The Taipei Performing Arts Center International Competition recently announced three shortlisted proposals, as well as four honorable mentions. Shortlisted Submissions:Number: 54, Tenderer: Morphosis Architects / Thom Mayne Nationality: USANumber: 71, Tenderer: Jose Ignacio ABALOS Nationality: SpainJoint Tenderer: Renata Sentkiewicz Nationality: Spain (ABALOS+SENTKIEWICZ ARQUITECTOS)Number: 99, Tenderer: Office for Metropolitan…

The shortlist is announced for the competition to design a new mixed tenure, affordable housing development on the Greyhound Opening site in Norwich, United Kingdom. The Delivering Affordable Housing Partnership (DAHP) - a partnership of Norwich City Council, Broadland Housing & Orbit Housing Partnership, Circle Anglia Ltd, Flagship…

Via Building Design: Belfast-firm Hackett Hall McKnight have topped a strong shortlist to win the Young Architect of the Year 2008 award. Alastair Hall (left), Mark Hackett and Ian McKnight. (Photo via Building Design)…

Grafton Architects’ new faculty building for the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan has become the first World Building of the Year at the inaugural World Architecture Festival. Speaking at the awards ceremony, Festival director Paul Finch described the building as ‘a totally 3d piece of design’…

Scandinavian practice schmidt hammer lassen architects has won the prestigious Emirates Glass LEAF Awards Grand Prix for its Performers House project, a modern version of a Danish folk high school, situated in the heart of Silkeborg, Denmark The project – centered on a…

It’s Day 2 at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona, Spain, and the winners of the World Architecture Festival Awards have just been announced. Previously headed by Lord Norman Foster, the international judging panels, comprised of architects, allied professionals, clients and critics, decided on…

At a meeting on September 3, the Oslo City Parliament passed the resolution that the Deichman Main Library, the Munch Museum and the Stenersen Museum are to be placed in the area of Bjørvika in the nearby of other cultural institutions. Yesterday, the RFQ-commitee for the international design competition that…

A 14,000 sqm park and a new sport center (3,128 sqm) are foreseen in Paglian Casale - Parco Radiceli, a suburbian area of Rome along the Via Ardeatina. Interior of the swimming pool. The project aims to reduce the…

Via Building Design: Six firms have made it onto the shortlist for the 2008 Young Architect of the Year Awards, sponsored by Autodesk. Supported by BD magazine and part of the Architect of the Year Awards, the Young Architect category aims to celebrate…

In May 2010, the largest World Expo in history will take place in China. Organizers expect 200 participating countries and 70 million visitors to attend. The Amsterdam-based design practice Kossmann.dejong, in collaboration with Hypsos Leisure Asia from Hong Kong, won the international competition for the design and construction of the…