Build Focus
The Alisher Navoi International Scientific Research Centre in New Tashkent will incorporate the Navoi State Museum of Literature together with a 400-seat auditorium for performances, events and conferences. The design also comprises the International Research Centre and a residential school for 200 students specialising in Uzbek language, literature and music.
A new development by Muraba and Pritzker Prize laureate (2017), RCR Arquitectes has introduced a contemporary style of architecture that draws upon vernacular heritage and tradition to its latest collaborative project, Muraba Veil.
De Matos Ryan has collaborated with renowned Interior Designer Dorothée Meilichzon (CHZON) to create a new pavilion building for Cowley Manor.
Hanwha Galleria, a famous shopping centre in Seoul, will be given a Heatherwick studio makeover following a competition to reimagine six sites in the South Korean capital. The brief asked for a design that will challenge conventional notions of a luxury department store and affirm the country’s increasingly influential role as a global cultural powerhouse.
Leading UK architecture firm Corstorphine & Wright has announced the completion of The Scoop, a unique concave office building in Southwark, London. The innovative design reuses an existing building and integrates a conical cut-out facade in white-glazed bricks, creating a playful and novel response to the site’s context and neighbouring church.