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Link to image Link to Set Msheireb Downtown Doha is the world's first sustainable downtown regeneration project, that will revive the old commercial district with a new architectural language that is modern, yet inspired by traditional Qatari heritage and architecture – its proportion, simplicity, space, light, layering, ornament and response to climate. Msheireb Downtown Doha… Read more »

Link to image Link to Set The Norwegian National Architecture Museum, completed in 2008, was Sverre Fehn's last project. He converted the former headquarters of the Central Bank, built in 1830 in Empire style by Christian Heinrich Grosch, and added a pavilion extension. Sverre Fehn used his characteristic, and restrained, palette of materials throughout: oak,… Read more »

Link to image Link to Set Sited within the South Downs National Park, this project transforms a detached single-storey house originally built in the 1960s. The house has been reorganised as three linear volumes, each directing views over the south lawn. Over-clad in western red cedar the original house is unrecognisable, giving the appearance of… Read more »

Link to image Link to Set The 361 bed luxury Wembley Hilton hotel is part of the wider Wembley Masterplan, which incorporates a mixture of commercial, leisure, retail and residential accommodation and community facilities around Wembley Stadium. The hotel is a social hub and a catalyst for regeneration of the area and includes a ballroom,… Read more »

Link to image Link to Set In 1997, the Catholic University of Leuven launched a competition to centralise its science and engineering libraries on the site of a disused 17th century Celestine convent in Arenberg. Rafael Moneo's winning entry did not envisage recreating the church that had stood next to the convent, but rather to… Read more »