public administration

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 bo…

The city of Sa­ra­jevo is star­ting to ful­fill se­veral cul­tu­ral projects that, to­ge­ther with their pro­mi­nent ar­chi­tec­tu­ral de­signs mark the re­con­struc­tion of the city after the war. Such is the new buil­ding for the Aca­demy of Per­fo…

London-based Bu­schow Hen­ley Ar­chi­tects have de­si­gned the new buil­ding for The Wald­ron Health Centre in Le­wis­ham. The first phase of the £13.5 Mil­lion Wald­ron Health Centre re­de­ve­lop­ment was com­ple­ted in Au­gust 2007, the whole buil­…

After the com­ple­tion of Mu­se­ump­lein in Oud-Zuid, Wes­ter­park is the se­cond Ams­ter­dam district since the de­cen­tra­li­sa­tion of the city ad­mi­nis­tra­tion to bring a large and com­plex project for pu­blic green space to a suc­cess­ful con­…

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 …

The rich­ness and va­riety of the ex­hi­bi­ted in­itia­ti­ves and the pre­sen­ted pro­duc­tivity of the Municipality’s pu­blic in­sti­tu­ti­ons, poses the ques­tion on what is hol­ding all these in­itia­ti­ves to­ge­ther. How can a city like B…

CCTV's new 550,000 m2 head­quar­ters will be com­ple­ted for the Bei­jing Olym­pics in 2008. The total con­struc­tion cost is esti­ma­ted at 600 mil­lion euro. The CCTV head­quar­ters will be one of the first Eu­ro­pean sky­scra­pers to be built in C…