MP09 Headquarters der Uniopt Pachleitner Group in Graz, Austria

Designed by GSarchitects, MP09 Headquarters der Uniopt Pachleitner Group is sited in Graz, Austria. Images of cars, aeroplanes and ships were presented to ensure that the invited competitors shared the same vision as the client, however the winning entry was instigated by the image of a crouching black panther, ‘poised ready to spring’. This visualisation [...]

Tags: Austria, Business Partnership, Graz, GS S.p.A., GSarchitects, headquarters of The Pachleitner Group, London, MP09 Headquarters der Uniopt Pachleitner Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, The Pachleitner Group

Armstrong Place Family + Senior Housing in San Francisco, United States

Designed by David Baker + Partners, Armstrong Place Family + Senior Housing is located in San Francisco, United States. This complex development fills a formerly industrial city block with an innovative housing mix, introducing affordable urban townhomes to keep growing families in the city and family housing adjacent to senior apartments to prevent seniors from [...]

Tags: Affordable housing, David Baker, neighbourhood-serving retail space, San Francisco, United States

Wales Institute for Sustainable Education in Machynlleth, Wales, United Kingdom

Wales Institute for Sustainable Education that located in Machynlleth, Wales, United Kingdom, was designed by Pat Borer and David Lea. The WISE building is constructed of materials with low embodied energy: glulam timber frame, hemcrete walls, rammed earth, lime renders, slate, cork, home-grown timber flooring and finishes of natural paints and stains. It is well [...]

Tags: Architectural theory, Architecture, CAT, Centre for Alternative Technology, David Lea, Education, Glued laminated timber, heat recovery systems, Human Interest, low embodied energy, Low-energy building, Machynlleth, Pat Borer, Rammed earth, Sustainable Architecture, sustainable building, sustainable design, Sustainable development, United Kingdom, Wales, Wales Institute, Wales Institute for Sustainable Education, WISE building

Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, United States

The Cowboys Stadium designed by HKS, Inc is located in Arlington, Texas, United States.  A 21st century stadium must work on three fronts: as a branding element for a team, a cultural icon for a city and a commercial venture for its owners. When the stadium is home to the Dallas Cowboys, expectations are heroic. [...]

Tags: Arlington, Cotton Bowl, Cowboys Stadium, Dallas, Dallas Cowboys, Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, HKS Inc., Sports, Texas, United States

Pushkinsky Jewel Cinema in Moscow, Russia

The Pushkinsky Jewel Cinema designed by VONSUNG is located in Moscow, Russia. Named after the Russian author Alexander Pushkin, the Pushkinsky Cinema in Moscow has become renowned in Russia and beyond as a hub of filmatic expression and the home of the Moscow International Film Festival. Recently, science-based products and services company DuPont, the Union [...]

Tags: Alexander Pushkin, author, E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, Literature, Moscow, Pushkin Square, Pushkinsky Cinema, Pushkinsky District, Pushkinsky Jewel Cinema, Russia, Russian literature, the Moscow International Film Festival, Union of Architects in Russia