News University to turn 1980s LA shopping mall into cutting-edge labs The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has bought a disused shopping mall in West Los Angeles for $700m to turn it into a cutting edge research hub. With $500m…
News Nineties Berlin film studio has sequel as bright yellow office building Construction has been completed on the redevelopment of a Berlin film studio into offices, designed by Dutch architect MVRDV and Germany’s Hirschmüller Schindele Architekten. The Berliner Union Film Ateliers, a…
News Mystery investor eyes €6bn mixed-use district in Budapest Hungary’s government said it is planning to channel €6bn into a “Dubai-style” hub around a partly disused railway station in Budapest, local media reported yesterday. Janos Lazar, the country’s construction…
Projects Checking in with Limak on Barcelona’s new Camp Nou In its ongoing project to renovate FC Barcelona’s home stadium, Spotify Camp Nou, Turkish contractor Limak told GCR that it had now removed the old stadium’s third and top seating…
News What a $6bn makeover will do for New York’s Penn Station Architects HOK and Practice for Architecture Urbanism (PAU) have unveiled their design for a $6bn transformation of New York’s Penn Station, the United States’ busiest rail hub. The plan calls…