Douglas and King Architects master plan to reinvigorate Shoreditch takes on a complex dual challenge. Broadly, there is the challenge at the core of any masterplanning project: creating a set of elements that flow together seamlessly with one another and their overall context. But more specifically, the project grapples with a tight triangular site and an already-lively urban context. The architects' masterplan transforms this neglected urban block into 70,000 square feet of new work space, retail, and other commercial accommodations. The design is driven by the site's unusual shape,... >>>

The construction of the House of Hungarian Music, planned by the star architect, Sou Fujimoto is soon to begin as part of Europe's largest museum development, Liget Budapest Project. In 2014 through an anonymous international contest the Japanese architect's work has been chosen for the new institute for music in the city park of Budapest, Hungary. During the design stage, Fujimoto drew inspiration from both the worlds of nature and... >>>