aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Codenamed K64 – for it straddles the 64th parallel north – the Keflavik Airport Area Masterplan aims to be a catalyst for innovating the Icelandic economy. The masterplan went through an intense participatory process with a large group of stakeholders, and has political support by the local and national government. Source by KCAP.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

London studio Coffey Architects has completed The Tannery, a mixed-use project in Bermondsey that combines housing , artist's studios and a gallery around a central courtyard. Coffey Architects was founded by Phil Coffey in 2005. The photography is by Phil Coffey.

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Architizer

AUGUST 2, 2023

Shops, residential blocks, floating structures housing offices and hospitality have replaced redundant warehouses and cranes. In total, eight sites have been approved, but the initial series could be the start of something far bigger — a vast ‘central park’ running down both river banks.

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The Spaces

MAY 8, 2024

The clubhouse is the centrepiece of Valle San Nicolás, a new residential development masterplanned by Sordo Madaleno on the outskirts of Valle de Bravo in the State of Mexico. The private community is embedded in a 370-hectare natural site offering lake views, forest, and rugged Sierra terrain.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

After a year of competitive dialogue, the team led by Lafayette, in collaboration with KCAP, Etablissement, Elioth, Suez, Ville en Œuvre, Mint and E.Co, has won the 700-hectare masterplan for the area around Tours Val de Loire Airport in France, competing against two other international teams. Image © Filippo Bolognese.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 30, 2024

Oman’s Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning (MoHUP) has announced the masterplan for a reimagined waterfront development in downtown Muscat, the nation’s capital. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), the $1.3bn Al Khuwair Muscat Downtown and Waterfront Development will span 3.3 Source by Zaha Hadid Architects.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 25, 2024

This elongated tract, previously used by the city as a storage area for cargo shipped by trains, has been transformed under the guidance of KCAP into a lively residential and work neighbourhood, rejuvenating a former entrepôts brownfield site. Source by KCAP.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Development company Human Nature has received planning approval to transform a former industrial site in Lewes into a sustainable 685-home neighbourhood that will be the UK's largest made from timber. The Phoenix aims to provide sustainable housing to people with a range of income brackets.

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e-architect

JUNE 28, 2023

The site presented challenging constraints including a former tenants’ hall and public right of way, existing mature trees and a neighbouring terrace of listed Georgian buildings. The landscape design achieves a net gain in biodiversity and exceeds the required urban greening factor of 0.5.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Møller Architects and EFFEKT have designed the 12,500 m2 building in collaboration with Artelia. It unites the site’s various scales and architectural figures, such as cranes, container ships and clean, geometric industrial buildings, in a bold and distinctive concrete framework. In a joint partnership Danish architecture studios C.F.

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Architonic

MAY 17, 2022

Salford’s cotton-weaving heritage was the inspiration behind the Make Architects’ designed, highly flexible commercial office building at Three New Bailey. Three New Bailey is a gateway building on the Salford Central masterplan site.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Text description provided by the architects. The site occupies the northern edge of Chaoyang Park inside the Fourth Ring Road. At the time of engaging BAM, the site architecture. Xiaoyunlu 8, MAHA Residential Park Gallery. Year: 2021. Size: 500,000 sqft – 1,000,000 sqft. © Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM).

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

London studio Coffey Architects has completed Modern Barn, a home in Dorset, UK , that mimics a cluster of timber-clad barns in order to blend in with the surrounding landscape. Located atop a hill overlooking the Jurassic Coast World heritage site, the home replaces an old, dilapidated property with a new three-bedroom home.

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Deezen

MARCH 6, 2023

Following the news of Rafael Viñoly's death at the age of 78, we look back at nine stand-out projects designed by the Uruguayan architect over his career. Read: Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly dies aged 78 Later, in 1978, he moved to the US where he established his eponymous studio Rafael Viñoly Architects.

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Deezen

APRIL 8, 2024

London studio Bell Phillips wanted to create a contextual and contemporary addition to the Georgian and late Victorian architecture that surrounds the site. Bell Phillips was commissioned by Westminster City Council to contribute to the Church Street masterplan, a key regeneration scheme to provide the area with new homes.

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Architizer

JANUARY 17, 2023

When architects respond thoughtfully to a site’s native ecology, development can elevate nature and shape meaningful, enduring spaces that enrich the planet and the lives of its population. Shaoxing’s fascinating topography informed this daring residential garden. Jury Winner, 10 th Annual A+Awards, Urban and Masterplan.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

A large solar farm forms the centrepiece of Rome 's bid to host the World Expo in 2030, masterplanned by Carlo Ratti Associati with architect Italo Rota and urbanist Richard Burdett. The solar farm would power the exhibition site. Pavilions would be dotted throughout the masterplan.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 19, 2022

University of Brighton Moulsecoomb Campus Masterplan, East Sussex Campus Building, Southern English Development Photos. University of Brighton Moulsecoomb Campus Masterplan. Hassell completes a transformational masterplan for the University of Brighton. images courtesy of architects practice. 19 December 2022.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A look to history determines the way forward Situated 20km south-west of Shanghai, on a site that only four decades ago was densely forested, Solar Trees Marketplace is the first step in returning green to greater Shanghai and mitigating the effects of urban sprawl. Source by Koichi Takada Architects.

