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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 Architectural League present the work and ideas of the world's most interesting and influential architects and designers to New York, national and international audiences, through lectures, exhibitions, publications, and the worldwide web. The Ar…

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

The new faculty building for the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, designed by the Irish practice Grafton Architects, has won the first World Building of the Year Award at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona. It was selected as from 224 sho…

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…

On Tuesday, October 28th at 7pm, Craig Dykers, the co-founder of the architecture and design firm Snøhetta is holding a lecture on their current works in The Great Hall, the Cooper Union in New York. photo: Gerald Zugman ­In 2004 the Norwegian compan…

The new Arctic culture centre in Hammerfest, the world’s northernmost town, designed by a-lab architects was completed this month. The building, which is used as a venue for art, cultural events and conferences, is visible from both land and sea and …

At the end of September the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies announced the winners of this year’s International Architecture Awards…

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 (…

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-one and slipped ins…

The jury of the 2008 UIA Gold medal decided in April 2008 to award the medal to the Mexican architect Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon. He will receive the medal at a ceremony, on 2 July 2008, during the twenty third UIA Congress in Turin. Through this medal…

Next to Amsterdam Central Station, a new building houses the Conservatorium van Amsteradam, which opened on April 21, 2008. Designed by Frits van Dongen of Cie., the buidling is a school and concert hall in one, which is situated in the culturally in…

A new music centre for school children opened in early April in the city of Hull, UK. The design for the £ 3 million- building was delivered by London-based Holder Mathias Architects. Worldarchitecturenews.com reports the opening of “a new striking l…

New designs for worldwide architectural projects by Zaha Hadid reach us almost weekly. Now Zaha Hadid Architects have designed a rug for non-profit organization Arzu. The one-of-a kind rug is part of Arzu Rug’s "Hope by Designers” collection and come…

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. No atte…