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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 Danish architecture firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen won the Grand Prix Award for its Performers House project, a modern version of a Danish folk high school, at this year’s Leaf Awards in London last week. The prize specifically focuses on projects bu…

A new permanent sculpture by MacCormic Jamieson Prichard Architects, artist Jaume Plensa, and structural engineers whitbybird adorns the BBC Broadcasting House in London. It is in remembrance of journalists killed in the cross-fire and was lit for th…

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu's parliament building will be designed by von Gerkan, Marg und Partner. As winners of the first prize in the competition from 2007, the planning contract has already been awarded. The 160 000 square-meter-building situa…

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 only museum in the U.S. that documents Jewish-American experience is adding to the existing building a 9.200 square metres complex that was designed by Polshek Partnership of New York. As the Architectural Record reported lately, the National Mus…

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 …

BAVO, the Jan van Eyck Academy, and the Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht organised a series of three lectures, as part of Super! 1st Triennale for Fine Arts, Fashion and Design, about the city as a platform for cultural engagement. BAVO, a collective …

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…

A minor theme that persistently runs through modern architecture is the quest for (almost) nothing, for the purest possible architecture whose form is determined by the very absence of all that is superfluous. The most striking illustration is the de…

The houses huddle stiffly, like a colony of migratory birds, on the muddy flats under a stark autumn sky. A wonderful sight, the perfect setting for a film by Alex van Warmerdam (director of de Noorderlingen, een halve eeuw later). An architectural h…

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…

OMA received the commission after winning an international design competition in 1998. An important element of the design, and the reason it was probably chosen, is the 150-metre-long, stainless-steel, soundproof tube that encircles the elevated trai…