It was announced today at a press conference in Copenhagen, Denmark that Steven Holl Architects has won the international design competition “The LM Project”. With a program that connects office towers and civic spaces with a public walkway 65 meters above the harbor, the new design is intended to form an iconic landmark for Copenhagen’s waterfront. The competition was organized by CPH City and Port Development and ATP Ejendomme; the CEO’s for both companies were among the jury members selecting the winner. The Chairman of the Jury is administrative director of the development company City / Harbor and Copenhagen’s former lord mayor Jens Kramer Mikkelsen.

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GZBICC, Guangzhou Baiyun International Convention Centre, China

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In celebration of Foster + Partners’ forthcoming project to remodel and extend the ‘Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus’, the museum is hosting an exhibition to preview the design for the Städtische Galerie and to explore a number of related works, which address the theme of working with history.

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Circle West Architects is honored to receive Valley Forward Environmental Excellence Awards for two stand-out projects: an urban multi-family residential townhome known as The Duke, and a single-family residence known as Desert House. Modern and environmentally sensitive, The Duke and Desert House exemplify Circle West’s creative ethos: to generate inspiring innovative constructions that elevate quality of life while allowing the natural environment to endure.

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5th Studio’s Public Realm Strategy for Park Royal- Europe’s largest industrial area, seeks to improve this key strategic workshop for London through ‘top down’ and ‘bottom up’ tactics. Park Royal is located halfway between central London and Heathrow airport and is Europe’s largest industrial estate.

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‘The Montenegro Terraces are located in a scenic bay between Budva og Svedi Stefan. The site is located on a steep incline and incorporates 8.000m* of holiday homes.
In a effort to combine maximum density with minimum impact we created the residential architecture by turning the topography in to the masterplan. Like a naturally generated design we made every 4th topoline the facade of a terrace house. The facades follow the natural curvature of the mountain terrain providing large private gardens with panoramic views of Regean Sea.
The result is a landscape of inhabitated ricefields. Topography is architecture.’

//Bjarke Ingels, founder of BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group)

Source: www.big.dk

The competition to design Hudson Park and Boulevard is now coming to a close. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) has been selected as lead designer for the project to design a park around Hudson Boulevard, which will run west of 10th Avenue and include a 4-acre system of parks linking to the core of Hudson Yards.

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