Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center that located in Asheville, North Carolina, United States, was designed by Lord Aeck Sargent Architecture. The Blue Ridge Parkway is one of the first and longest rural parkways in America, winding 496 miles through scenic mountain ranges and past seemingly endless vistas. So when the National Park Service decided the area needed a destination center to orient visitors...
Located in London, United Kingdom, Riva Hotel, designed by Foster + Partners’ for a new five-star hotel on Bath Road, close to Heathrow Airport has been approved by the Mayor of London. The only five-star hotel in the area, it will offer a range of services, including the most extensive conference facilities of any London hotel, to serve the local community and businesses, as well as passengers using...
The University of Chicago Law Library designed by OWP/P Cannon Design is located in Chicago, United States. The extensive renovation of the University of Chicago’s law library, originally designed by Eero Saarinen in 1959, respected the mid-century modern building yet improved functionality, quality and experience. The design recognised the original vision – keeping the spirit and structural...
Designed by Clive Wilkinson Architects, One Shelley Street, Flexible and Dynamic Workspace is located in Sydney, Australia. Integrated with a base building design from Fitzpatrick and Partners and supported by executive architect Woods Bagot, both in Sydney, Clive Wilkinson Architects proposed a design solution that opens up the 10-story atrium vertically, showcasing cantilevered meeting pods that...
Las Fallas is a Day Nineteen annual traditional festival celebrated in Valencia, Spain. The festival has its origins in the eighteenth century, when carpenters burned the remains of a rigorous work winters in honor of their patron St. Joseph. Over the years, lots of leftovers turned into huge statues of wood and paper, known as La falla, humorously criticizing society. The actual statues are often...