New Zealand Institute of Architects Awards Wellington’s Best Buildings

From a writer’s residence powered only by sun and water to the massive new Regional Hospital project, excellence in design was celebrated in the 2009 Wellington Architecture Awards. The landmark BNZ Harbour Quays Building, Moore Wilson Fresh and Chews Lane Precinct are also among winners in the Wellington awards program, organized and run by the New Zealand Institute of Architects and supported by Resene.

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Kensington Lighthouse by Tandem Design Studi

Tandem Design Studio of Melbourne have completed a house with a wooden interior in Melbourne, Australia. (more…)

from Dezeen by Ruth Hynes

The Ubud / TWS & Partners

This project is a small scale of mix use building, located within the heart of Jakarta. The main function is to house the famous BEBEK BENGIL restaurant from Ubud, Bali. The original Bebek Bengil restaurant is very famous with it’s specialty of crispy fried duck menu and have a unique location, which sit on the exotic rice or padi field.

Photo: © Fernando Gomulya
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Solar Powered Treehouse Classrooms Unveiled in the UK

Recently the Elleray Preparatory School in the UK unveiled an incredible set of tree-top classrooms. Situated in the Lake District National Park, the three green-built class pods stand on stilts connected by a center platform made from recycled materials. Built to have a low impact on the environment while accommodating the school’s expanding student body, the Treehouse School is sure to inspire all the children the walk through its doors.

from Inhabitat » Architecture by Bridgette Meinhold

zaha Iron: mash, Rome - complete

yesterday saw the opening of zaha hadid's MAXXI - national museum of XXI century art located in rome's flaminio neighbourhood. the building which took 10 years to complete was constructed on the site of the former montello military barracks. the official inauguration of the museum will take place in spring 2010.

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WOHA: the met residential skyscraper, bangkok

the met, a bangkok residential skyscraper designed by WOHA won world's best housing development award this year at the world architecture festival. influenced by thai tiles, textiles and timber panelling, the concept behind the complex was to explore ideas of how low-rise tropical housing can be applied to create outdoor-indoor spaces in the sky. with the aim of creating a better lifestyle for metropolitan living, the met was developed less from western temperate models and more on the possibilities of low-wind, tropical climates in dense urban conditions - it is within tropic climages where you experience cooler breezes, less dust, more privacy, security, less noise and better views the higher you go.

image by patrick bingham-hall
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World Architecture Festival category winners

The nine World Architecture Festival category winners have been announced at the festival in Barcelona. (more…)

from Dezeen by Rose Etherington

The house-tree by Tatiana Bilbao

Mexican architectural company Tatiana Bilbao has created the design project of a university building. The author has inspired on project creation — an ordinary tree.The building has received the name “Biotechnological Park Building”. The six-storied structure will shelter researchers and experimenters in the field of the new technologies applied in agriculture.
The project will take places on 8,000 sq.m. of a campus of the largest private university in Mexico (Tecnológico de Monterrey) in the city of Culiacan.

from Architectural Europe by Mara