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February 6, 2012
  • ECOWEEK 2012 programme starts in Israel
    Detail Online – news
    The in­ter­na­tio­nal con­fe­ren­ces and work­shops for young ar­chi­tects, de­si­gners, land­scape ar­chi­tects and gra­duate stu­dents will be con­ti­nued with four events in Is­rael, Thes­sa­lo­niki, Kra­kow and Rome this year.
February 25, 2009
January 21, 2009
  • A Boom in Office Towers in Calgary
    The New York Times – news
    When the Bow, an of­fice tower under con­struc­tion in down­town Cal­gary, is com­ple­ted in 2011, the 58-story buil­ding will be the tal­lest struc­ture in Ca­nada west of To­ronto.
June 28, 2005
  • Thin Line between being Radical and Naive
    Take one of the assigned plots in Antwerp, Belgium and create a design for the headquarters of the Flemish nationalist political party Vlaams Belang. Or draw a concept for it's rather extreme Islamic opponent AEL (Arabic European League). How should architects operate in such political, ethnic or religious matters? Is there a role for them at all? Is architecture 'neutral' and only about aesthetics or is it acceptable that spaces and buildings propagate implicit or explicit messages? If so, to what extend? Maybe architects even can assist in bridging the gap between different ethnic and socio-political groups?
    ArchiNed.nl – news

    These and other ques­tions were at stake at the in­ter­na­tional de­sign sem­i­nar IN­DE­SEM, or­gan­ised by the 'bouwkunde' stu­dent as­so­ci­a­tion Sty­los an­nu­ally, some­times every two years. Eighty stu­dents took part, half of them Dutch an…

July 1, 2003
  • Dutch Canadian team wins competition for 100.000 m2 complex
    A Dutch Canadian team has won the competition for a 100.000 m2 administrative and cultural complex in Montreal, Canada. The team consists of Pero Puljiz and Branimir Medic from the Dutch architectural office de Architekten Cie and two Quebec architectural firms, Ædifica and Tétreault Parent Languedoc et associés.
    ArchiNed.nl – news

    In Feb­ru­ary 2002, Bernard Landry, Pre­mier of Que­bec, an­nounced the con­struc­tion of an ad­min­is­tra­tive and cul­tural com­plex in Mon­treal. The new com­plex will pro­vide the Or­chestre sym­phonique de Mon­tréal with a per­ma­nent home an…

March 19, 2001
  • Are they or aren"t they?
    Last February, there was a public discussion at the NAI (Netherlands Architecture Institute) on the subject of the individual commissioning of dwellings, with as title 'Shaping the Netherlands: Architectural Policy 2001-2004'. After a whole evening spent discussing the new policy proposal to allow 30% of new housing production to be undertaken on the initiative of private individuals, Member of Parliament Adri Duivesteijn concluded: 'The builders are against it, the developers are against it, and the local authorities are against it. Three good reasons to continue.'including a response by Mark Zaitsoff BEd. University of Manitoba
    ArchiNed.nl – news

    In­di­vid­ual com­mis­sion­ing is one of the major projects set out in the ar­chi­tec­ture pol­icy doc­u­ment for 2001-2004 Shap­ing the Nether­lands. These projects fall under the di­rect re­spon­si­bil­ity of the gov­ern­ment. In­di­vid­ual hous…

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