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

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…

First of all, Colombia is a festive country. No matter where you order a drink or a juice, it’ll always be served with a straw – even in expensive restaurants and even as a handy stirring implement with tea or coffee. What’s more, a daily dose of Sal…

On October 16th at 11 am Japanese architect Toyo Ito will be awarded the 6th Austrian Friedrich Kiesler Price for Architecture and Arts by Dr. Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Viennese councilman for science and culture, at the senate conference room at the …

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…

In collaboration with Czech architect Marcela Steinbachová (from Prague-based office Skupina) Steven Holl Architects has realized the interiors for the Franz Kafka Society in the centre of Prague’s former Jewish quarter. The 172 square metre project …

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 …

In September 2007, Uppsala opened its new Concert and Congress Hall which is located in the centre of the town. The 8 floors-high and 37 metres-tall building offers a spectacular view of the city, some of the landmarks that can be viewed being the Ca…

Tuesday October 17‘Noodles or Magnum?’ What a choice I think half sleepily as I hear the stewardess in the distance. Slurping my noodles, I’m impressed by the seemingly endless cinnamon coloured Gobi Desert down below. Having stu…

Among the activities taking place are the workshops organised by The Lighthouse, Scotland's centre for architecture, design and the city and Archiprix International. All the participant of the Archiprix Internation 2005 edition were invited to partic…

In the same week as the presentation of the bulky design book False Flat, five prominent foreign curators concluded that Dutch art is in a state of slumber and is of no international importance. The reason, they claim, is the harmful effect of the Du…

Lower secondary professional education has a bad name, and that's what client Ben Steenweg wanted to talk about before discussing the building. That bad name is the result of a number of incidents in a number of schools. In Hoorn the problems are alm…

In 2001 KCAP was invited to take part in a competition to design a satellite town for Shanghai. The brief explicitly called for a 'Dutch' design. In the periodical Archis (issue 4, 2002), Shiuan-Wen Chu and Ruurd Gietema of KCAP enthusiastically expl…