U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis B. Susman, and Acting Director of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Adam Namm, announced today that KieranTimberlake of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has won the design competition for the New London Embassy.
KieranTimberlake’s design met the goal of creating a modern, welcoming, timeless, safe and energy efficient embassy for the 21st century. Their concept most fully satisfied the requirements outlined in the design competition’s mission statement. The concept holds the greatest potential for developing a truly iconic embassy and is on the leading edge of sustainable design. KieranTimberlake is an architectural firm known for its commitment to innovation and environmental responsibility.
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Architectural practice Nightingale Associates defies recession with largest ever win in redevelopment of Glasgow’s Southern General hospital.
Nightingale Associates, as part of the Brookfield Constructions UK consortium, has today been announced as the practice that will design the £840 million super hospital’ in Glasgow city centre. The New South Glasgow Hospital Campus will not only be the largest contract won in the practice’s twenty year history, but will also be one of the largest hospitals ever commissioned to be built in the UK.
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London practice Amanda Levete Architects have completed the facade of an office building off Oxford Street in London.
Located at 10 Hills Place, the project consists of four glazed slashes in the aluminium surface, funneling light down into the offices.
The architects drew on technology normally used to build ship hulls.
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Local dRMM (Alex de Rijke, Philip Marsh and Sadie Morgan) recently completed Clapham Manor Primary School in London, UK. This new teaching wing – an extension to an existing Victorian board school building – offers classrooms, performance space, staff facilities, reception and improved access while maximizing play space.
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In 2003, Land Securities launched a competition to find a world class architect. For one of London’s most prestigious developments. Someone with the extraordinary brilliance, shining talent and rare vision, to design a landmark that would respect its unique historical setting. To create a building of artistic integrity.
They found him in the internationally acclaimed French architect Jean Nouvel.
‘The design of One New Change is about enriching the City with a new sort of modernity, one that reaches beyond itself to speak, to contemplate and to reveal the diverse character of its surroundings. It is a contemporary building which will set up a dialogue with St Paul’s and the neighboring buildings. The proposed design is calm and deferential to St Paul’s Cathedral and provides a unique opportunity to bring the public into the site.‘ – JEAN NOUVEL
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‘Common Houses’, the design entry by Jude Barber and Phil Zoechbauer of Glasgow-based Collective Architecture, has recently been announced winner of the Common of Houses Competition.
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The Piercy Conner Microflat is a small, efficiently designed, high quality, compact dwelling that is around two thirds the size of a conventional inner-city one bedroom flat.
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Designer Thomas Heatherwick of Heatherwick Studio has completed a series of brass newspaper kiosks in London.
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