It's the dream of many to own a castle if were they to become rich, but most who do simply buy one. Michel Guyot though is seeing a Guedelon castle built from scratch, and with attempts to make the construction programme as historically accurate as possible in the process. Read More One of the most surprising things about Jersey is despite its comfortable climate and tax haven status, it's never really embraced high-rise living as other places such as Monaco have, nor seen a massive population boom in recent decades. All of this could be about to change if plans to develop Westmount Quarry in St Helier get completed. Read More At 39 metres and with a mere 11 floors it may not be the tallest high-rise around, but plans for a new Market Hall to stand in Rotterdam certainly make it a unique building. Read More Design work and site preparation is continuing for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, a sprawling warehouse-like structure that has been penned by Christian Kerez, who is a professor at the Federal Technical Institute in Zurich. Read More Soon to be starting construction in the Estonian capital of Tallinn is the new 30,000 square metres Academy of Arts. Read More With what is one of their first commissions since the credit crunch hit, A-cero Architects has started work on Torre Norte Murcia in Murcia, Spain almost four years after the project was originally canned by the developer, Spanish property company, Global Seinco. Read More |
Dnipropetrovsk is a city in the Ukraine that few outside of the country will have heard of but all of that could change if a rather unique looking tower gets underway. Read More The Albanian capital of Tirana is constructing ten new towers in its city centre, the latest of which is called 4-ever Green, a building that will most definitely take after its own name. Read More Danish architecture firm BIG in conjunction with the Danish Architecture Centre is opening an exhibition on the 18th starting at 6pm that will cover some of the best examples of its recent design work ranging from buildings standing in Copenhagen to Beijing. Read More Design work is continuing on the new central railway station in the Norwegian capital, Oslo. Read More |