BREEAM Outstanding

Soho Place est un énorme puzzle urbain qui bâtit sur l'arrivée de Crossrail pour soutenir la régénération à grande échelle de l'extrémité est d'Oxford Street. Deux nouveaux immeubles à usage mixte bâtissent une nouvelle place civique, Soho Place, qui amplifie la régénération urbaine d'Oxford Street, crée de nouvelles perspectives urbaines vers l'église St Patrick et relie Charing Cross Road à Soho Square. Il s'agit de la dernière itération d'une initiative de recherche à long terme entre Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) et Derwent London, qui a également produit des projets primés... En savoir plus

Penoyre & Prasad complete first-of-its-kind research lab to simulate the urban environment. ● PEARL – the Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory – is UCL’s first projected net-zero carbon in-use building. ● PEARL is a new and unique research facility for the creation of full-sized environments to test how people use infrastructure and cities, with the goal of improving urban design, for a more accessible and sustainable future.  ● Highly adaptable research and collaborative workspaces serve as a prototype for new post-Covid ways of working.  Timothy Soar London-based architecture practice Penoyre & Prasad, a studio of Perkins&Will, has completed UCL’s unique research laborat... En savoir plus

Norwegian furniture manufacturer Vestre and BIG reveal THE PLUS – a new furniture factory, experience center, and 300-acre public park. The colorful manufacturing village is dedicated to the cleanest, carbon-neutral fabrication of urban furniture, leading the way for manufacturing facilities and high-efficiency production of the future. Einar Aslaksen Norway’s single largest investment in furniture industry in decades, the 7,000 m2 production facility doubles as a public park for hiking and camping and aligns with the region’s mission to establish a green manufacturing hub outside of Oslo. Constructed in just 18 months, the building is made of local mass timber, low-carbon concrete, and recycled steel, and is set to... En savoir plus

The Student Centre is built on what was the last piece of undeveloped land on Gordon Street, adjacent to the Bloomsbury Theatre. The sensitive site sits within the Bloomsbury Conservation Area and is adjacent to Grade I and II listed buildings. A collaborative approach was adopted for the project and the design team worked with planners and stakeholders. Consultations were carried out with a range of external stakeholders and neighbours, with plans strongly supported by the Design Council CABE and Historic England. The project has created a new civic realm in the Bloomsbury Campus, resolving circulation routes and refreshing the existing Japanese Garden as a tranquil urban courtyard. It has ten storeys offering 1,000 study spaces, a studen... En savoir plus

On Monday September 13, outgoing Minister of Education, Culture and Science Ingrid Van Engelshoven opened the new Collection Centre Netherlands (CC NL) in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. The non-permanently exhibited art and heritage pieces of the Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands Open Air Museum, Paleis Het Loo and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands are brought together in the CC NL. cepezed and cepezed interior designed the building, in close collaboration with ABT for the stability, Valstar Simonis for the installations and Peutz for building physics and sustainability. cepezed | Lucas van der Wee 500,000 objectsThe CC NL stores approximately half a million objects. These range from paintings to sculptures, jewellery, clothing... En savoir plus

mThe new Student Centre forms part of a major transformation for University College London, setting a benchmark of excellence for all future UCL development projects. © Alan Williams The flagship building provides a progressive and flexible environment for students, supporting their needs and learning in the heart of the Bloomsbury campus. © Alan Williams BREEAM Outstanding, it has been designed to achieve exemplary sustainability targets. The building has been constructed on the last piece of undeveloped land on Gordon Street, adjacent to the Bloomsbury Theatre. The project adds to UCL’s rich heritage of distinguished architecture and its commitment to strengthening the public realm and character of the Bloomsbu... En savoir plus

The Elysion Congress Centre will be a new state-of-the-art congress and conference centre in the Dutch city of Eindhoven. Serving as a highly visible building, it will enhance Eindhoven's international positioning as an inspiring region of technology, design and knowledge, where Brainport Eindhoven represents one of the leading innovative technology regions in Europe. To form the Elysion Consortium that will build, finance and operate a congress and conference centre on an international level, UNStudio and DVP (Diepenhorst de Vos and Partners) joined forces with Van der Valk as client/operator and HuybrechtsRelou as contractor (see full consortium list below). Together with Van der Valk's design team and additional specialists, the consort... En savoir plus

ING a déménagé son bureau international au Bijlmerdreef, au sud-est d'Amsterdam (une zone résidentielle et commerciale). Plusieurs bureaux d'ING y sont déjà installés. Ce déménagement s'inscrit dans le cadre de la stratégie "Think Forward" d'ING, mise en œuvre en 2014, qui met l'accent sur l'innovation, la flexibilité et l'appartenance à la communauté. Le nouveau bureau s'inscrit dans un environnement animé, où l'espace entre les différents bureaux, la multitude de voies de communication et la qualité de l'espace extérieur seront presque aussi importants que les bâtiments eux-mêmes.Benthem Crouwel A... En savoir plus

Norway’s most modern and highest environmentally classified education building   Hortenupper secondary school won the international sustainable BREEAM Awards 2019 for best public sector building at the design stage. The project is referred to as an example of a future-oriented learning environment and is Norway’s most modern and highest environmentally classified education building. The building is innovative and avantgarde in terms of environmental solutions will generate more energy than it consumes.   The school is located in the city park Lystlunden in the center of Horten and is designed for 1200 students and 200 employees. The school opened in August 2019.   The project set high ambitions in terms of... En savoir plus

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has opened its latest landmark building to students, staff and alumni. The Centre Building, which has a £78m construction cost as part of an overall investment of £125m in developing the centre of LSE’s campus [A], was designed by internationally renowned architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and delivered by international consultancy and construction company Mace. Situated at the heart of LSE’s campus, on Houghton Street and Clare Market, the 13-storey building is the largest building commissioned in LSE’s history. A bold and beautiful design, it is also the highest building on campus, offering spectacular views across London’s skyline. Julian Robinson, Director of E... En savoir plus

Snøhetta Completes Powerhouse Brattørkaia – the World’s Northernmost Energy-Positive BuildingThe energy sector and building industry accounts for over 40 % of global industry’s heat-trapping emissions combined, according to the World Resources Institute. As the world’s population and the severity of the climate crisis continue to grow, we are challenged to think how to build responsibly – creating high quality spaces for people while also reducing our environmental footprint. As the world’s northernmost energy-positive building, Powerhouse Brattørkaia aims to set a new standard for the construction of the buildings of tomorrow: one that produces more energy than it consumes over its lifespan, including construction and demolition.Powerhouse... En savoir plus

Four Pancras Square, designed by Eric Parry Architects on behalf of King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership, is the final building to complete in Pancras Square, at the gateway to King’s Cross. One of eight office buildings in the square, Four Pancras Square has been designed to complement the surrounding urban fabric of the wider King’s Cross development. The 11-storey building offers 176,000sq ft of Grade A office space with ground floor retail; the office has been fully let to music giant Universal Music for occupation in 2018. The use of material, including a striking corten façade, and the structure of the building recall the heroic engineering of the industrial revolution and the railways that enabled the expansion of London, while a... En savoir plus