Monthly Archives: May 2015
Architizer: A+ Awards 2015 Lens House
This collection of winners from the 2015 Architizer A+ Awards includes ABA’s Lens House, which won in the Large Private House category.
This collection of winners from the 2015 Architizer A+ Awards includes ABA’s Lens House, which won in the Large Private House category.
The A+Awards celebrate the diversity of the world’s architecture. The entrants, from over 100 countries, run the gamut of architectural typology and form, ranging from the tallest towers to the tiniest apartments and everything in between. From a sinuous elevated bike path to a “human-sized birdhouse,” the winners represent the full spectrum of architectural endeavor: There is a next-generation prefab construction method, a pop-up tower “grown” from mushrooms, conscientious renovations in China, and even a radical revitalization of the NYC waterfront.
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Talk: Brick Works!
16.06.2015 10:30, The Building Centre, London, UK
ABA’s Nelson Carvalho spoke at The Brick Development Association’s inaugural Design Day Brick Works at the Building Centre, London.
ABA’s Nelson Carvalho spoke at The Brick Development Association’s inaugural Design Day Brick Works at the Building Centre, London.
Design Day Brick Works is a meeting of contemporary architecture, specialist contracting and artistic interpretation: all focused on brick. It is a high-profile event conceived by the BDA as the champion for current and future use of brick products.
The central focus will be an exploration of the creative potential for brick in contemporary architecture. Designers as diverse as Jo Morris of Duggan Morris, Alfred Munkenbeck from Munkenback and Partners and Stirling prize winner Alison Brooks will consider their own interpretations of the material amongst a host of other architectural speakers while leading contractors discuss the practical challenges faced in turning the designs into reality on site.
Speakers:
- Alison Brooks, Alison Brooks Architects
- Jo Morris, Duggan Morris
- Alfred Munkenbeck, Munkenback and Partners
- Adam Brown, Landolt + Brown
- Alexis Harrison, ARUP
- Jonathan Dawes, Cottrell and Vermeulen architects
- Pete Croney, Swift Brickwork
- Paul Dewick, Boxmoor Construction
- Dennis Ansell, Ancon
Artists:
- Alex Chinneck
- Fernando Casasempere
- Iain Howlett
- Damelza Watts
- Maki Suzuki
South Kilburn Estate Regeneration: Phase 2A demolition video Kilburn Quarter
This time-lapse footage from the demolition of Bronte and Fielding House in South Kilburn, September 2014, shows the future site of ABA’s scheme for South Kilburn Estate Regeneration: Phase 2A, which is now under construction.
This time-lapse footage from the demolition of Bronte and Fielding House in South Kilburn, September 2014, shows the future site of ABA’s scheme for South Kilburn Estate Regeneration: Phase 2A, which is now under construction.
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South Kilburn top out
Construction has reached roof level at the South Block of South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Phase 2A.
Construction has reached roof level at the South Block of South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Phase 2A.
ABA’s South Block, within a 229 unit scheme designed by Alison Brooks Architects and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, is being delivered by Network Housing Group and United House as part of the London Borough of Brent’s South Kilburn Regeneration Programme.
With diamond shaped columns and 100% double aspect flats, ABA’s distinctively shaped point block to the south of the site is currently emerging out of the ground. More updates to follow as construction progresses.
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Completion near at South Kilburn Ely Court
Phase 1A of the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration project is nearing completion on site.
Phase 1A of the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration project is nearing completion on site.
ABA’s scheme for Phase 1A is a collection of three building typologies of up to four storeys: apartment terrace, flatiron building and mews houses knitted between existing eleven storey apartment blocks. Street frontages are animated with front porches, recessed balconies and roof gardens create a layering of landscape and highly articulated, rhythmic facades.
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South Kilburn on site
Pace is gathering on site as all four building frames are now under construction at South Kilburn Estate Regeneration: Phase 2A for London Borough of Brent.
Pace is gathering on site as all four building frames are now under construction at South Kilburn Estate Regeneration: Phase 2A for London Borough of Brent.
The scheme creates a new residential quarter of mansion terraces and point blocks framing private communal gardens, with a new civic square and pedestrian boulevard at Kilburn Park Road to help strengthen the neighbourhoods connections to the wider community.
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