The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition designed by Royal Academy of Arts is located in London, United Kingdom. The Architecture Room has become an essential constituent of this annual event, with high profile industry figures invited to lend a seasoned hand to its curation. This year it was the turn of CZWG architect and WAN juror Piers Gough and Alan Stanton of Stanton Williams, whose inventively...
WAN AWARDS 2011 Healthcare Sector this modest yet considered approach was also favoured by our unbuilt panel, who chose Perkins+Will’s Kenyan Women and Children’s Wellness Centre in Nairobi as their winning scheme. Remote juror Mette Blicher Folmer was keen to express her opinion that the concept’s design team ‘have used shadowing, space size and texture of the materials in a very human and...
Designed by BFLS, Extreme Light Infrastructure Facility is located in Czech Republic. BFLS is one of a growing number of practices relying on WAN to provide a consistent source of international leads for projects. The prestigious ELI project marks a new chapter in European scientific research when the facility starts operating in 2015 at Dolní B?ežany near Prague. This type of laser technology is...
The Nanjing Sifang Art Museum First museum designed by Steven Holl Architects is located in China. Over the past few months WAN has covered a plethora of concept designs in the Tier Two city of Nanjing in China, including Populous’ masterplan for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games, the Nanjing City Concept by CK Designworks and BDP’s Nanjing Medical University. The capital of Jiangsu Province is a...
Emerging practice claims ‘the only thing we take care in achieving is architecture’ that located in Porto, Portugal, was designed by Nuno Valentim, Arquitectura e Reabilitacao. Some contemporary architects seem preoccupied with the production of iconic buildings, sustainable, original and innovative architecture. Nuno Valentim’s application to the WAN 21 for 21 Awards is not an expression...