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For more than fifteen years Maike van Stiphout and her office DS landschapsarchitecten have been working on a wide range of landscape commissions. Her portfolio comprises all scales in both urban and rural areas. She has worked on such projects as th…

The winners, with full quotes from the jury-report: see also discussion about the results and the judgement (for now only in Dutch, translation will follow soon)First prize (ex aequo, each 15,000 euro)AMALGAM  - Laura Alvarez, laura alvarez architect…

Web 2.0 seems to have permeated – admittedly a little slowly – to neighbourhood management and urban development. Amsterdam housing associations recently launched the Buurtleven website (www.buurtleven.nl), a digital bulletin board where residents ca…

Family connections have brought me to China every year since the millennium and enabled me to observe developments from near at hand and far away and see the country change with great leaps. Eight years ago there wasn’t a single car in the village of…

Put simply, some critics propagate a preference for modern-looking mosques without embellishments; cupolas and minarets are deemed superfluous because they are out of sync with the climate or technology of their new surroundings. The visibility of su…

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 twentieth-century phi…

As everyone knows – and as is illustrated yet again by the exhibited material and interviews – the Jewish settlements in the Palestine areas form part of clever ‘civil occupation’. They become even more interesting when it turns out that their archit…

The Architectural League present the work and ideas of the world's most interesting and influential architects and designers to New York, national and international audiences, through lectures, exhibitions, publications, and the worldwide web. The Ar…

A visit to Le Medi made me ask myself the following question. What was the assignment that Woonbron Maasoevers housing association set for the architect to achieve this result? Or was it: Make a housing complex in a Mediterranean style that is more i…

The historic library by John Carrère and Thomas Hastings at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street opened in 1911 as a symbol of the City’s commitment to culture and knowledge. Today it is protected as a National Historic Landmark. It offers free access to its…

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 selected as from 224 sho…

On Tuesday, October 28th at 7pm, Craig Dykers, the co-founder of the architecture and design firm Snøhetta is holding a lecture on their current works in The Great Hall, the Cooper Union in New York. photo: Gerald Zugman ­In 2004 the Norwegian compan…

The new Arctic culture centre in Hammerfest, the world’s northernmost town, designed by a-lab architects was completed this month. The building, which is used as a venue for art, cultural events and conferences, is visible from both land and sea and …

During a two day conference titled »Architecture and Identity« questions concerning the globalisation of architecture and the coherent issue of architectural identity will be discussed in the Hesperia Tower in Barcelona. The RIBA Conference offers a …

During a three-day event taking place in the Centre Convencions Internacional Barcelona (CCIB) from 22 – 24 October, the Festival will showcase and compare not only a wide range of international architecture but also regional projects. Over 700 proje…