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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…

A visit to Le Medi made me ask myself the following question. What was the assignment that Woonbron Maasoevers housing association set for the architect to achieve this result? Or was it: Make a housing complex in a Mediterranean style that is more i…

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the five winners of this year’s international awards and shortlisted three of them for the Lubetkin Prize. The Lubetkin Prize is awarded for the most outstanding building outside the EU b…

We are happy that the Eiffel Tower in Paris will keep its original shape and look. After most major media outlets – and we are admittedly included – fell for the hoax that the Eiffel Tower will receive a temporary extension to its top visitor’s platf…

Ofis Architekti is an architectural office from Ljubljana, who finished a series of interesting projects in their country during the last years. Tetris Apartments was a social apartment-project that draws its name from the popular game. Others includ…

Did you recognize it? The Eiffel Tower in Paris will change its exterior appearance temporarily by adding a horizontal extension to the top viewing platform. In order to overcome the increased amount of visitors, Parisian-based Serero Architects deve…

‘Do you want to be relevant?’, was Ole Bouman’s rhetorical opening. ‘Yes’, nodded his audience. Of course, agreed Bouman, and he then showed them five ways to be relevant.  - You keep doing your work like you’ve always done- You try to be contemporar…

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…

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…

Hertzberger is renowned for the way he shaped, and continues to shape, a new and less traditional system of education that has evolved since the 1970s thanks to the influence of Maria Montessori and others. His schools do not emphasise learning from …

A diamond-shaped white concrete Casa da Música [CdM] slowly emerged in the most central roundabout of the local modern urbanity. From the very beginning, the process was politically and urban disturbed. This fact placed its construction, archite…

Winka Dubbeldam opened her office Archi-Tectonics in 1994. She rose to prominence with contributions to exhibitions such as 'The Unprivate House' (1994) at the MOMA and Archi-Lab (2000) in Orléans. She also compiled a body of quality architectur…

The first architect mentioned by name in the history books - as we learn in architecture classes - is Daedalus. He it was who designed the labyrinth for King Minos in Crete (1700-1400 BC). Yet there is another candidate: Bezalel Ben Uri. He designed …

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 …

Background Early 1990s. Four architects - Rem Koolhaas, Wim Quist, Carel Weeber and Robert Venturi - are invited to make proposals to improve the Stedelijk Museum. Robert Venturi's proposal wins. 1993. The extension project is deemed too ambitious. T…