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DURING one three-week pe­riod re­cently Iwan Baan tou­ched down in Ams­ter­dam, Me­xico City, Miami, New York, Milan, Rome, Tokyo, Me­del­lín and Basel, where he pho­to­gra­phed buil­dings de­si­gned by some of the world’s top architects

With its swo­o­ping cur­ves, im­pos­si­ble angles and haun­ting views, Zaha Hadid's new mu­seum of 21st-century art is her best work yet. Jo­na­than Glan­cey gets a gui­ded tour in Rome.

Architecture must do more than pro­vide shel­ter for us. Ar­chi­tec­ture must offer us a se­cure home in the con­fu­sing mo­dern rea­lity. With this bi­en­nale Aaron Betsky wants to sti­mu­late ex­pe­ri­ments and show how we can es­ta­blish (new) re­…

Betsky’s pre­sen­ta­tion was li­vely and per­sua­sive. His story star­ted with a phone call from Mis­ter Bar­atta. 'I’ve a pro­blem. Can you help?,' Bar­atta asked. 'Maybe, but who are you?,' an­s­we­red Betsky. Bar­atta tur­ned out to be di­rec­tor …

Gareth Hos­kins Ar­chi­tects have won the com­pe­ti­tion to de­sign the so-called Gathe­ring Space, the Scot­tish pre­sence at the 2008 Ve­nice Ar­chi­tec­ture Bi­en­nale. Scotland’s first Ve­nice Bi­en­nale pa­vi­lion ever will be si­tua­ted in a ma…

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…

Fanfare, pomp and cir­cum­stance sur­roun­ded the opening of the pu­blic dis­play of ‘Brussels Ca­pi­tal of Europe’ – a stu­dio project now well over two years old – at the Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR) in Brus­sels on Marc…

Situationist Guy De­bord de­vi­sed the no­tion of psy­cho­geo­gra­phy in the 1950s. It deals with the study of the exact laws and spe­ci­fic ef­fects of our geo­gra­phic en­vi­ron­ment. Psy­cho­geo­gra­phy de­scri­bes the sud­den change in at­mo­s­ph…

Westland is an area of 14,000 hec­ta­res south of The Hague known mainly for its area of glass­house hor­ti­cul­ture, which ac­counts for 5,000 hec­ta­res. Pres­sure on the area is im­mense. Vil­la­ges and towns in and around West­land are all see­ki…

The Prix de Rome or­ga­nisers set a trendy, con­tem­porary as­si­gn­ment for the final round: to con­vert the va­cant CSM fac­tory in Half­weg into a mul­ti­func­tio­nal events com­plex. The de­si­gners not only had to come up with an ar­chi­tec­tu­r…

Felix Claus (Claus en Kaan Ar­chi­tec­ten, Ams­ter­dam) shared his doubts can­didly. When is a buil­ding good? Are you even doing it all right? Does it fit into the logic of the project? To him, doubt means ha­ving to choose, for there are temp­t­ing…

Fuksas has built the forth­co­m­ing Bi­en­nale around the theme 'Cities': the city as con­text cha­rac­te­ri­sed by per­ma­nent cri­sis. Ac­cor­ding to Fuk­sas, ar­chi­tects can­not be per­mit­ted to adopt a cy­ni­cal at­ti­tude towards the city - th…

Peter Greenaway (1942) is best known for such films as The Belly of an Ar­chi­tect, Drow­ning by Num­bers, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, and Pil­low Book. In ad­di­tion, he has worked on ope­ras, he wrote the li­bretto for Wri­ting to …

Born in Bre­ta­gne and still li­ving by the sea with a view of an end­less ho­ri­zon, Odile Decq sta­tes that: ‘Architecture is about tra­vel­ling. The ho­ri­zon is a line you want to reach. You never suc­ceed, but you’re al­ways on the…

The Me­tro­po­li­tan World Atlas presents a huge amount of data in an easy-to-understand way thanks to the book's good gra­phic de­sign. The atlas can be di­vi­ded roughly into three sec­tions. First there's an over­view of major glo­bal trade net­wo…