Q-house by asensio_mah

Spanish architects asensio_mah have designed a house on a steep site in the north of Spain. (more…)

from Dezeen by Rose Etherington

RMJM: win islamic architecture award for zliten campus, libya

RMJM architects have received the islamic architecture award for their work on
the zliten campus at asmariya university for islamic sciences in libya at the cityscape
awards in dubai, 2009. the zliten campus is a new branch of al asmariya university, located 75 miles southeast of tripoli. RMJM’s architects designed a campus master plan for the development of the 202-acre site. core academic functions are organized in four quadrants within a perimeter habitable wall that houses faculty offices and academic support functions.

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Santiago Calatrava's Next Sculpture: The Lige-Guillemins Railway Station

Calatrava has a fondness for the city after spending nearly 11 years bouncing in and out during the construction and sees the importance of Liges history as an industrial area prior to the steelworks collapse, and feels a need to recognize the strong foundation needed for Lige to become a viable gateway city.

Calatrava Photo: Joao Carlos

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by Carly Erin O'Neil

Fabege: Arenastaden

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Solna, Sweden / Commercial, residential, sports, infrastructure
/ Fabege / Master plan
/ www.fabege.se

SWECO Architects: Skeppsbron

Göteborg, Sweden / Design proposal for a new infrastructure centre
/ SWECO Architects / Göteborg / Design proposal
/ www.sweco.se

Visualization: Tenjin Visual

Celosia Residence | MVRDV

In Madrid-Sanchinarro the first residents received the keys to their apartments in the just completed Celosia building. Jacob van Rijs of MVRDV and Blanca Lleó have completed the social housing block near the Mirador Building, which is an earlier collaboration. The perforated block of Celosia assembles 146 apartments, communal outside areas throughout the building, and parking and commercial program in the plinth. The total floor area is 21,550m2. With a construction cost of 12,6 million Euro the apartments can be sold for affordable prizes. The city block is opened and allows wind and light to enter the building, offering vistas and outside spaces contrasting the surrounding area. The client is EMVS, the public housing corporation of the city of Madrid.

image courtesy of Ricardo Espinosa
from architecture buzz!! by Tanakorn Koomrampai

Sports and Leisure Center in Saint-Cloud / KOZ Architectes

This building is not lacking in self-confdence. As proof, you only have to take the second left along the Avenue de Longchamps from the Les Côteaux tramway Station in Saint-Cloud. No sooner have you left behind a quiet row of smart private houses in the traditional millstone grit Parisian style with front steps and plane trees than you come face to face with an odd-looking building, imposing but also childishly simple, more cubist than cube-shaped, decidedly “fashy”, evoking happy memories of a child’s toy.

Photo © Stephan Lucas
from Arch Daily by Nico Saieh

Toronto Urban Design Awards 2009

The winners of the 2009 Toronto Urban Design Awards, the 6th since amalgamation, were recently announced. Bustler

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