The building is one of Melbourne’s recent landmarks, completed over a decade ago. Back in 1994, Australian Architecture firm Denton Corker Marshall won an international competition to design a new campus for the Museum of Victoria. Now known as ‘Melbourne Museum’, it is the primary and largest site for Victoria’s most important cultural institution.
The museum comprises exhibition clusters, an Imax theatre, a touring exhibition hall, a separate Children’s Museum and an Aboriginal Cultural Centre, as well as research and administration facilities in a 70,000m2 campus of building forms.

The National Gymnastics Centre Pegan Petkovšek is part of the comprehensive renovation of Svoboda Sports Park in Ljubljana. It is the first of the three sports halls that are to be built on the western edge of a belt between an access street on one side and a large greened park layout with sports grounds on the other. The building of the gymnastics centre is placed on the northernmost part of this belt.

The northern and western edge of the building reference the building line regulated by the spatial acts, which also stipulate the greatest built ratio and the height of the building. The strict urbanistic regulations necessitate a very compact design that allows for little deviation.

The new corporate headquarters of a young L.A. based company iCrete, recently designed by Felderman Keatinge + Associates. The client desired an open and minimalist space; an environment that would foster innovative thinking and encourage interaction among employees. To this purpose, the designers created a non-traditional space that expresses the nature of iCrete’s concrete product. 

Hawkins\Brown’s striking glazed Corby Cube, the focal point of a major regeneration program to revitalize the former steel making town in Northants, UK has completed and is now open to the public.

Won in international competition in 2004, the Corby Cube combines a diverse program of civic and arts uses into a new model for civic architecture.

Maximizing its central location at the heart of a new town square, the building’s array of uses are arranged around an internal ‘promenade architecturale’ composed into a coherent glazed cube form with four ‘live’ elevations, each articulating the uses contained within.

 









The tower E.I.O.5 is a social housing project,  located in a newly developped central area of Barcelona  known as Plaça Europa (Europa Square).

The urban model of the Europa Square provides a generous public space opened to each side of Gran Via and includes 26 mainly residential towers whose height vary  between 15 and 20 floors. Tower 5 is located in the farthest crown from the Gran Via which runs half- undergrounded.

In all the buildings of the last ring, most of them public housing produced by different promoters,  the master planning laws fixed the  floor dimension not to exceed 24x24m, as well as height in which should be located the first floor structure (slab) and the crowing point of the towers.

This project was the object of public competition back in  2005.  The architects proposed rescaling the tower according to its position as a perpheral project within the whole development.

The RSF is a large-scale office building housing more than 800 people who support and conduct research work. The building also houses a data center that serves the entire NREL campus. NREL and DOE's goal is to transform innovative research in renewable energy and energy efficiency into market-viable technologies and practices. This building was conceived to serve as an example of these ideas and a living laboratory for the staff of the RSF to learn from and work by, providing a high-performance workplace and aiming at operating at net-zero energy on an annual basis.The building's narrow, H-shaped footprint Photo by Frank Ooms

The project is recipient of the 2011 AIA COTE Awards, and the article is an abbreviated version of the one posted on AIA’s web site.

Rafael Viñoly Architects has just announced the completion of the Clyde F. Barker Penn Transplant House   Named after the physician who performed the first kidney transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, the Barker Transplant House will offer comfortable, convenient accommodations in a supportive community setting and at a nominal cost. 

All photographs ⓒTy Cole

Conceived as a ‘home away from home,’ the site will house transplant patients at subsidized rates and offer comfortable hotel rooms where guests can reside while navigating these emotionally and financially difficult situations.  The building is being partially funded by public donations and the design and construction teams (including Rafael Viñoly Architects) worked on a pro-bono basis.