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…

The city of Wroclaw, Poland, recently announced the winning proposal of an international competition for the architectural design of a contemporary art museum building. The winning team is NIZIO Design International, represented by Miroslaw Nizio (Warsaw, Poland),…

The competition for Copenhagen’s “Music Square” recently unveiled its winning proposal. The goal of the competition is to make Music Square a new urban landmark which can accommodate everything from music to theater to new circus, as well as everyday lounging within a cozy café-like atmosphere.

Accordia in Cambridge designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects, and Macreanor Lavington has won the 13th RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects’ Journal. The judges commented: “This is high density housing at its very best, demonstrating that volume house-builders can deliver…

Hanover, Germany—The winners of the contractworld.award 2009 have now been selected. Following two days of consultation, a panel of leading professionals has decided which projects will be awarded the prestigious European architecture prize for interior design.  A total of 570 projects from 36 countries were competing for…

Amsterdam-based experimental design collaborative Platform 21, known for their infamous hacks of IKEA furniture, ran a Hack-your-IKEA competition this summer, and they have received nearly a hundred national and international entries to the contest. All from enthusiastic hackers that each in their own way changed an IKEA…