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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 bul­le­t…

An opening ce­re­mony of the Peres Peace House in Jaffa, by Ita­lian ar­chi­tect Mas­si­mi­liano Fuk­sas, was held last week. The Centre for Peace is a non-profit, non-governmental or­ga­ni­sa­tion based in Is­rael that pro­mo­tes peace across the Mi…

With his Mu­seum of Na­tu­ral His­tory in San Fransisco’s Gol­den Gate Park Renzo Piano has suc­cess­fully united the twelve dif­fe­rent buil­dings of the Ca­li­for­nia Aca­demy of Sci­en­ces, con­struc­ted bet­ween 1916 and 1991, under one sin­gle, …

Gas pipe You can’t be clear en­ough when ma­king a po­li­ti­cal state­ment at a cir­cus like the bi­en­nale, as the tiny coun­try of Es­to­nia un­der­stands all too well. In re­s­ponse to con­tro­ver­sial plans by Gaz­prom for a pipe­line bet­ween Ru…

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Arata Isoz­aki won the in­ter­na­tio­nal com­pe­ti­tion for de­si­gning the new cen­tral sta­tion in Bo­lo­gna. The com­pe­ti­tion was an­noun­ced by the city of Bo­lo­gna and the Ita­lian rail­way as­so­cia­tion. First Nor­man Fos­ter de­si­gned the…

Small rooms with a lot of lu­xury: that’s the for­mula be­hind Ci­ti­zen M. »If you’re in town for a short stay, then you cer­tainly don’t want a big lu­xury room with all the extras«, ar­gues Je­roen Ves­ter of Ams­ter­dam de­sign firm Con­crete, ‘b…

A new per­ma­nent sculp­ture by Mac­Cor­mic Ja­mie­son Pri­chard Ar­chi­tects, ar­tist Jaume Plensa, and struc­tu­ral en­gi­neers whit­by­bird adorns the BBC Broad­cas­ting House in Lon­don. It is in re­mem­brance of jour­na­lists kil­led in the cros…

According to the web­site the ex­hi­bi­tion was to open at 1 o’clock. I ar­ri­ved 20 mi­nu­tes early and wan­de­red around the buil­ding. Sud­denly I no­ti­ced an open door that led to the inner gar­den of the art cam­pus. I loo­ked around, saw no-on…

The jury of the 2008 UIA Gold medal de­ci­ded in April 2008 to award the medal to the Me­xi­can ar­chi­tect Teo­doro Gon­za­lez de Leon. He will re­ceive the medal at a ce­re­mony, on 2 July 2008, du­ring the twenty third UIA Con­gress in Turin. Thro…

RMJM Hil­lier has been selec­ted as the de­sign ar­chi­tect and la­bo­ra­tory plan­ner for the new re­se­arch and de­ve­lop­ment centre for the bio­tech­no­logy com­pany Gen­zyme Corp.. The centre will be based in Beijing's Zhong­guan­cun Life Sci­en…

The Ar­chi­tec­tu­ral As­so­cia­tion De­sign Re­se­arch Lab ce­le­bra­tes its 10th an­ni­vers­ary with a tem­porary pa­vi­lion by Alan Demp­sey and Alvin Huang, si­tua­ted on Bed­ford Square in Lon­don. The two ar­chi­tects crea­ted a shell struc­tur…

De Rui­ter star­ted his of­fice for ar­chi­tec­ture, pro­duct de­ve­lop­ment and project de­ve­lop­ment back then on the basis of his doc­to­ral re­se­arch. Sustaina­bi­lity has been a prio­rity right from the start. The ul­ti­mate aim of De Rui­ter …

In this ar­ti­cle, I try to take se­riously Jencks’s re­mark that cul­ture should find an ico­no­gra­phic lan­guage to con­nect us to the uni­verse. Jencks’s lec­tu­res, an­s­wers and gar­dens seem to re­sem­ble the cosmos when it comes to be­gin­nin…

While 2007 was so­me­thing of a tran­si­tio­nal year that loo­ked to the past with big, lar­gely tra­di­tio­nal ex­hi­bi­ti­ons on Le Cor­bu­sier and Cuy­pers, the NAi is de­fi­ni­tely loo­king to the fu­ture in 2008. In ad­di­tion to the NAi’s in­st…