Tag Refurbishment

23-03-2020

The beauty of nature, House of Flowers

The House of Flowers in Healdsburg, California is a project led by Walker Warner Architects with Maca Huneeus Design for the interiors and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects for the landscape architecture. It is the culmination of the sustainable restoration of an old winery built in the 1970s.

18-03-2020

Family life and memories, a home in Shantou, China

The makeover of an apartment in Shantou, China by the design firm, Jingu Phoenix Space Planning Organization creates a space that combines the client’s memories with a new spatial arrangement to meet the needs of a growing family.

16-03-2020

CAMP - Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning in Prague

CAMP - Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning is an urban hub that aims to support and drive public debate about the development and planning of the city of Prague. Housed in a modernist building designed by the famous Czech architect Karel Prager, CAMP has been given a makeover by the Prague studio NOT BAD.

13-03-2020

The Link by Make Architects, placemaking in Melbourne

The team from Make Architects have crafted a project in Melbourne that blends placemaking, infrastructure and innovation. The Link is a weather-protected walkway connecting the famed Chadstone Shopping Centre to a new hotel.

12-03-2020

Tainan Spring, an urban lagoon in Taiwan by MVRDV

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has created a virtuous example of the circular economy in Tainan, Taiwan. The architects removed and recycled a strategically positioned shopping mall in the old town, which no longer serves its intended purpose, replacing it with a sunken public plaza dominated by an urban pool and local plants, and surrounded by a shaded arcade.

09-03-2020

The Core: garage-to-office transformation for CBRE in Amsterdam

The international design firm CBRE has completed its headquarters in Amsterdam. Called The Core, the operation transformed an old multi-storey parking garage into their corporate offices. The intrinsically sustainable project won both the jury prize and the public prize in the Big Office category of the Frame Awards.

06-03-2020

Casey House by Hariri Pontarini Architects, 2020 National Urban Design Awards

Twelve projects across Canada - each one with a massive impact on the surrounding built environment - have been selected for the 2020 National Urban Design Awards. One of these is the renovation and extension by Hariri Pontarini Architects to Casey House, a specialized healthcare facility for individuals with HIV/AIDS.

05-03-2020

San Sa Village by IlLab Architects, a tribute to the senses and to regional culture

San Sa Village is a hotel complex north of Beijing, not far from the Great Wall of China. The project by llLab Architects - on a site that used to be occupied by a petrol station - was conceived as a kind of village-style group of buildings made from local slate and brick.