alberto Campo Baeza has been Professor of Design Projects at the ETSAM School of Architecture in Madrid since 1986 and is an architect of great renown, both in his native Spain and worldwide.

Sustainable Floating Residence
Floating House Exterior 1
The Floating house was designed for French developer H2ORIZON, that specialize in construction of floating structures, by Singapore-based architect Dymitr Malcew.
The main goal of the project was to design a house that impacts surroundings in a most minimal way, but at the same time offers flexibility and out of the box living experience.

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2014 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival
New images of The Immersery: Festival Kitchen, Bar and Raingarden
The Immersery, Melbourne
photograph : Bonnie Savage
Melbourne Food and Wine Festival Hub – 4 Mar 2014
A cloud-like structure suspended above a floating bar and open-kitchen restaurant on the banks of Melbourne’s Yarra River form the spectacular centrepiece of the 2014 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, California, USA
Design: SO – IL
Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis
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Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art – Mar 1 2014
New York-based architectural design studio SO – IL announces the groundbreaking for this new museum of art at the University of California in Davis.

Oceanfront House in Crimea, Ukraine
Design: Robin Monotti Architects
Yacht House Ukraine
photo : Ioana Marinescu
Seafront House in Crimea – 1 Mar 2014
RMA won 1st prize in the competition for the best interior design project in the modern style in Ukraine 2013 with their project Yacht House. The architectural competition was organized by the Dom i Interier magazine and received 965 entries.

A House Vaucluse, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Design: Bruce Stafford Architects
A House Vaucluse
photo © Karl Beath
House in Vaucluse – 19 Feb 2014
This home is situated on a narrow site with waterfront at one short end and parkland along the long northerly side.

House LS, Belgium
Design: dmvA
Architecture News 2015 - House LS Belgium
photo © Frederik Vercruysse
Wemmel Residence – 19 Feb 2014
The municipality of Wemmel, situated on the outskirts of Brussels, is well known for its green areas with their monumental villas of the upper class. After a search of several years, the principal saw a house situated in one of those quarters.

DC Tower 1
Design: Dominique Perrault with Hoffmann and Janz
DC Tower 1 Vienna
photo © Michael Nagl
DC Tower Vienna – 11 Feb 2014
With its 60 floors this tower is the tallest building in Austria. The renowned French architect Dominique Perrault is responsible for the spectacular architecture with an extraordinary ‘folded’ facade.

Residential Building in Berlin by Frank Gehry
Design: Gehry Partners, LLP
Architecture News 2015 - Alexanderplatz Tower Berlin
image : Gehry Partners, LLP
Residential Building in Berlin by Frank Gehry – 10 Feb 2014
A design by Frank Gehry, the architect responsible for the Guggenheim Museum in the Spanish city of Bilbao, will be used for a building on Berlin’s Alexanderplatz that will be Germany’s tallest apartment tower, reports Bloomberg. The 39-floor property will have a height of 150 m (490 ft) and contain about 300 apartments, a hotel and a spa, Hines said today in a statement.

Madrona House
Design: CCS ARCHITECTURE
Architecture News 2015 - Madrona House
photograph : Aaron Leitz; Seattle, WA
Madrona House in Seattle – 8 Feb 2014
This house was designed as a second home for a Bay Area couple as a summer retreat to spend the warm summer months away from the fog in San Francisco. Built on a steep slope and a narrow lot, this 4000 square foot home is spread over 3 floors, with the master, guest and kids bedroom on the ground floor, and living spaces on the upper floor to take advantage of the views.

Goodwood Residence in Singapore
Design: WOHA
Goodwood Residence
photo : Patrick Bingham-Hall
Goodwood Residence Singapore – 1 Feb 2014
Set amidst an enclave of black and white houses just off the prime Orchard/Scotts Road area, and against a verdant 20-hectare backdrop of greenery, the 210-unit Goodwood Residence is conceived on a macro scale as a breathing space – a rarity in high density urbanised Singapore – and an extension of the Goodwood Hill tree conservation area that it shares a boundary of 150m with. Articulated as two 12-storey L-shaped blocks, the 2.5-hectare development ‘dialogues with the hill’.

Reforma Towers México City
Design: Richard Meier & Partners Architects
Architecture News 2015 - Reforma Towers
image : Richard Meier & Partners Architects
Reforma Towers
Richard Meier & Partners is proud to announce their new project in Mexico City. The new Reforma Towers will become a dynamic mixed-use development composed of two towers with offices, a hotel, retail space, restaurants and a fitness center.

Honeycomb Building in the Bahamas
Design: BIG + HKS + MDA
Architecture News 2015 - Honeycomb Building
image : BIG
Honeycomb Building Bahamas – 27 Jan 2014
BIG + HKS + MDA have unveiled the design for the new Honeycomb building and its adjacent public plaza in The Bahamas – a 175,000 ft² (ca. 16,000 m²) residential building with a private pool on each balcony overlooking the marina.

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Low-cost Housing for the Elderly
Architecture News 2015 - American Housing
image © Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, 2008
13 Oct 2013 by Joel Solkoff
Joel Solkoff looks at housing access issues, from the low proportion of housing that is wheel chair accessible to the requirement of elderly individuals to spiritually uplifting laces such as museums.

Morgan Library and Museum Disability Architecture
re Disability Access in Renzo Piano’s J.P. Morgan Library and Museum Building, New York City, USA
Architecture News 2015 - Morgan Library and Museum
photo © Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery
24 Aug 2013 by Joel Solkoff
When I began this column I wrote: “The future of architecture is rapidly requiring you to redesign the world to meet the requirements of the largest generation in world history. Ours is an aging population in the process of developing disabilities–but a generation with the determination, education, political clout, and for many the wealth to live independently none-the-less.”

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