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An opening ceremony of the Peres Peace House in Jaffa, by Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas, was held last week. The Centre for Peace is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation based in Israel that promotes peace across the Middle East by arr…

The Architectural Association Design Research Lab celebrates its 10th anniversary with a temporary pavilion by Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang, situated on Bedford Square in London. The two architects created a shell structure made of Fibre-C, that rema…

The Bronx County Hall of Justice in New York has finally been completed and opened early this year. The design by Rafael Viñoly Architects, that took 15 years to be fulfilled, is trying to signify the openness of the judicial system by implementing t…

Steven Holl is currently establishing a major presence in China, considering four grand projects that are planned to open between 2008-2010. “Linked Hybrid” is a mixed used building in Beijing, as well as “Chengdu Project” and “Vanke Center” in Shenz…

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

The Porter Gallery in the V&A Museum London will house the contemporary program of the V&A over the next ten years. The gallery, designed by Block Architecture, is situated next to the V…

Brazil itself is present everywhere at the Biennale with a posse of architects around the Pritzker Prize winners Niemeyer and da Rocha. Europe is poorly represented. Other parts of the world are largely absent, apart from South Africa, which presents…

After studying at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague from 1956 to 1961, Peter Struycken (1939) painted in a figurative style. He was fascinated by the differences and similarities in visual reality. A row of trees interested him more than a single…

There is something about this artist from Berlin. His best-known work, the Weather Project at the Tate Modern – a shining sun that was occasionally obscured by mist – was repeatedly shown by various speakers during the Projective Landsc…

When the smelly and unhealthy mining industry disappeared from the Ruhrgebiet in the 1980s, the region was left to deal with heavily polluted land and high unemployment. The Internationale Bauaustelling (IBA) Emscher Park, which started in 1989, put …

The temporary pavilion on the grass in front of the Serpentine Gallery is an architecture exhibition of the 1:1 variety. It’s no representation in the form of drawings or models but a real building in which the architect’s intentions ca…

‘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. Small patch…

Saturday March 25 Turbulent times in Buenos Aires. Just a week ago the president decided that March 24 is a national day of remembrance to commemorate the military coup in 1976. By law, all civil servants enjoy a free day; hospital operations and mar…