World Architecture News – September 2013 : Buildings across the Globe, Property Images
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UniCredit Tower Milan, north Italy
Design: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
photo : Giovanni Zanghi
UniCredit Tower Milan
The tower, its sister buildings Porta Nuova Garibaldi Tower B and Porta Nuova Garibaldi Tower C and their podium make up the largest components of Porta Nuova Garibaldi, a mixed-use development north of Milan’s city centre.
University of Iowa Visual Arts Facility, USA
Design: Steven Holl Architects
photograph © Iwan Baan
University of Iowa Visual Arts Facility
One of seventy-nine shortlisted buildings that have won the prestigious 2017 American Architecture Awards ® for the best new buildings designed and constructed by American architects in the U.S. and abroad and by international architects for buildings designed and built in the United States.
27 Sep 2013
National Library of Sejong CityKorea
Design: Samoo Architects & Engineers
photo : Young Chae Park
National Library of Sejong City, Korea
The National Library of Sejong City is the first branch facility of the National Library of Korea and is planned to be built in the Multifunctional Administrative City of Korea, also known as Sejong City.
27 Sep 2013
WKCDA announces Arts Pavilion Design Contest
The West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) is the largest arts and cultural project in Hong Kong to date. Its vision is to create a vibrant cultural quarter for the city, a vital platform for the local arts scene to interact, develop and collaborate, and major facilities to host and produce world-class exhibitions, performances and arts and cultural events. The West Kowloon Arts Pavilion Design Competition seeks a high-quality exhibition and event space building.
West Kowloon Arts Pavilion Design Competition, China : Architecture Contest launched
26 + 25 Sep 2013
Serpentine Sackler Gallery
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
photograph courtesy of Luke Hayes
Serpentine Sackler Gallery Building, Kensington Gardens, London : Zaha Hadid Architects
This building has already been described as “aggressive and banal”, and on our facebook as “Looks like someone melted a giant Ipod and threw it against the side of the existing building. Context-busting, arbitrary shape making, ill proportioned, plastic-finished…awful!”
The Turbulences FRAC Centre Orléans, France : Jakob+MacFarlane Architectes
230 Halsey Street Newark, NJ, USA : Richard Meier & Partners Architects
Gothenburg Skyscraper Design Competition, Sweden : Tall Building Contest
Casa Oruga, Lo Barnechea, Chile : Sebastián Irarrázaval Delpiano with Erick Caro
House in Brasília, Brazil : Daniel Mangabeira, Henrique Coutinho, Matheus Seco
RIBA Gold Medal 2014 : Joseph Rykwert
Peter Gilgan Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Diamond Schmitt Architects
David Chipperfield Architect news : Praemium Imperiale Architectural Laureate 2013
Kiruna City Hall, northern Sweden : Henning Larsen Architects
picture from architects
Walkie Talkie Building London – new photos : Rafael Viñoly Architects
SNFCC Building Athens, Greece – new images : Renzo Piano Building Workshop
122 Leadenhall Street – ‘The Cheesegrater’ – London – new photos : RSHP
New Court Justice in Hasselt, Belgium : J. MAYER H. / a2o-architecten / Lensºass architecten
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Norwich, Norfolk, England : Foster + Partners
European Prize Architecture 2013 : architect Marco Casagrande wins
Aga Khan Award for Architecture Prize 2013 : winners
Kasumigaoka National Stadium Tokyo, Japan – news : Zaha Hadid Architects
House in Waldenburg, Germany : Philipp Architekten
photo : Victor Brigola
Library of Birmingham Building, England : Mecanoo
Rockmount House, The Wirral, north west England : ShedKM
Shanghai ZhangDaQian, China : Sutherland Hussey Architects with GROSSMAX
BnL Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg, Luxembourg : BOLLES+WILSON
Kenzo Tange architect, Tokyo, Japan : the 100th Anniversary of his Birth Doodle
Na Vackove Residential Houses Prague, Czech Republic : Unit Architekti
photo : Filip Slapal
WAF Awards 2013, Singapore
image from WAF
World Architecture Festival Awards 2013
2,000 of the world’s leading architects, clients and suppliers under one roof.
A monastery in Taiwan, a giraffe house in New Zealand, a treehouse in the USA and a research station in Antarctica are among the 302 projects shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival Awards 2013 – the world’s biggest architectural awards programme.
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