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Holmes Miller wins gold for HM Prison and Young Offender Institution, Stirling, Scotland, at Scottish Design Awards: therapeutic building environment based on safety, respect and dignity
Remembering Joel Solkoff. Design matters: we who are about to die salute you. ‘We are going to have to live with Covid. We cannot eliminate it. We have to learn how to control it’ — Dr. Anthony Fauci, November 28, 2021
NBRS ARCHITECTURE has been awarded Runner Up in an international design competition for a Cyber Criminal Facility in The Hague, Netherlands.
Storstrøm Prison, designed by C. F. Møller Architects, will be the setting for the world’s most humane and re-socializing closed prison, with architecture which supports the inmates’ mental and physical well-being.
Design: Arkis Architects
This building is one of 30 model projects of the ‘Nordic Built principles’, and embodies the principles in its design and function. It is the result of rigorous consultation with the users with the aim of creating a sustainable prison.
Ny Anstalt in Nuuk, Grønland, designed by schmidt hammer lassen architects with Friis & Moltke, architecture competition win to design the correctional facility Ny Anstalt in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.
Belfast architects McAdam Design with Studio Daniel Libeskind have been appointed to design a £18 million conflict resolution centre on the site of Northern Ireland’s infamous Maze Prison.
The prison is uniquely designed as a small village and integrates several landscape features, among other things animal husbandry, within the perimeter wall.
Maasberg Juvenile detention living, Holland Building, Dutch Project, Photo, News Maasberg Juvenile detention centre, Holland Maasberg Development, The Netherlands – design by UArchitects 17 Jul 2009 Maasberg Juvenile detention living TIME – OUT Unit 5 of “JJI De Hunnerberg, De Maasberg” in Overloon is converted from a prison for adults into an autonomously functioning juvenile … Read more
In reaction to US President-elect Barack Obama’s Sunday’s declaration on CBS ’60 minutes’ on 16.11.2008 (his first sit-down interview since winning the November 4 presidential election) where he has confirmed his intention to close Guantanamo’s Detention Center.
Unit 5 and 6 of the “Penitentiaire Inrichting Maasberg” in Overloon is converted from an institution for adults into an autonomously functioning juvenile detention institution.