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Until November 21, the Museum of FInnish Architecture in Helsinki is showing the exhibition „Global Award for Sustainable Architecture“. It features projects from the last 3 editions of the award.

The winners, with full quotes from the jury-report: see also discussion about the results a…

Entitled ‘Rethinking Theory, Space and Production: Henri Lefebvre Today’, the conference reflected the huge revival of interest in the work of Lefebvre today, which most architects are perhaps unaware of. However, if there’s one …

The interventions are illustrated in the book in the style of a catalogue according to a ‘cut-n-paste’ method using photos and diagrams: the images show possible transformations inside the home (living room, kitchen, bathroom)…


Construction will begin early next year on the 2.5 million square meter plan in the west of Abu Dhabi, and is scheduled for early 2015. The projected budget, an impressive 4.5 billion US Dollar, will be provided for by private investo…

Brazil itself is present everywhere at the Biennale with a posse of architects around the Pritzker Prize winners Niemeyer and da Rocha. Europe is poorly represented. Other parts of the world are largely absent, apart from South Africa, …

Peter Nietzke and Elisabeth Blum, both architects and authors of the publication FavelaMetropolis, delivered an optimistic story about Brazilian slums like Copacabana and Favela-Bairro. It wasn’t that they were positi…