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Especially among the younger offices it was evident that ambitions have clearly changed. Or perhaps it is more accurate to speak of a new mentality. These offices seem less concerned with the spectacular or new effects of the…

Sound has cropped up as a theme on many architecture agendas recently. Over the past months the Arcam architecture centre in Amsterdam has hosted an exhibition about sound, and the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture organised …

WAF is one of the world’s biggest gatherings of the global architectural community and will take centre stage in Barcelona for the third year running from 3rd to 5th November 2010. 
That Mels Crouwel – son of a hardcore functionalist and graphic designer from Amsterdam – and Jan Benthem – son of an aeronautical engineer from the Noordoostpolder – would start an office together seems so natural in hindsigh…

Two causes can be pointed to for the emergence of high-voltage parks. The most important reason is that cities are expanding beyond the high-voltage routes that were originally planned in countryside areas. Since the 1960s these routes …

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 surrounding…

On Wednesday the 14th of January the Detail Prize was awarded in seven different categories during the Detail Gala at the Munich House of Artists. The main prize was won by FAM archi…

While the lecture that Alejandro Zaera Polo held in April 2008 essentially signalled the start of his examination of the relation between building volume and politics, he is now working on a general theory about The Envelope.…
On Monday, November 3rd at 7 pm, Kengo Kuma, who established the Japanese architectural firm Kengo Kuma & Associates in 1990, is holding a lecture on their current works in The Great Hall, the Cooper Union in New York. By avoid…
The first public gathering of the International New Town Institute took place on Tuesday evening May 27 at the Kunstlinie art centre in Almere, organised in conjunction with Casla architecture centre. The aim of the Internati…