GREAT FEN VISITOR CENTRE WINS SHIRO STUDIO

Our design for the new Great Fen Visitor Centre explored how Architecture can conspire with Nature to create a serene and confident juxtaposition between modernity and the rich and complex history of the fen landscape.

BEN GURION UNIVERSITY SENATE BUILDING BY CHYUTIN ARCHITECTS

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev aspires to be among the best inter-disciplinary research universities in the world, a leader in scientific innovation, inter-disciplinary research and applied sciences – all of which impact daily life.

CROWN RESORTS HAS CHOSEN WILKINSON EYRE

The joint judging panel unanimously recommended the Wilkinson Eyre design to Crown, following an extended competition to design the Crown Sydney Hotel Resort at Barangaroo South on the city’s harbourfront. The winning design, unanimously selected by a judging panel assembled by Crown Resorts, takes its inspiration from three twisting petals and will cost up to $1.5 billion to bring to life.

CONSTRUCTION BEGINS OF BRYGHUSPROJEKTET BY OMA

Construction begins today on the OMA-designed Bryghusprojektet in Copenhagen, Denmark. The 27,000m² mixed-use project will accommodate a new headquarters for the Danish Architecture Centre (DAC).

KING ABDULLAH FINANCIAL DISTRICT METRO STATION BY ZAHA HADID

The King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) Metro Station will serve as a key interchange on the new Riyadh Metro network for Line 1, as well as the terminus of Line 4 (for passengers to the airport) and Line 6. The local monorail can also be accessed from the station via a skybridge.

DHUB DESIGN MUSEUM BARCELONA BY MBM ARQUITECTES

The Design Museum, or Design Hub as it is now called, is situated on a sloping site, with a drop of about seven meters, on the coastal side of Barcelona’s Plaça de les Glòries, beside Jean Nouvelle’s Agbar tower, and very close to the elevated round-about of a busy motorway.

COLLIDER ACTIVITY CENTER BY MARS ARCHITECTS & INTOARCH

The jury was in Sofia between March 7 and March 10 and had a great challenge to judge all projects. The first day was a review of all submitted projects where the jury voted whether the project should continue into the next stage or not. Each member had the chance to nominate additional projects even if they did not collect enough votes and in that way bring them back to the table of discussions.

OFFICE BUILDING BY SCHMELZLE+PARTNER

Il sogno di ogni architetto, progettarsi il proprio studio ed essere committenti di noi stessi. Questo è il progetto di Schmelzle+Partner, un gruppo composto da oltre 40 tra architetti e ingegneri, con un nuovo studio localizzato a Hallwangen, un piccolo centro in Germania occidentale prossimo al confine con la Francia.

MIAMI BEACH SQUARE BY BIG

Miami Beach is is one of the youngest cities in America – and perhaps right now one of the most vibrant and dynamic. Its streetscape is characterized by a lively walkable urban fabric with a friendly human scaled environment under the cool shade of tropical trees and art deco canopies - except at the convention center. It is a dead black hole of asphalt in the heart of one the most beautiful and lively cities in America.

PRISHTINA CENTRAL MOSQUE ENTRY BY OODA + AND-RÉ

Since we announced that the international architecture competition to design the Central Mosque of Prishtina, Kosovo had not (yet) turned out a clear winner, we have received many, many mosque design entries, some of which we have published here on Bustler.Another entry well worth featuring is this design collaboration between Portuguese firms OODA and AND-RÉ with AFA CONSULT / Rui Furtado as the engineering partner

BIBLIOTECA SANT JOSEP BY RAMÓN ESTEVE

The library is a detached building within green surroundings splashed with trees that penetrate into the openings of the building.