– The Beauty of Boundaries: Snøhetta’s design, created upon the theme The Beauty of Boundaries – based on the ideas of Peter Richter – has been selected for Norway’s new banknotes.
– One Central Park: One Central Park (OCP), by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, is an innovative and environmentally ambitious landmark project within the redevelopment of the Carlton & United Brewery site in Sydney.
– Villa by the lake: Vienna-based young architect Alexander Diem completed a villa by a lake in Western Austria with a distinctive wooden facade that takes up the rustic patterns of the region and allows to control the degree of desired privacy.
– La Défense: exploring the Parisian district of La Défense, whose devolepment started in 1958, is like floating in an uncertain reality, in the model of a futuristic town inhabited, but not really lived.
– ENDESA Condenser: the pavilion is a prototype that explores connections between parametric design, passive environmental strategies and local digital fabrication.
– Koro House: Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates’ Koro House wants to be a suggestion for Japan’s new residential area: a house in the middle of a planted garden, without any fence, with a polygonal plan that receive the sunlight from different angles.
– Florida Polytechnic: Santiago Calatrava signed the master plan for the new Florida Polytechnic campus: a project that reflects the important role that the landscape plays in central Florida and creates an iconic structure.
– H2O Bilbao: Patricia Urquiola has reinterpreted the Basque Kaiku for the ceramic pitcher produced by Bosa, that will be used in the Bilbao restaurants to serve tap water from the civic aqueduct.
– Washing Place: the project, designed by Maio design team, involves the conversion of a space that formerly housed a washing place into an architecture and design open studio.
– Holcim Awards 2014: Holcim Awards for Europe awarded three resilient projects in Austria, France and Italy that develop sophisticated responses to the challenges facing the building industry.
– Hacked by design: a selection of Moleskine notebooks filled and hacked by famous designers and dispersed across the city formed a multi‐location installation during the London Design Festival 2014.
– Plywood House: Simon Astridge’s project for this extensions and refurbishment of a Victorian house in London features just five material: concrete, plywood, brickwork, natural stone and the sky.
– Unveiling Japanese Design: Nendo curated the exhibition “Hidden – Unveiling Japanese Design”, representing three keywords that best describe Japanese design: behind, inside and before.
– Orwell: designed by Goula / Figuera Design Studio, Orwell is a piece of furniture somewhere between a sofa, a bed, and a “cabin” that invites you to rest it in its interior.
– Paddington footbridge: inaugurated in September, the new movable footbridge designed by Knight Architects in the heart of Merchant Square, London, is part of a wider urban development program.