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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…

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…

During a three-day event taking place in the Centre Convencions Internacional Barcelona (CCIB) from 22 – 24 October, the Festival will showcase and compare not only a wide range of international architecture but also regional projects. Over 700 proje…

Schmidt hammer lassen architects won the competition to redesign the old commercial and transportation port of the town of Holbaek. In many former industrial port areas around the world architectural work is currently in high demand. Not only in Hamb…

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…

Small rooms with a lot of luxury: that’s the formula behind Citizen M. »If you’re in town for a short stay, then you certainly don’t want a big luxury room with all the extras«, argues Jeroen Vester of Amsterdam design firm Concrete, ‘but the alterna…

The RIBA National and International Awards were announced on June 27th. The final shortlist for the £20,000 Stirling Prize which includes the RIBA National Awardees will be announced on July 17th, and the winner on October 11, 2008. East Beach Cafe (…

A new community centre, the Yan, dedicated to leading a more sustainable life-style by promoting awareness and encouraging conservation at an early age, was opened in Grizedale Forest on the 23rd of June by Lord Clark of Windermere, the Chairman of t…

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…

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…

Barking Town Square, designed by muf architecture/art, has been declared winner of the 5th European Prize for Urban Public Space, making it the first project in Britain to receive the prestigious prize. Barking Town Square is part of the Mayor’s 100 …

RMJM Hillier has been selected as the design architect and laboratory planner for the new research and development centre for the biotechnology company Genzyme Corp.. The centre will be based in Beijing's Zhongguancun Life Science Park. Inspiration f…

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…

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 …

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…