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Architects: Asif Khan Studio
- Area: 170 m²
- Year: 2024
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Professionals: Townshend Landscape Architects, Galldris
Canada Water Pedestrian Boardwalk / Asif Khan Studio
RIBA Announces the 2022 National Award Winners Showcasing UK’s Best New Architecture
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the 29 winners of the 2022 RIBA National Awards for architecture. Ranging from net-zero carbon office buildings to family homes, schools and education facilities, urban developments and cultural buildings, this year’s projects provide an insight into the key trends that shape UK’s architectural and economic environment. Many projects focused on uniting communities, by creating spaces as a result of a collaboration between the local residents and the architects, or by offering unique venues for musical or cultural events. The future of housing was also addressed, with projects illustrating a vision for modern rural living or creating new city blocks centered around community gardens. Another area of interest was the restoration and adaptation of existing buildings, be it a 900-year-old former dining hall of the Cathedral or an iconic 1950s Modernist house.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Museum of Architecture launch the Treehouses at Kew Design Competition
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Museum of Architecture (MoA) have launched a competition to find three exceptional designs to create three treehouses across RBG Kew's UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of a larger ‘Treehouses at Kew’ Exhibition.
‘Treehouses at Kew’ will be Kew’s main exhibition running from April to October 2023, and provide one of the most unmissable visitor experiences of the 2023 London cultural calendar.
The Professionals Involved in the Best Projects of 2021
Every year, ArchDaily's curatorial team publishes thousands of new architectural projects. From this experience, we know that no one builds alone and that these projects would not have been possible without the collaboration of many other professionals that are as much involved as the architects and designers themselves.
The Rise of Co-Living: Designing for Communal Life
Communal living is nothing new. Throughout history, housing has long been tied to both shared needs and a concentration of resources. Today, between population growth and an increase in urban density and real estate prices, architects and urban planners have been pursuing alternatives for shared living. These new models explore a range of spatial and formal configurations with a shared vision for the future.
Pantone Reveals "Inventive and Transformative" 2022 Color of the Year
Pantone has revealed its Color of the Year for 2022; 17-3938 Very Peri, a brand new color "whose courageous presence encourages personal inventiveness and creativity". The shade falls under the blue color family but with violet red undertones, illustrating the fusion of our modern times and how the digital world has morphed with our physical one. In architecture, shades of periwinkle blue and lavender have long been used in installations, commercial spaces, and lighting, instilling an overall calming, optimistic, and positive effect on the human mind.
Adaptive Reuse: Rethinking Carbon, Sustainability and Social Justice
Sustainable architecture begins with designing for longer lifecycles and reuse. Looking to create more inclusive and viable futures, architects are exploring adaptive reuse as one of the best strategies to address the climate crisis and promote social justice. Reuse keeps the culture of an area alive, bridging between old and new as projects push the boundaries of circular and adaptive design.
The Tide / Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Lead) + Neiheiser Argyros
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Architects: Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Neiheiser Argyros
- Year: 2019
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Professionals: Gross. Max., AKT II, Arup, David Bonnett Associates, Gardiner & Theobald, +2
Horseshoe Bend Brass Kiosk / Mizzi Studio
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Architects: Mizzi Studio
- Year: 2021
Kita Aoyama Apartments / Conran and Partners
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Architects: Conran and Partners
- Area: 6098 m²
- Year: 2020
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Professionals: Landscape Plus Inc
Spotlight: Zaha Hadid
In her lifetime, Pritzker prize-winning architect, fashion designer and artist Zaha Hadid (31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) became one of the most recognizable faces of our field. Revered and denounced in equal measure for the sensuous curved forms for which she was known, Hadid rose to prominence not solely through parametricism but by designing spaces to occupy geometries in new ways. Despite her tragically early death in March of 2016, the projects now being completed by her office without their original lead designer continue to push boundaries both creative and technological, while the fearless media presence she cultivated in recent decades has cemented her place in society as a woman who needs just one name: Zaha.
ConsenSys Offices / Neiheiser Argyros
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Architects: Neiheiser Argyros
- Area: 1400 m²
- Year: 2019
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Manufacturers: Camira, Nora, Opendesk, Sagal, The Cork Flooring Co
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Professionals: The Lighting Asylum, Construction & Shopfitting Ltd
Jonathan Mizzi on the Future of Tiny Architecture
London/Malta-based Mizzi Studio, led by founder Jonathan Mizzi, are at the forefront of the growing trend of micro-architecture. As exemplified by their recent commission for the design of nine kiosks across London’s Royal Parks, the firm has a passion for the fusion of craft and technology, and in particular, the large, invisible forces of economy, sustainability, and psychology that converge on such small spaces and structures.
BFI Southbank Riverfront / Carmody Groarke
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Architects: Carmody Groarke
- Year: 2018