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aasarchitecture

JULY 27, 2023

Studio Farris Architects has announced the completion of a new residential project in Zottegem, Belgium, that revitalizes a urban island in the city center, that first suffered from abandonment and then a fire, that severely compromised its most valuable part. The sustainability of the project goes beyond technological solutions.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Named Buitenverblijf Nest, the dwelling is located at Buitenplaats Koningsweg, a wooded site at the edge of the Hoge Veluwe National Park in the Netherlands, which was formerly occupied by barracks. It is intended to blend in with the site "We came up with the idea to hide our folly high up in the trees, like a bird nest," i29 told Dezeen.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Dutch architecture firm UNStudio has unveiled plans for The Kyklos building, a mixed-use office building in Belval, Luxembourg , designed in collaboration with local studio HYP Architects. At this rounded corner, an internal curved staircase will wrap around the glass facade. The visualisations are courtesy of Play-Time Barcelona.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 11, 2024

The site is on the New Boulevard and is part of the Tirana Northern Boulevard, Central Park and River Project – a masterplan developed by Grimshaw Architects in 2017. Considering a historic north-south axis, the masterplan connects Skanderbeg Square with River Tirana. Source by Oppenheim Architecture.

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Hotel Designs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Arran Pexton, Director, Hopkins Architect Image credit: Hopkins Architect Arran Pexton has particular expertise in leading and managing extensive and dispersed consultant teams during the design and delivery of large-scale complex projects.

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A former manufacturing industrial site located alongside the Chicopee River in Chicopee, Mass., The sustainable mixed-use masterplan, designed by Paul A. Castrucci Architects (PCA), includes multi-use retail, a sports complex, and a residential complex. is set to become a new mixed-use development.

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Deezen

AUGUST 27, 2023

Inverted brick arches crown the Central Somers Town children's community centre near King's Cross, London , created by local studio Adam Khan Architects. The project forms the home of Plot 10, a community children's play project established in the 1970s that previously occupied a series of self-built timber structures on the site.

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The centre’s design intertwines with the city’s existing urban masterplan to connect the new multimedia library to the north of Jinghe Avenue with the new performing arts theatre, multi-function halls, studios and exhibition galleries to the south via elevated courtyards, gardens and paths that span the avenue’s eight lanes of traffic below.

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Bustler

MAY 14, 2024

This historically relevant and industrial city now faces the pressing challenge of rebuilding its damaged urban fabric, with a particular focus on residential buildings and public spaces, to not only repair but to also to improve the living conditions of its residents.

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Bustler

MAY 15, 2024

This historically relevant and industrial city now faces the pressing challenge of rebuilding its damaged urban fabric, with a particular focus on residential buildings and public spaces, to not only repair but to also to improve the living conditions of its residents.

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Deezen

JUNE 22, 2022

British architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has released visuals of the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre, which win span an eight-lane motorway in Xi'an, China. Zaha Hadid Architects has won a competition to create an arts centre in Xi'an. The Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre is designed to resemble a river.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 21, 2022

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has been named winner of the competition to design the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre. Image © Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA). Image © Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA). Source by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA). Image © Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA).

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2022

The Berlin studio of David Chipperfield Architects and engineering firm Arup have revealed the Santa Giulia arena in Milan for the 2026 Winter Olympics. David Chipperfield Architects and Arup are designing the Santa Giulia arena. David Chipperfield Architects was founded by British architect David Chipperfield in London in 1985.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The 83-metre-high tower, which will be mainly residential but also house retail and office spaces, will have a cascading shape that narrows as it rises. It shows an appreciation for the site's context and the rapid development unfolding around it." Above: the tower will be built in Tirana.

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Deezen

APRIL 19, 2022

American firm CookFox Architects has completed a pair of tall, connected buildings with gridded facades for a Williamsburg site that once held an iconic sugar factory. The site's original name has been retained. One South First holds residential units, while the other building contains office space.

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Deezen

MARCH 5, 2024

Called the Alta Tower, the residential building has a prominent position in the city at the centre of Le Havre's 20th-century postwar masterplan designed by French architect Auguste Perret.

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e-architect

APRIL 14, 2023

Construction work continues on Mulberry Grove Villas, an integral part of The Forestias masterplan, which is situated on the outskirts of Bangkok. The masterplan has been designed by Foster + Partners, through its local entity F&P (Thailand) Ltd.

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Next Portland

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I hope to return to more frequent updates to this site, although I cannot make any commitments. The development, designed by SERA Architects for developer Greystar , will include two buildings with 363 market rate apartments. The site was most recently used as surface parking. The Con-way Master Plan wass approved in 2012.

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