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4 Nurseries / Schemaa

© Sébastien Andréi
Architects: Schemaa
Location: ,
Area: 490.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Sébastien Andréi

SALVA46 / MIEL Arquitectos + STUDIO P10

© Asier Rua
Architects: MIEL Arquitectos, STUDIO P10
Location: Barcelona, Barcelona,
Cost: 1.230 €/m2
Area: 65.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Asier Rua

Westgarth House / Kennedy Nolan Architects

© Derek Swalwell
Architects: Kennedy Nolan Architects
Location: VIC,
Year: 2013
Photographs: Derek Swalwell

Okinawa Nursing Training Center / IIDA Archiship Studio

© Kenichi Suzuki
Architects: IIDA Archiship Studio
Location: , Shimajiri District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
Area: 4377.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Kenichi Suzuki
Breaking New Ground: Designing Affordable Housing for the Coachella Valley Workforce

Breaking New Ground: Designing Affordable Housing for the Coachella Valley Workforce

Breaking New Ground is an international design and ideas competition addressing the urgent affordable housing needs for farmworker and service worker families in the Coachella Valley, where efforts to improve living conditions suffers from a lack of funding and coordination. Going beyond design, the competition seeks to envision new precedents, mechanisms, and policies for affordable housing implementation and development, with implications for California and the nation.

South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute / Woods Bagot

© Trevor Mein
Architects: Woods Bagot
Location: SA,
Photographs: Trevor Mein

Erick van Egeraat Designs Pedestrianized City Center in Saudi Arabia

Aerial View. Image © (designed by) Erick van Egeraat BV
Erick van Egeraat have released images of their design for the city center of in Saudi Arabia. Thanks to a 4-lane ring road and an underground thoroughfare linking to underground parking, the 58 hectare site will be entirely pedestrianized at ground level, featuring 70,000 square meters of shopping areas, a gold market, apartments, and offices, all of which will join the city’s existing central mosque.
More on the city center design after the break

WAF Unveils 2014 Festival Program

With the (WAF) just around the corner, the festival’s full program has been unveiled, featuring three days of fascinating talks, an impressive list of key-note speakers and networking opportunities.
“Architects and the City” is the overarching theme for this year’s main conference sessions, and the talks will focus on the contributions architects can make to cities and how they affect – and are affected by – politics, infrastructure, planning communities and technology. Conference talks include “Greening the urban landscape: strategies for environmental urbanism,” “Question time- is ‘iconic’ architecture out of control?” and “Connecting the city; regenerating communities.”
The festival also features an impressive line-up of key note speakers, including Rocco Yim of Rocco Design Associates who will speak on his involvement in the West Kowloon Cultural District, the largest arts and cultural project in Hong Kong to date, and Richard Rogers who will speak candidly about his life as one of the most influential global figures in architecture and his future agenda. Moshe Safdie will close the Festival, looking back over his extensive career to talk exclusively about the defining moments that shaped its path.
More WAF program highlights after the break…

Top 300 US Architecture Firms

This project from top-ranked firm Gensler (in collaboration with the HGMY Consortium) will double the size of Korea’s Incheon Airport. The project broke ground in 2013. Image Courtesy of Gensler
Architectural Record has released its annual list of the “Top 300 Architecture Firms” in the , based on architectural revenue from 2013. Gensler was the number one firm earning $883 million, with recent projects including Terminal 2 of Korea’s Incheon International Airport and the Shanghai Tower, which is set to be the world’s second tallest skyscraper.  CH2M Hill and AECOM Technology Corp came in second and third, respectively, switching places from the previous year.
See the top 50 firms after the break…

Vale dos Cristais Residence / Anastasia Arquitetos

© Jomar Bragança
Architects: Anastasia Arquitetos
Location: Nova Lima – Minas Gerais,
Collaborators: Tomás Anastasia Rebelo Horta, Johanna Lanna Anastasia Cardoso
Area: 690.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Jomar Bragança

Courtyard House / NO ARCHITECTURE

© Iwan Baan
Architects: NO ARCHITECTURE
Location: , OR 97002, USA
Architect In Charge: Andrew Heid
Project Team: Christopher Purpura, Jack Hogan, Noa Peer
Year: 2013
Photographs: Iwan Baan, Michael Weber, NOA

Catch The Views House / LAND Arquitectos

© Sergio Pirrone
Architects: LAND Arquitectos
Location: , , Valparaíso Region, Chile
Architect In Charge: Cristobal Valenzuela H, Angela Delorenzo A
Area: 593.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Sergio Pirrone

Shelf Life: 33 Book Recommendations From Architects & Designers

Architects often don’t make time to read. Students and professionals alike will admit that the unread books on their shelves outnumber the ones they’ve read - which is unfortunate because literary contributions to the field of architecture, from Vitruvius to Le Corbusier, have shaped the way we build and use buildings for centuries. With this in mind, ArchitectureBoston polled their readers, asking them to share their favorite architecture and design titles, to compile a list of important architecture books you should set aside some time for. The list covers a wide range of subjects, from historical theory to the practicalities of starting a firm. See all thirty-three titles, after the break.

Silos 13 / vib architecture

© Stéphane Chalmeau
Architects: vib architecture
Location: ,
Architects In Charge: Bettina Ballus, Franck Vialet
Area: 4478.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Stéphane Chalmeau, Daniel Moulinet, Courtesy of vib architecture

Russet Residence / Splyce Design

© Ivan Hunter
Architects: Splyce Design
Location: , BC, Canada
Build: Powers Construction
Area: 4600.0 ft2
Year: 2013
Photographs: Ivan Hunter

AIA Announces Winners of National Healthcare Design Awards

Rush University Medical Center New Hospital Tower / Perkins+Will. Image © James Steinkamp
The AIA has announced 8 projects as winners of their annual National Healthcare Design Awards, rewarding the best in medical architecture from built projects to research excellence. The 8 projects were selected in four categories: built (less than $25 million); built (more than $25 million); Unbuilt; and Innovations in Planning and Design Research.
The awarded projects come from locations throughout the US, as well as one project constructed for Haiti. Read on after the break to see all the winners.

UNStudio Revamps Hanwha Offices with Shimmering LED Facade

Exterior View- Night. Image ©
With a glittering exterior that benefits both the interior and the exterior, UNStudio’s renovation proposal for Hanwha headquarters has recently won them first place in a competition to redesign the company’s office tower. Located in Seoul, South Korea, the tower is sited in the busy Cheonggyecheon district of the city. The new design will help to visually reestablish Hanwha as a leader in environmental technology, both in Korea and internationally.

Competition Results: “Faith! A Place of Worship in London”

You Are Here / Felicity Barbur and Edward Crooks. Image Courtesy of Combo
Faith!, the latest ideas-based challenge organised by Combo Competitions, asked participants to design a place of worship in London. In spite of the beguiling simplicity of the title, coupled with a typically open brief, the placed winners and three honourable mentions exhibit a diverse, exciting collection of conceptual drawings and visuals. With an interesting balance of playful interpretations and more grounded proposals, all start to address relevant socio-political issues – such as the mutual acceptance and peaceful co-existence of different religions – in some way. The competition asked participants first and foremost to seek to merge two concepts: religion and knowledge.
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