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Kangaroo Island Air Terminal / Ashley Halliday

February 22, 2019 Martita Vial 0

The Kangaroo Island Air Terminal is more than a regional air transport hub, it is a unique world-class cultural venue. More than a landmark, image or icon, it is the product and instigator of dialogue – interaction and exchange between people, with the terminal and its breathtaking natural setting. 

10 designs worth knowing by the late Alessandro Mendini

February 22, 2019 Amy Frearson 0
Alessandro Mendini

Following the death of influential Italian architect, designer and theorist Alessandro Mendini this week, here’s a look at 10 projects completed across his 60-year career, from the seminal Proust chair to a chequered bus stop. Proust armchair, 1978 Mendini’s most iconic project, the revolutionary Proust combined a baroque shape with a pointillist surface pattern derived from

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denmark’s roskilde festival folk high school completed by MVRDV + COBE

February 22, 2019 macnadusa 0

MVRDV and COBE present the roskilde festival folk high school, designed on a once industrial site in roskilde, denmark. inside an existing factory hall, the school along with new student housing are the final pieces of MVRDV and COBE’s rockmagneten masterplan. the project, which broke ground in early 2017, joins the adjacent ragnarock museum, inaugurated in 2016. the high […]

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Murray Centre, Downe House School / Design Engine Architects

February 22, 2019 Rayen Sagredo 0

Following an invited design competition in 2013, we were commissioned to develop proposals for a visually and experientially inspiring building that would sit at the heart of the campus and serve as a hub for some of the key spaces of learning and day-to-day activities: a new library, multi-purpose auditorium, teaching spaces, cafe, shop, social space, offices and sixth form supporting spaces. Crucially, the centre was also envisaged as an environment which acts as a stepping-stone towards the experiences of Higher Education.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro unveils “eroded” building for University of Toronto

February 22, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
University of Toronto by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

New York architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has revealed it design for a new campus building at the University of Toronto, featuring indented floors that cut into one side. Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)’s 90 Queen’s Park will be a multidisciplinary facility, intended as a “hub for urban and cultural engagement” for the University of

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