Designed by Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, King Edward VII Memorial Hospital is located in Hamilton, Bermuda. The inpatient care floors are organised around a ‘doughnut’ shaped footprint forming a four storey central atrium, the heart of the new hospital facility. The patient care footprint is fragmented into 4 ‘rotated’ blocks to reduce the impact of the scale of this extruded...
Reykjavik, Iceland that located in Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre, was designed by Henning Larsen Architects. Arguably the most noteworthy feature of the building is its kaleidoscopic facade, designed by HLA and Olafur Eliasson whose newly opened ‘Your Rainbow Panorama’ installation rests atop schmidt hammer lassen’s ARoS Museum in Aarhus. The glittering facade has been inspired by...
The Art Gallery of Saskatchewan designed by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects is located in Canada. Designs have just been unveiled for a new art gallery in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, showing a series of interlocking boxes in a variety of transparencies. Presented by His Worship Mayor Donald Atchison and Chair of the Mendel Art Gallery and Art Gallery of Saskatchewan Board of Trustees...
l Island, largest single building designed by Foster + Partners is located in Moscow, Russia. Conceived as a self-contained city within a city, it contains a rich mix of buildings including museums, theatres and cinemas, to ensure that it is a major new destination for the whole of Moscow. Located on the Nagatino Peninsula, edged by the Moscow River, it is located only 7.5 km from the Kremlin, and...
The St Mary’s Church of England Primary School designed by Archial Group plc is located in Handsworth, United Kingdom. The award-winning practice, part of the AIM-listed UK-wide SMC Group, completed the design and project management of the two-storey facility as part of a five-year framework agreement with Birmingham City Council to improve the city’s schools of which the company has now...