Designed by and collaboration with Edward J. Cuhaci and Associates Architects, the new Algonquin Centre for Construction Excellence (ACCE) at Algonquin College’s Ottawa campus that located in Ottawa, Canada, is a showpiece for innovative learning within the field of skilled trades. The Centre for Construction Excellence at Algonquin College, scheduled to open in the fall of 2011, helps to address the current skills shortage in the construction industry by providing classrooms, studios, laboratories and shops for 600 construction students as well as thousands more studying in related programs. Designed for LEED Platinum certification, the architectural design will be a showcase and teaching laboratory for best practices in sustainable construction. Read more »
Designed by , the University of Maine Student Recreation and Fitness Center is located in Orono, United States. As the largest construction building project to date on the University of Maine’s campus, the Student Recreation & Fitness Center fulfills the mission of the University to create an attractive campus with quality programs that enhance the learning environment. The 88,000 sq ft facility is comprised of three major elements – natatorium, courts and fitness, connected horizontally and vertically by a two-storey north/south and east/west circulation spine. Read more »
This transparent and sustainable home design, called Poets House is a 50,000 volume library and learning center that located in Battery Park City, New York, United States. Designed by , Poets House awarded LEED Gold home, that speaks to its founder for its physical transparency beckons all people and voices of poetry to come inside. These spatial elements as the double height glass entry incorporating an oval glass exhibition space and the children’s library serve as a beacon to invite the community to enter. Read more »
Designed by in London, United Kingdom, the Grosvenor Waterside Development is startlingly modern block of flats, two residential buildings that exceptional affordable sustainable home designs with contemporary architecture style. An innovative approach was required to ensure these buildings represented the highest architectural design quality and individuality and with this in mind an art strategy was integrated into the building design from the outset. Make Architects collaborated with the artist Claire Woods to design a vast artwork which wraps the two buildings and visually binds them into a striking whole. The design evokes elements of the site’s history and is etched into the panels so that it flickers in and out of view as prevailing light conditions fluctuate. Read more »
The Olive 8 that located in the Denny Triangle area of Downtown Seattle, United States is a hotel and residential high-rise tower was designed by , and has completed in venture with Gluckman Mayner Architects. With 39-storey project, the Olive green was developed by the R.C. Hedreen Company at the southwest corner of 8th and Olive, includes luxury one-and two-bedroom residential units, as well as penthouses, atop a full-service Hyatt Hotel. Read more »
Making an attempt at distinction in London’s Isle of Dogs, Angel House is awaiting the go-ahead to be built at the junction of Marsh Wall and Limeharbour. Designed by architect Jacobs Webber for Angel House Developments Ltd, the tower has been dubbed ‘Number 1′ due to it’s form created by the cantilevered head. The scheme’s [...]
