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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 selec…

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 fo­cu­s…

Schmidt ham­mer las­sen ar­chi­tects won the com­pe­ti­tion to re­de­sign the old com­mer­cial and trans­por­ta­tion port of the town of Hol­baek. In many for­mer in­dus­trial port areas around the world ar­chi­tec­tu­ral work is cur­rently in high d…

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, 200…

The story is fa­mi­liar to ever­yone by now. Last year the vo­lume of con­struc­tion work in Pe­king equal­led that in whole Eu­rope; a sky­scra­per is com­ple­ted every sin­gle day in Shang­hai; and Chong­qing num­bers 31.7 in­ha­bi­tants. Every wel…