Bayside Police Station in Sandringham, Australia

Located in Sandringham, Australia, Bayside Police Station was designed by fjmt – Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp. The more public elements of the station are composed within an overarching formal frame, addressing the primary street and lifting the scale of the building to the adjacent Masonic Hall. The building has been designed to create an inviting civic [...]

Tags: Australia, Bayside, Bayside Police Station, Francis - Jones Morehen Thorp, Masonic Hall, Materiality, Sandringham

Holland Park Bungalow completes new villa in Singapore

Designed by TIERRA Design, Holland Park Bungalow completes new villa is located in Singapore. An internal axis enabled each house to look inward towards the common landscape spine which leads to and is focused on the 6th house, the existing conserved villa. The original villa on the crown of the site presides over the 5 [...]

Tags: Asia, BOX villa, Environment, Holland Park Bungalow, Singapore, Villa

Dickinson College, Central Energy Plant in Carlisle, United States

The Dickinson College, Central Energy Plant designed by Spillman Farmer Architects is located in Carlisle, United States.  The new building is a layered creation of brick and aluminium. At the east elevation a stair tower marks a subtle transition from the existing to the new; here, a full-height brick wall continues the mass of the [...]

Tags: Aluminium, Architecture, building materials, Central Energy Plant, Construction, Dickinson College, Eastern Orthodoxy, Freemasonry, Masonry, Materiality, United States, Veil, Wall

Award-winning emerging practice with a focus on cross-sector growth in London, United Kingdom

Designed by studio octopi, studio octopi is located in London, United Kingdom. Emerging from the directors’ experience in residential and exhibition design, the practice is confidently establishing itself across the professional field. The directors regard cross-sector growth as a key objective for a growing and creative practice, from both an intellectual and business perspective. This [...]

Tags: Auditing, Board of directors, Business, Corporate governance, Corporations law, London, Materiality, Octopus, United Kingdom, University of Kent

One York Tribeca in New York, United States

The One York Tribeca designed by TEN ARQUITECTOS is located in New York, United States.  Norten has transformed an industrial, block-long nineteenth century brick building, with a dynamic transparent glass tower, which like a quartz vein running through stone, both fractures and fuses the building, illuminating and clarifying its dense materiality. The faceted intervention organizes [...]

Tags: Brick, Construction, Enrique Norten, Masonry, New York City, TriBeCa, United States, Year of birth missing