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The Portuguese architect Àlvaro Siza has been announced as the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Gold Medallist. He will be presented with the Medal at the Royal Gold Medal and Fellowships Dinner at a ceremony in the RI…
The Portuguese architect Àlvaro Siza has been announced as the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Gold Medallist.
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Amongst all the young, experimental, activist, ‘out there’ and ‘beyond’ offices in the Italian pavilion in the Giardini (which included many Dutch contributors), a number of old masters have been inc…
In part four about the architects presenting their projects in the exhibition Home/Away in the British Pavilion in Venice you can see projects of Tony Fretton Architects.As in a Du…
Construction begins in New York City on the first high-rise tower of Herzog & de Meuron. The building at 56 Leonard Street will be a 57-story residential building at the intersection of Church Street and Leonard Street in the Tribeca H…
The RIBA has announced the shortlist of this year’s special awards, which are chosen from the RIBA Award winners. The awards will be presented at the Stirling Prize ceremony on 11 October in Liverpool.
Arkitema (DK) and Arkthing’s (IS) winning proposal created a building both to the Opera, the elves, the capital’s residents and the town of Kopavogur in Reykjavik.
The city is also fragmented programmatically. Besides the Centro Internacional from the 1970s, the city boasts a series of larger and smaller highrise clusters and business districts. The retail trade has its own logic with concen…