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October 31, 2008
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October 27, 2008
  • Emirates Glass LEAF Awards 2008
    Detail Online – news
    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…
June 22, 2008
  • Ito’s Concept Design for his Upcoming American Debut
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    The Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) needed a new home as it was discovered their previous location was seismically inadequate. After a review of 141 international architects, Japan´s Toyo Ito was chosen to design the new museum, …
  • Ito’s Concept Design for his Upcoming American Debut
    Detail Online – news
    The Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) needed a new home as it was discovered their previous location was seismically inadequate. After a review of 141 international architects, Japan´s Toyo Ito was chosen to design the new museum, …
June 11, 2008
  • AR Awards 2008: call for entries and touring exhibition
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    As the world’s leading award for emerging architecture, the Architectural Review Awards 2008 is now in its 10th cycle. The call for entries runs till September 8, 2008 and addresses to young architects and designers under the age of 45. A touring exh…
May 22, 2008
  • Call for liberation lacks motivation
    On April 4, to mark the publication of Volume #14 – theme: 'Unsolicited Architecture' – the NAi organised a discussion about 'unsolicited architecture'. During the evening an emphatic moral appeal was made to architects.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    Precisely at a time when, according to the speakers, architecture is both successful and powerless, it offers no answers to important social questions. To turn the tide, architects were encouraged to liberate themselves from the straitjacket of tradi…
November 6, 2007
  • Almere letters no.1 - The Trojan Horse
    You, the ‘ordinary’ individual! Now log onto the municipality’s digital plot-shop, pick yourself a piece of land from and realize the house of your dreams. Welcome to 21st century city generation in Almere, the ‘adolescent’ new town of the Netherlands. Urban developers, large-scale construction firms and housing corporations are pushed off the stage and finally now you are given the chance to become the producer of your city. Your local government wants you to be proactive, creative and engaged!
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    This is not just a bunch of housing projects attached to a new town but the largest housing production endeavor of the coming decades in the Netherlands. 60.000 new homes are envisioned to be built by 2030, one-third (20.000) of which is to be custom…
May 21, 2007
  • Who is Vedran Mimica?
    From May 24 to June 10, Rotterdam will be the centre of the international architecture world, says Vedran Mimica. Who is Vedran Mimica? And what is his relation to the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam? ArchiNed spoke to him.
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    Born? In 1954 in Zagreb, then part of Yugoslavia. Study? I studied architecture at the University of Zagreb. Like so many young architects I entered competitions after graduation, among them a competition to design a monument for a young guerrilla fi…
June 27, 2005
  • Competition results Archiprix international 2005
    Finally, at the end of a Friday afternoon full of lectures and discussion in de townhouse of Glasgow the winners of the Hunter Douglas Awards (Archiprix International 2005) were announced.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    The jury, Ian Gilzean, Hitoshi Abe (Atelier Hitoshi Abe, Tokai), Bridget Baines (GROSS. MAX. Edinburgh), Zvi Efrat (Efrat-Kowalsky, Tel Aviv) and Gilles Saucier (Saucier + Perrotte, Montreal) selected six project which received a prize.  A Prospectiv…
March 23, 2005
  • Nominations Archiprix International 2005
    The nominations were selected out of a total of 186 submitted projects. These projects were selected by 186 schools for architecture, urban design and/or landscape architecture from 67 countries as their best graduation project of the last two years.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    The response grows every edition. With participants from 67 different countries from all continents the event displays a unique insight of trends in design and ideas about education.The jury (Ian Gilzean, Hitoshi Abe, Zvi Efrat, Gilles Saucier, Bridg…
December 1, 2004
  • MVRDV in Madrid
    First a museum in Japan, now apartments in Spain. A remarkable housing project by MVRDV in Madrid nears completion. A preview with photos by Rob 't Hart.
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    Spain is currently in the midst of a building boom. An ideas competition was staged early this year on the assumption that some 400,000 dwellings will be needed in the Barcelona region over the next twenty years. Madrid, meanwhile, is spreading out f…
March 1, 2004
  • Glossy with Content
    Some of Holland's most talked-about TV personalities have their own popular magazine. And now Rem Koolhaas has one as well. His handy-sized hip glossy isn't called 'Rem' or ® but 'Content'. But does it contain any 'content' or are we dealing with an obligatory personality cult?
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    The first flick through is a let-down. Reprints of previously published texts such as Junkspace and Miestakes interspersed with a countless cut-and-paste references to well-worn cultural icons: the Bomb, Lady Di, Mao, the US President, Saddam, Schwar…
June 1, 2001
  • A Genuine Greg Lynn in Amsterdam South-East?
    Friday June 15 saw the opening of an exhibition of submissions to the limited competition for the honeycomb apartment building Kleiburg. Three artists and three architects were set the task of giving Kleiburg a facelift. Remarkably, the three artists turned out to have submitted typically architectural projects, and the architects produced art. American architect Greg Lynn (1964) made the best plan and will receive a further commission to translate his ideas into a feasible plan.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    Kleiburg is a typical Bijlmer block from the early 1970s with 500 rental dwellings on ten floors. The block is located in what is known as the Bijlmer Museum, where the blocks and surrounding space will preserve their original form and where the spir…
December 1, 2000
  • Rem's Junk in Mies' Space
    It can’t have escaped anyone: the first major exhibition devoted to Rem Koolhaas and OMA/AMO is now on show in the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Big, plenty and perplexing. Rem Koolhaas lets loose.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    Content is an exhibition about Rem Koolhaas and, more precisely, by Rem Koolhaas, as is often the case with exhibitions devoted to living architects. The visitor is offered a glimpse inside the architect's office. How do OMA projects evolve? What fas…
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