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27-06-2018

Ennead Architects + Jacobs: EERC University of Texas, Austin

Ennead Architects completed the new Engineering Education and Research Center (EERC) at the University of Texas in Austin in 2018. In partnership with the structural engineers of Jacobs Consultancy Inc., Ennead has built a complex centring around a glass atrium between two stone towers.

15-06-2018

WDA William Duff Architects and the renovation of Big Ranch Road

WDA (William Duff Architects) has won the American Institute of Architects San Francisco (AIA SF) Merit Award for Big Ranch Road, a project to convert an old barn in the Napa Valley into a family retreat.

06-06-2018

Oasia Hotel Downtown named Best Tall Building Worldwide 2018

The Tall + Urban Innovation Conference is over, and the jury of the CTBUH 2018 Awards has announced the winners in each category. The overall winner is Woha’s Oasia Hotel Downtown in Singapore, named Best Tall Building Worldwide 2018.

30-05-2018

Temporary installations between the natural and the artificial

A number of interesting temporary installations for Fuorisalone and Euroflora experiment with different architectural materials and idioms. At Fuorisalone 2018, Carrara Causeway, created by architect Marco Porpora for Ariostea, Piuarch’s AgrAir and Labics’ Visionair; and Locus Amoenus, an installation by ENTER Studio and OBR, bringing architecture to Euroflora 2018.

25-05-2018

Glass walls and photovoltaic panels for RPBW’s Palais de Justice in Paris

The new Palais de Justice in Paris designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop is a composition of steel and glass volumes rising upwards, with photovoltaic panels winding over the glass surface like punctuation marks, adding interest to the whole and creating an unusual building.

25-05-2018

Archi-Tectonics V33 Residential building in Tribeca, New York

A series of overlapping urban villas, a project representing an innovation with respect to the classic apartment building. V33 is a residential project in Tribeca, NYC, by Archi-Tectonics, which will be featured in the third “episode” of The Architects Series, the new cultural format at SpazioFMGperl'architettura, the Iris Ceramica Group’s gallery in Milan.

17-05-2018

Ibenergi Headquarters in Toledo, by Taller Abierto

Spanish architecture firm Taller Abierta designed the Ibenergi headquarters in Toledo.

24-04-2018

Landscape Pavilion by Anne Carrier architecture

The architects from Canadian firm Anne Carrier architecture designed the new visitor centre for Seigneurie-des-Aulnaies, a registered Quebec cultural heritage site, basing the concept on the characteristic elements of the surrounding landscape to showcase the site's most interesting landscape and heritage features.