Architecture
SOM Wins Design Competition for New Co-Located Chicago Housing Authority and Public Library Branch
Chicago Housing Authority, and Chicago Public Library announced the winners of a design competition to realize the city’s first co-located housing and public library branches. The initiative forms part of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s vision to...
Architecture
LMN Architects-designed Cleveland Civic Core Complex wins 2017 National Honor Award from American Institute of Architects
LMN Architects, a multidisciplinary design firm with a reputation for distinctive, community-focused projects, announces that the Cleveland Civic Core and Convention Center Complex has been recognized with a 2017 National AIA Honor Award for Regional & Urban Design from...
Architecture
Alstom, ACCIONA and Gulermak are to extend the Metro Red line in Dubai
The Alstom-led consortium Expolink, also composed of ACCIONA and Gulermak, has signed a contract with Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) to design and build the extension of Dubai’s Red metro line and upgrade the system of the existing line....
Architecture
NYU’s Greenwich Village expansion plan gains approval
A controversial plan that will grow NYU’s Greenwich Village campus by 2 million was unanimously approved by the City Council on Wednesday. The vote was 44 to 1. Construction of the first of the new buildings will begin in...
Architecture
Ethiopian Airlines Headquarters competition hit by controversy over links between architect and jury
A collaboration between BET Architects Plc and Soehene Partners Architects has been awarded first place in a competition to design the new headquarters for Ethiopian Airlines at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. The competition has had a turbulent journey,...
Architecture
Erick van Egeraat’s contemporary interpretation of Hamburg design now open
Hamburg’s skyline, until now largely punctuated by soaring spires and turreted towers, has welcomed a new, more contemporary resident - Erick van Egeraat’s Sumatrakontor. This modern interpretation of Speicherstad’s dusky-red brick buildings is sliced...
Architecture
SOM’s newest competition win in China defined by sleek aerodynamic design
The Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) has announced that it has won an international competition to design the Greenland Group Suzhou Center, in Wujiang, China. The 358m supertall tower will...
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