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The new Curve Theatre in the St. George’s Conservation Area in Leicester, is Rafael Viñoly Architects’ first completed project in the United Kingdom. By exposing the production, construction, and technical components of the theatre to the public, the…

Gas pipe You can’t be clear enough when making a political statement at a circus like the biennale, as the tiny country of Estonia understands all too well. In response to controversial plans by Gazprom for a pipeline between Russia and Germany, cura…

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…

De Ruiter started his office for architecture, product development and project development back then on the basis of his doctoral research. Sustainability has been a priority right from the start. The ultimate aim of De Ruiter was to make a building …

New York’s High Line, the elevated abandoned rail line along the West Side of Manhattan currently being transformed into a park, will be framed at 23rd street by a fourteen story condominium tower appropriately named HL23 and designed by Neil Denari …

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…

The Danish architects schmidt hammer lassen have won the architectural competition for the “Meetingpoint Malmö”, a new building that will be situated in the harbour district of the city of Malmö in the south of Sweden. The 21.500 square metre buildin…

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 text forms the core of t…

The design and exhibition are the fruits of a study project, commissioned by the RPD, into the requirements that contemporary multi-company buildings have to meet. The underlying idea is that today's society requires buildings that can be rapidly tra…

Arti et Amicitiae is the Amsterdam venue for a major exhibition of art placed in public space over the past five years. Visitors to the exhibition can use a temporary entrance, a work by artist Michiel Voet. It is a wooden stairway in front of the fa…

In February 2002, Bernard Landry, Premier of Quebec, announced the construction of an administrative and cultural complex in Montreal. The new complex will provide the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal with a permanent home and. It will include …

The CiBoGa site totals 14 hectares in size. On completion in 2008, it will contain around 900 housing units, 1200 parking spaces, 10,000 m2 retail space, and 40,000 m2 office space. A number of architects will design different zones of the site. The …

The feelings aroused by the project of the House of Music can perhaps be put together under one category: they are excessive. The City Hall shows excessive pride, the »intellectual elite« shows excessive excitement, the »progressive« people show exce…

Fuksas has built the forthcoming Biennale around the theme 'Cities': the city as context characterised by permanent crisis. According to Fuksas, architects cannot be permitted to adopt a cynical attitude towards the city - the enormous impact of the …

The 25kV building is a former electricity control station, now renovated to house workspaces for (new) media companies and visual artists working with new media. The original building was little more than a blank concrete volume with heavy concrete f…