20 Gresham Street that located in London, United Kingdom, was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. Located diagonally opposite the City of London’s Guildhall entrance at the corner of Milk Street, the building reveals its true complexity when approached from the Bank of England at the Eastern end of Gresham Street. The Milk Street/Gresham Street corner is highly visible, due to the geography...
The Wissioming Residence, designed by Robert M. Gurney, FAIA located in Glen Echo, Maryland, is sited on a heavily wooded lot overlooking the Potomac River. The new house occupies a pre-existing house’s footprint in an effort to minimally disturb the site, removing no mature hardwoods in the process. A new swimming pool is suspended twenty feet above grade to further reduce the impact to the steeply...
The Newcastle City Library designed by Ryder Architecture is located in Newcastle, United Kingdom. A building to ‘delight and inspire’ was the guiding principle. The library combines performance and beauty. It is environmentally responsible, inclusive and fun – a ‘living room for the city’. The library provides a model for C21 library facilities, including access to books and...
Designed by MARTINEZ+JOHNSON ARCHITECTURE, Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center is located in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Washington DC-based design practice Martinez Johnson Architecture present their entry for the Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center (KPOP) competition in Taiwan. The basis for the competition – also featuring designs from STL – is to reinforce the city’s...
Located in Madrid, Spain, Dwelling in Pozuelo de Alarcón was designed by A-cero. Its modern design is based on ‘impossible’ angles; the protruding and spectacular volumes one of A-cero’s winning trademarks. The façade of the house is made of travertino marble which is combined with dark grey granite in several areas, for example in the vertical plane of the main façade. In the main entrance...