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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…

Each year since 1927, the New Zealand Institute of Architects offers an Awards programme to showcase and celebrate top quality architecture in New Zealand. Scooping up the 2008 NZIA Supreme awards on saturday night 24 may 2008 were three projects fro…

Tilburg is another town with ambitious plans to present itself as a place of culture, and so it asked Körmeling to make a work of art. As an ode to the terrace house with through living room, the Eindhoven architect came up with a version that rides …

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…

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…

To house the many activities that will take place in 2004, the idea was launched to transform former factories and schools into so called Maisons Folie. In 2001 the municipal of Lille organised a design competition for the transformation of a former …

After the completion of Museumplein in Oud-Zuid, Westerpark is the second Amsterdam district since the decentralisation of the city administration to bring a large and complex project for public green space to a successful conclusion. And with the pr…

A new breed of allotment garden is taking shape at the foot of Prins Claus Bridge in Utrecht. Groenewoud Gardens provides green surroundings for office villas interspersed among the allotments. Particular attention was paid to the architecture of the…

All five City-Scrapers had half an hour to present their vision for the plan area, which was followed by a tough third degree interrogation by the Inspector Columbo of building, Gerrit Middelkoop. The aim: to realise something akin to a world exposit…

Dominique Lyon's work includes projects in La Ville Neuve in Paris. He responds to the bizarre convergence of the most disparate buildings in suburbs and establishes connections between them. Many of his libraries do not read as buildings but as an e…

A better environment begins with the architect - that's if we are to believe the stream of new architecture books on the subject of sustainable building. But there is an important first step of course: sustainable urban development. And that's not ju…

Archigram started out as the name of a stencilled magazine whose first issue - which sold 300 issues - appeared in 1961. The name Archigram, analogous to words like telegram and aerogram, was an implicit reference to the transitory nature of the mag.…

The programme has been put together after taking stock of the wishes, ambitions and needs of Rotterdammers and institutions and organisations in Rotterdam. This resulted in ten subjects that form the basis for the Rotterdam 2001 programme, the many f…