Winchester studio OB Architecture has renovated a 1930s house in Winchester adding a dramatic glazed living, kitchen and dining space. Together with its extensive rear garden it has been transformed into a modern family home.
Bringing together 147 countries and an anticipated 20 million visitors, the Milan Expo is taking place between May and October 2015 with a focus on the urgent challenge of how to feed the world as the global population is projected to increase to nine billion in 2050.
Under the themeGrown in Britain, the UK will be a part of it with animmersivePavilion designed by Wolfgang Buttress and built by Stage One.
The young London-Moscow-Tbilisi based practice Architects of Invention alongside with Hewson Consultants, Engenuiti, Edenvale Young, Hyland Edgar Driver, Lumieres Studio, Gardiner & Theobald and Savills has entered competition for a design of a pedestrian and cycle bridge connecting Nine Elms and Pimlico.
Marks Barfield Architect’s Gateway Pavilions are the first completed project in Knight Dragon’s ambitious and evolving vision for the Greenwich Peninsula. They mark a statement of intent, signalling the quality and character of the place they intend the Peninsula to become.
Fletcher Priest has revived 19th century Carmelite House, originally the headquarters of Lord Northcliffe’s publishing empire situated within the Conservation Area on Victoria Embankment, to transform it into the headquarters for contemporary publishing group Hachette UK.
The building is seven stories high with descending terraces at the front, which offer views towards the river from the internally situated apartments. While the building is foremost designated as residential, part of the ground floor is occupied with space for retail. The building’s round shape creates public spaces on the ground floor – opening to the north–east between the Strata House and the new development and also from the south-east corner on the embankment by the bridge.
The team converted 3D scanned images of an educational center into an information rich, intelligent BIM models with LOD-300 with Architecture & Structure disciplines.
Situated in the south-western corner of the V&A South Kensington site, Gallery 40 is one of the museum’s largest and most architecturally distinctive interior spaces. The simplified neo-classical gallery, 1600 sqm in area, is based on an octagonal plan with four deep circular alcoves below a flattened domed glass roof.
The proposal creates a holistic vision for the heart of the ambitious Great Fen masterplan. The visitor experience is conceived to be delightful, interactive and informative with the Visitor Centre interwoven within a large mosaic of differing fen landscapes and habitats. Paths and canals radiate from the Visitor Centre to link with the rich wetland landscape.