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Hand it to the French. Who else would pick an eco­no­mic col­lapse as a time to un­veil one of the most au­da­cious urban plans in re­cent me­mory?

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 al­va…

WHEN Jean-Yves Pro­del, who lives alone and uses a whee­l­chair, bought a 20-year-old house in this town just north of Paris in 2005, he hired an ar­chi­tect to re­make it fol­lo­wing the prin­ci­ples of uni­ver­sal de­sign.

Berlin’s urban bu­reau­crats en­vi­sion the city as a kind of «hand-me-down Paris,« as Ni­k­las Maak, an ar­chi­tec­ture cri­tic here, …

We are happy that the Eif­fel Tower in Paris will keep its ori­gi­nal shape and look. After most major media out­lets – and we are ad­mit­tedly in­clu­ded – fell for the hoax that the Eif­fel Tower will re­ceive a tem­porary ex­ten­sion to its top vi…

Jean Nou­vel was an­noun­ced to be the Pritz­ker Prize Lau­reate of 2008. The prize, which in­clu­des 100.000 US-Dollars and a bronze medal, is an­nu­ally awar­ded by the Hyatt Foun­da­tion. The 62 year-old French ar­chi­tect will of­fi­ci­ally re­ce…

Did you re­co­gnize it? The Eif­fel Tower in Paris will change its ex­te­rior ap­pearance tem­pora­rily by ad­ding a ho­ri­zon­tal ex­ten­sion to the top view­ing plat­form. In order to over­come the in­crea­sed amount of vi­si­tors, Parisian-based S…

The Cha­nel Con­tem­porary Art Con­tai­ner, un­mis­t­aka­bly de­si­gned by Zaha Hadid, opened at the end of Fe­bru­ary 2008 in Hong Kong, the first venue among 8 ci­ties. Fol­lo­wing the idea of Chanel-designer Karl La­ger­feld, the tem­porary mu­seu…

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 po­si­tive abou…

‘André was born in 1968, I in 1971 – that’s why.’ This is prize-winner Oli­ver Thill’s la­co­nic reply to the sug­ges­tion that sta­tu­tory re­a­sons alone meant that the Maas­kant Prize was awar­ded to him per­so­nally – win­ners must be aged 35 yea…

ArchiAfrika is a foun­da­tion set up by a group of Dutch ar­chi­tects who worked in Af­rica and want to in­crease know­ledge about Af­ri­can ar­chi­tec­ture in Af­rica and the rest of the world. Du­ring the three-week work­shop the par­ti­ci­pants do…

More than five years ago - on Ja­nu­ary 26, 2000 to be exact - Simon Vin­kenoog opened the con­gress 'New Ba­by­lon - The value of drea­m­ing the city of tomorrow' held at the Fa­culty of Ar­chi­tec­ture in Delft Uni­ver­sity of Tech­no­logy. For two…

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, G…

To ex­plore and com­ment on Dutch land­scape in trans­for­ma­tion, Prin­cen sets up his large-format ca­mera be­fore any in­ten­ded user has even en­t­e­red the frame, or has even been selec­ted. And then there re­ally is so­me­thing worth see­ing: u…