OMA designs jigsaw-like office in Amsterdam

Brought to you by: Architect: OMA Location: Amsterdam Completion Date: December 2023 View More Project Info In 1985 the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) entered a competition to design a bank headquarters for J.P. Morgan in Amsterdam’s Oud-Zuid neighborhood. The fledgling firm ultimately lost the bid to Wim Quist, the celebrated Dutch modernist. OMA has

Renzo Piano Building Workshop designs Ontario Court of Justice

Brought to you by: Architect:Renzo Piano Building Workshop Location: Toronto, Ontario Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) has announced the completion of a new facility for the Ontario Court of Justice. The largest courthouse in Ontario will consolidate the court’s various offices and functions previously housed across separate facilities.

gh3* uses open weave brick pattern for Windermere Fire Station

Brought to you by: Architect: gh3* Completion Date: June 2023 Location: Edmonton, Alberta View More Project Info Canadian architectural office gh3* has designed a new fire station in the Windermere neighborhood of Edmonton, Alberta. The net-zero building is powered by a rooftop photovoltaic array and geothermal heat pump. The building’s massing takes elements from traditional

KPF wraps 320 Granville in Vancouver with a curved curtain wall

Brought to you by: Architect: KPF Location: Vancouver Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info A Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)–designed office tower, named after its address, 320 Granville, has completed construction in Vancouver. The building is located in the city’s Central Waterfront Hub, an area which straddles Vancouver’s downtown commercial hub and borders Waterfront Station,

Koning Eizenberg Architecture designs University of Melbourne Student Pavilion

Brought to you by: Architect: KoningEizenberg Architecture Location: Melbourne, Australia Completion Date: February 2023 Los Angeles–based design studio KoningEizenberg Architecture (KEA) has completed construction on a new student pavilion for the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Circulation on the new concrete building was pushed to the exterior, which is detailed with extruded balconies, wood

MJMA clads Ontario community center in standing seam metal panels

Brought to you by: Architect: MJMA Architecture & Design Location: London, Ontario Completion Date: 2022 At East Lions park in London, Ontario, MJMA Architecture & Design completed an overhaul of the park’s recreation facilities, circulation, and landscaping. The firm also designed a brand new community center that replaces a disused outdoor pool. Clad in standing

Glass prisms compose OSO’s Deloitte Summit tower in Vancouver

Brought to you by: Architect: OSO Location: Vancouver Completion Date: 2023 An office tower composed of a shifting cluster of glass boxes, straddles Vancouver’s Business district and cultural center. Designed by the Japanese firm OSO for Deloitte, one of the big four accounting firms, the building attempts to balance the character of the city’s business

RDHA designs a polished aluminum facade for generator tower

Brought to you by: Architect: RDHA Location: Toronto Completion Date: 2023 Toronto-based studio RDHA has designed a new emergency generator tower for Metrolinx, the agency responsible for public transit in Toronto. The generator will be put to use in emergency situations, to power Toronto’s Union Station. RDHA’s generator was built adjacent to a defunct signal

KPMB’s The Leaf features a state-of-the-art ETFE roof

Brought to you by: Architect:KPMB Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Completion Date:2022 In 2018, Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park Conservatory closed its doors pending the demolition of its original 1914 building last renovated in 1968. The Leaf, the state-of-the-art successor to the Conservancy’s original botanical garden, by KPMB Architects, completed last year. A defining element of the new

In Vietnam, a brick screen shades Tropical Space’s Premier Office

Brought to you by: Architect:Tropical Space Completion Date:2022 Location:Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Vietnamese architecture firm Tropical Space has devised a new office building in Ho Chi Minh City. The project, named Premier Office, utilizes complex brick masonry to achieve a comfortable balance of natural light, shading, and ventilation. The brick screens are oriented to

MVRDV reclads tower in colorful panels for women and children’s center

  Brought to you by: Architect: MVRDV Location: Shenzhen, China Completion Date: September, 2023 The Rotterdam-based firm MVRDV recently announced the completion of the Shenzhen Women and Children’s Center. The project involved the adaptive reuse of a tower that was originally constructed in 1994, but was never fully occupied due to insufficient fireproofing measures. The tower had

In Germany, Texoversum features a woven fiber facade

  Brought to you by: Architect: Allmannwappner, Menges Scheffler Architekten Location:Reutlingen, Germany Completion Date: 2023 German firms Allmannwappner and Menges Scheffler Architekten collaborated to design Texoversum, a new facility for Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences’ School of Textiles & Design. The new building is part of a larger expansion masterplan for the University. The facade

Stanton Williams designs textured-concrete forms for UCL’s Marshgate

Brought to you by: Architect: Stanton Williams Completion Date: September 2023 Location: London Located in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on the East side of London, the Marshgate building is a brand new facility for the University College London (UCL) designed by the Stirling Prize–winning architectural firm Stanton Williams. The imposing concrete building found precedent in

Facades+ returns to Denver on September 27

On September 27, The Architect’s Newspaper’s Facades+ conference series returns to Denver. The conference will be co-chaired by Brandon Andow, principal at HKS. Hosted at The Cable Center in downtown Denver, the conference will include a Methods & Materials Gallery, exhibiting the latest products from facade manufacturers, as well as a symposium room, which will

Trace Architecture Office erects colorful concrete volumes for school

Brought to you by: Architect: Trace Architecture Office Location: Haikou, Hainan, China Completion Date: July 2022 Trace Architecture Office’s (TAO) latest educational project, the Haikou Jiangdong Hundao Experimental School is located in Haikou, the coastal capital of China’s Hainan province. The nearly 700,000-square-foot campus contains a high school, student dormitory, and a kindergarten. Read more

OLI creates a floating campus in Suzhou with facades realized in glass and GFRC

Brought to you by: Design Architect: OLI Architecture Location: Suzhou, China Completion Date: 2023 Floating over a reflecting pool in Suzhou, China, the Ascentage Pharmaceutical Headquarters, designed by New York–based OLI Architecture, stretches upward beneath a unique, parametric exterior facade. Created for a young Hong Kong pharmaceutical company, the glass facade references the hexagonal structure

Miller Hull devises glazed Brise-soleil for U.S. embassy in Guatemala

Brought to you by: Design Architect: Miller Hull Partnership Location: Guatemala City, Guatemala Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info In 1999 in an effort to improve embassy security, the U.S. State Department launched its Capital Security Construction Program. Since then the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (OBO) has completed 176