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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 alvarez architect…

First of all, Colombia is a festive country. No matter where you order a drink or a juice, it’ll always be served with a straw – even in expensive restaurants and even as a handy stirring implement with tea or coffee. What’s more, a daily dose of Sal…

The Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) needed a new home as it was discovered their previous location was seismically inadequate. After a review of 141 international architects, Japan´s Toyo Ito was chosen to design the new museum, …

The Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) needed a new home as it was discovered their previous location was seismically inadequate. After a review of 141 international architects, Japan´s Toyo Ito was chosen to design the new museum, …

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-one and slipped ins…

Last week was marked by Zaha Hadid’s double win of the design competitions for the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan, and the Lilium Tower in Warsaw. Further, Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed designs for an extension to the Middle East Ce…

Kyu Sung Woo Architects has designed the new Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. The museum serves as the starting point of a campus-wide art installation program, including a collection of …

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has appointed Zaha Hadid Architects as Architect of its new »Innovation Tower«. Zaha Hadid presented her design at a press conference in Hong Kong on the 12th of December. PolyU's new »Innovation Tower« wi…

Cincinnati Art Museum Announces Short List of ArchitectsThe Board of the Cincinnati Art Museum announced the short list of architecture firms selected as candidates to work with the Museum on the development of a new design and on the reconfiguration…

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 documented and analy…

Is Concrete Architectural Associates an enfant terrible perhaps? During their presentation, founders Gilian Schrofer and Rob Wagemans certainly did their best to turn accepted architectural thinking on its head. Anarchy or new insight? Hip décors or …

Content is an exhibition about Rem Koolhaas and, more precisely, by Rem Koolhaas, as is often the case with exhibitions devoted to living architects. The visitor is offered a glimpse inside the architect's office. How do OMA projects evolve? What fas…

OMA received the commission after winning an international design competition in 1998. An important element of the design, and the reason it was probably chosen, is the 150-metre-long, stainless-steel, soundproof tube that encircles the elevated trai…

Thanks to scholarships from the Japanese government, both designers spent a year and a half as research students at Tokyo Institute of Technology. They leave behind a graceful yet emphatic mark of their sojourn with the garden, which opened at the en…