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Nothing is more fa­sci­na­ting to an ar­chi­tect and urban de­si­gner than a ra­pidly gro­wing city. New buil­dings that con­ti­nu­ally trans­form the city‘s ap­pearance, the chan­ging life­style of in­ha­bi­tants, the struggle to sur­vive in the cha…

On Mon­day, No­vem­ber 3rd at 7 pm, Kengo Kuma, who es­ta­blis­hed the Ja­pa­nese ar­chi­tec­tu­ral firm Kengo Kuma …

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 Ru…

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, 200…

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-on…

Precisely at a time when, ac­cor­ding to the spea­kers, ar­chi­tec­ture is both suc­cess­ful and power­less, it of­fers no an­s­wers to im­portant so­cial ques­ti­ons. To turn the tide, ar­chi­tects were en­cou­ra­ged to li­be­rate them­sel­ves from …

After Neu­rath is an event that seems to grow as spon­ta­neously as the urban de­ve­lop­ment en­vi­sa­ged by Neu­rath. For two years now – one year lon­ger than plan­ned – Stroom has been pro­gramming ac­tivi­ties about this idea­list. I vi­si­ted th…

On April 11 the world’s lar­gest mu­seum for news and jour­na­lism – the Newseum in Wa­shing­ton D.C. - opened its doors to the pu­blic. It was de­si­gned by Pols­hek Part­nership Ar­chi­tects, who crea­tes si­gna­ture, ico­nic buil­dings. The New Yo…

On the site of the last battle fought on Bri­tish soil, the new vi­si­tor centre, which opened on 16 April 2008, will house in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the battle, its preh­is­tory and af­ter­math, and will in­clude edu­ca­tio­nal and con­fe­rence fa­ci­li…

While 2007 was so­me­thing of a tran­si­tio­nal year that loo­ked to the past with big, lar­gely tra­di­tio­nal ex­hi­bi­ti­ons on Le Cor­bu­sier and Cuy­pers, the NAi is de­fi­ni­tely loo­king to the fu­ture in 2008. In ad­di­tion to the NAi’s in­st…

The idea is that the built works, more than the theory, shed light on what Dom Hans van der Laan had in mind. To ex­pe­ri­ence that, the NAi built re­pli­cas of a ves­ti­bule (entrance to a mo­nas­tery), a monk’s cell and Dom van der Laan’s own study…

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 de­si­gn…

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…

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 Cente…