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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 al­va…

Divided into three chap­ters – pro­duct, pro­cess and ar­chi­tec­ture – the book in­clu­des cont­ri­bu­ti­ons from eight wri­ters in cir­cles around Ce­pe­zed that ex­plore the spe­cial po­si­tion of the of­fice in the field. Each ar­ti­cle is fol­lo…

The con­struc­tion of the Bo­de­gas Pro­tos Wi­nery in Pe­ña­fiel has been fi­nis­hed. The buil­ding of Wi­nery de­si­gned by Ro­gers Stirk Har­bour …

‘Located right in the in­ter­na­tio­nal busi­ness centre of Daqing,’ I re­mem­ber as my taxi races away from the only city district that could even re­mo­tely be con­side­red a city centre and speeds towards the Daqing Pe­tro­leum Hotel…

The title of this mas­sive re­fe­rence work (over 500 pages) em­pha­si­ses the full-page pho­tos of the do­cu­men­ted buil­ding ma­te­ri­als and the two pho­tos of buil­dings in which the ma­te­rial in ques­tion is ap­p­lied. But the ac­com­pany­ing …

Zijlstra, ar­chi­tect and foun­der of Ma­te­ria, an in­de­pen­dent ad­vi­sory of­fice for the selec­tion and de­ve­lop­ment of ar­chi­tec­tu­ral pro­ducts and ma­te­ri­als, dis­cus­sed the use of ma­te­ri­als by Mike Guyer and An­nette Gigon from Swi…

Although Wi­j­de­veld (1885-1987) was per­sua­ded to take on earthly com­mis­si­ons (for hou­sing, in­te­ri­ors and gra­phic work) du­ring his long life, the ex­hi­bi­tion shows only his uto­pian work, and of that, just the high­lights of this so­mew…