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13-06-2014

Brazil 2014: The new World Cup Football stadiums.

Architects and engineers are creating a new look for Brazil’s stadiums ready for World Cup Football, with futuristic construction and restyling projects. The World Cup in Brazil will be remembered for its futuristic architecture. Architects including Populous, Anibal Coutinho and American architecture and design studios such as Gensler and HKS have all been busy working on development of Brazilian infrastructure in preparation for the kick-off of the 2014 World Cup.

27-05-2014

Snøhetta National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion - New York, USA

On May 14 US president Barack Obama opened the museum commemorating the victims of September 11 2001. The entrance pavilion is designed by Snøhetta architectural studios. The building will open to the public on May 21, 2014.

16-05-2014

2014 National Design Awards. Landscape Architecture category.

Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum introduced the National Design Awards to honour the best in American design, and Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture is the winner of the 2014 award for the Landscape Architecture Category.

16-05-2014

Rapt Studio, Vans Headquarters

Skate, branding and interior design: the interiors of the Vans headquarters in Cypress, CA are designed to be consistent with the brand’s values: an “Off The Wall”, energetic visual design.

08-05-2014

Sustainable housing in Cambodia. Building Trust International.

The non-profit organisation Building Trust International has completed construction of three sustainable homes in Cambodia.

07-05-2014

Saitowitz: bridge home in California

Stanley Saitowitz of Natoma Architects underlines the originality of the site of his bridge-shaped home in California, built out of the most commonly used materials in modern American architecture: steel, concrete and glass, employed here in both the structure and the cladding.

07-05-2014

The architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa wins the 2014 National Design Awards

Celebrating design as “a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world” is the main goal of the National Design Awards, conceived by Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. The architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has been awarded in Architecture Design.

05-05-2014

AIA and COTE select the Iowa Utilities Board by BNIM as a recipient of the Top Ten Plus

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have selected Top Ten Plus for the second year.