Project Articles

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UI) yesterday celebrated the groundbreaking for the new Siebel Center for Design. The facility, designed by architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson (BCJ), will provide UI students with spaces for making and learning across all disciplines. Architect Peter... View Article

Designed by world-renowned French architect Jean Nouvel, the upcoming National Museum of Qatar is inspired by the desert rose and will combine historic objects and contemporary influences, opening up a dialogue around the impact of rapid change.  This museum will... View Article

One of the world’s largest corporate research campuses is now open for business. At more than 1 million square metres (the equivalent of 152 football pitches), LG Science Park in Seoul’s Magok District unites staff from eight of LG’s Korean... View Article

Seattle’s newest firehouse, designed by architects Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, is now complete. The modern facility, which recently earned LEED Platinum certification, replaces a 40-year-old building in West Seattle’s fast-growing Alaska Junction neighborhood. The 18,000-square-foot station is home to Engine Company 32,... View Article

Bates Smart are delighted to be a member of Doma Group’s winning team for The Store urban development at the Newcastle Transport Interchange. The project will reawaken an important community precinct that, when complete, will link train, bus, light rail... View Article

Award-winning UK construction, refurbishment and fit out contractor, Gilbert-Ash, has recently completed an extensive £16.2m rebuilding and remodelling of UCL’s renowned Faculty of Laws facilities in Camden, London. The works connected the University’s past with its future, fully integrating a... View Article

With stunning views of some of London’s most iconic buildings, the Jin Bo Law skybar opened on 6 April at Dorsett City London in Aldgate. Having won planning permission for the stunning 14th floor roof extension in 2017, Dexter Moren Associates (DMA)... View Article

Lushan Primary School will be an educational institute for 120 children located 160km north-west of Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, and serve 12 local villages with a total population of about 1,800 people. Surrounded by mountains as well as... View Article

LHG (London Hotel Group) secured planning permission on 18th April 2018 to turn a previously consented residential scheme into a 221 room 40,000sqft apart-hotel. Fulfilling the potential of a vacant 0.5-acre brownfield site on Tooting High Street, the development will... View Article

KentPlus YALOVA Wellness SPA Resort in Armutlu – Yalova, a region with a rough topography, mild climate and a spectacular sea view in Turkey, offers a green life for its users as a mixed use complex that combines many different functions such... View Article

Ground-breaking ceremony marks major step forward in transformation of Great Central Station and site of the former Stibbe factory. Masterplanned by AJ100 architects Stephen George + Partners, Leicester’s Connecting Spaces regeneration project will see the transformation of Great Central Station... View Article

Clegg Construction has started work on a new purpose-built Students’ Union building at a West Midlands university. The Nottingham-based company has been chosen as the principal contractor for the £6.5m contract at Aston University in Birmingham on behalf of Aston... View Article

National architectural practice, Corstorphine + Wright has worked with client London and Continental Railways (LCR) to bring their vision for a reborn Leake Street Arches in London to life. The site, which is formed of arches and vaults that run... View Article

fdcreative were approached by architecture and design firm Perkins + Will to be part of a professional international team to design a scheme for the headquarters of Astana Properties, in Astana, Kazakhstan. The 12,500 sq m commercial workplace has a... View Article

Leading architecture firm PRP has secured planning permission from Wiltshire Council on behalf of developer C Squared Property Developments for a ground breaking, private retirement living scheme in the historic market town of Chippenham. Designed by the award-winning ‘Later Living’... View Article

Taiwan announced today the opening in October 2018 of the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying). In a single sweeping building designed by Dutch architects Mecanoo, Weiwuying incorporates five separate state of the art performance spaces, covering a surface... View Article

Tang Interiors, a group company of Colmore Tang Construction, has been appointed to create a brand new conference and events facility at the deluxe four-star Park Regis hotel in Birmingham. The firm – which specialises in refurbishment and interiors for... View Article