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The historic library by John Carrère and Thomas Hastings at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street opened in 1911 as a symbol of the City’s commitment to culture and knowledge. Today it is protected as a National Historic Landmark. It offers free access to its…

The new faculty building for the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, designed by the Irish practice Grafton Architects, has won the first World Building of the Year Award at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona. It was selected as from 224 sho…

The Danish architecture firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen won the Grand Prix Award for its Performers House project, a modern version of a Danish folk high school, at this year’s Leaf Awards in London last week. The prize specifically focuses on projects bu…

In connection with Foster + Partners’ project to remodel and extend the »Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus«, the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich is hosting the exhibition »Foster + Partners: Working with history« 21. October 2008 - 22. February 2009. In…

At the end of September the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies announced the winners of this year’s International Architecture Awards…

Future Non-Future exhibits at AA Gallery dozens of contemporary urban, architectural and landscape projects for London. They all share one key feature: they are, or currently remain, unbuilt. Featuring proposals by some of the world’s leading archite…

Foster + Partners has unveiled designs for a new waterfront development in Rimini. The proposal is intended to strengthen the relationship between the town centre and the seafront of this old Adriatic Resort and also create a year-round attraction fo…

The RIBA National and International Awards were announced on June 27th. The final shortlist for the £20,000 Stirling Prize which includes the RIBA National Awardees will be announced on July 17th, and the winner on October 11, 2008. East Beach Cafe (…

Foster + Partners in collaboration with the general London public will work together to construct and dismantle the temporary structure at the opening of the LFA on June 21. The architects worked with sound artist Bill Fontana, and will reveal the de…

The UK’s leading architectural firm Foster + Partners is planning to build the world’s largest single building in Moscow. The ambitious project called Crystal Island is meant to become a self-contained city within a city, including a rich mix of buil…

Foster + Partners has launched a masterplan for a carbon-neutral resort on the Black Sea coast in its first project in Bulgaria. A series of car free hill towns in an unspoilt setting of oak forests, meadows and river gorges, the development will cre…

Cincinnati Art Museum Announces Short List of ArchitectsThe Board of the Cincinnati Art Museum announced the short list of architecture firms selected as candidates to work with the Museum on the development of a new design and on the reconfiguration…

The LACMA is a complex of different buildings. In the last 36 years the museum gradually expanded with new buildings or additions to existing buildings. The architects' mandate was to transform the many buildings into a cohesive design. Besides Rem K…