Architecture
Construction starts on Smith and Gill’s ice-inspired skyscraper for Chengdu
Hollow concrete blocks form a textured frontage for Wuyang Architecture’s student shower block
David Chipperfield’s City of Culture nears completion in Milan
Heatherwick’s Garden Bridge will require groups of eight or more to “request a formal visit”
Renzo Piano reconfigures Harvard Art Museums around a grand courtyard atrium
Frank Gehry’s Sydney business school completed ahead of 2015 opening
Thomas Heatherwick to build $130 million “treasure island” on New York’s Hudson River
Melbourne floats proposal for artificial surf park
Copper-clad chapel in Finland has a curving wooden frame like a ship’s hull
Black house by Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher is raised above a bathing lake
Badajoz Fine Arts Museum extensions feature speckled walls and bevelled edges
COBE team trumps Kengo Kuma in Danish railway station contest
Studio GAON converts concrete warehouse into a couple’s first home
New York’s 2018 skyline revealed in visualisations
Czech and UK architects win Prague housing project
Raumlabor builds a grass-covered enclosure around a Montreal fountain
Herzog & de Meuron’s triangular tower rejected by Paris councillors
Twin Peaks House by Apparat-C has a zigzagging roof profile
Assen Station redesign by Powerhouse Company and De Zwarte Hond to feature triangular roof
Six inverted arches outline the roof of Shonan Christ Church by Takeshi Hosaka
House by Philip Stejskal can be “locked down” with shutters that blend into the facade
TAKA completes brick and concrete pavilion for a Dublin cricket club
“It’s no surprise that the government were reluctant to let members of the public in”
