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At a press conference in Copenhagen last week, it was announced that Steven Holl Architects is the winner of the international design competition, «The LM Project.« The winning proposal connects office towers and civic spaces with a public walkway 65…

Istanbul is, indeed, the place for identifying with the beauties and stupidities of different worlds simultaneously. A timeless cliché, but true: Istanbul is a cradle of dualities. Here, not only East and West but also informal and formal, tolerance …

Precisely at a time when, according to the speakers, architecture is both successful and powerless, it offers no answers to important social questions. To turn the tide, architects were encouraged to liberate themselves from the straitjacket of tradi…

Marilyn Douala Bell is the great-granddaughter of King Rudolf Douala Manga Bell, who fought against the Germans and erected the famous Pagoda Palace in Douala. She set up doual’art with Didier Schaub in 1991. Doual’art is based on the assumption that…

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 institutional tasks of inform…

Glasgow's newest bridge, Finnieston Bridge at Pacific Quay, has been lit up by Carmichael Lighting Ltd. The Lightdesigner used colour changing LEDs to create a dramatic effect on the new 169-metre long road bridge across the River Clyde. The Finniest…

In a packed Doelen theatre, and on a day when water levels reached their highest since 1953, NAi director Ole Bouman asked the cream of Dutch architecture whether the future of architecture is something beyond our control or something we can influenc…

The Berlage Institute describes this lecture series, which examines the effects of global forces and local realities on the contemporary city, as ‘part of crucial research’. In reality, however, every lecture turns out to be a surprise.…

Among the activities taking place are the workshops organised by The Lighthouse, Scotland's centre for architecture, design and the city and Archiprix International. All the participant of the Archiprix Internation 2005 edition were invited to partic…

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 and half of them from abro…

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, Gilles Saucier, Bridg…

The complex designed by Duiker in the woods near Hilversum is being restored in phases. Major repairs started in 1995 with the restoration of the service block by students from the Delft University of Technology, and work on the main block was comple…

A new breed of allotment garden is taking shape at the foot of Prins Claus Bridge in Utrecht. Groenewoud Gardens provides green surroundings for office villas interspersed among the allotments. Particular attention was paid to the architecture of the…

A minor theme that persistently runs through modern architecture is the quest for (almost) nothing, for the purest possible architecture whose form is determined by the very absence of all that is superfluous. The most striking illustration is the de…

'A friend of my mother used to live in this house. Hanging from the windowsills of her lovely house were the most beautiful flowerpots. As children we often secretly tried to pick the flowers, but she always saw us and said, »Carry these bags upstair…