3XN’s New Design for a City Hall and Cultural Center in the Dutch City of Nieuwegein

3XN has designed the new City Hall and cultural center in the Dutch city of Nieuwegein. Here you can see the new building. Continue

Announcing the SLANT Awards Spring 2012 Competition: Design a Concept Plan for a City Sector

The SLANT AWARDS SPRING 2012 Competition is open to all, with the challenge being to design a concept plan for a city sector which is undergoing urban renewal. Continue

Barreca & La Varra: The Design Ideas Behind the New Building B5 in Milan

The new office building B5 designed by Barreca & La Varra studio has just been completed. The building is an integral part of a master plan intended for research and intellectual work. Continue

3Sixty Cafe by Ismini Karali: Encouraging Optimism and the Search for Opportunities

3Sixty has just opened a cafe in Nafplio, the first capital of Greece. The concept of the interior design is the result of the creative thinking of architect and interior designer, Ismini Karali. Continue

The Winning Proposal for the Kimball Art Center: BIG & Architectural Nexus

BIG and Architectural Nexus are the winners in the architectural competition for the Kimball Art Center In Utah, USA. Here you can find their concept, and why they won the competition. Continue

Here is NAP’s Winning Project for the Europan 11 Competition

NAP is the winning team for the Europan 11 competition. This is their concept. Continue

New High-Speed Rail Station in Spain: To be Designed by Foster + Partners

Architecture and design studio, Foster + Partners, has won an international competition to design Ourense AVE Station in Spain. Here's their concept. Continue

Beppu Art Month 2011 Earthscape Exhibition: Researching the Vegetation of Beppu

Earthscape has rented an old wooden apartment in Beppu since 2010, and has used it as its lab to study the relationship between people and the environment through research on the vegetation, history, and origin of the 2.7 x 3.6 m space itself. Continue

BIG Renovates Transitlager in Switzerland: Tailoring it for Creative Businesses & Workshops

The existing 18.000 m2 Transitlager built in the late 1960s is to be renovated and extended by up to 7.000 m2 for residential and arts related purposes. The architecture studio that will do the job is BIG. Continue

Follow the Landscape Design Development of the Sports Park Stozice

This is how architects SADAR + VUGA are planning and designing their hybrid urban project, the Sports Park Stozice. Continue

3XN’s Museum of Liverpool will Launch July 19th: Showcasing Social History and Popular Culture

3XN's Museum of Liverpool will launch July 19th. It's the largest national museum to open in the United Kingdom for more than a hundred years. Continue

BIG Wins The Competition To Design a Major Cultural Center In Albania

BIG, Martha Schwartz Landscape, Buro Happold , Speirs & Major, Lutzenberger & Lutzenberger, and Global Cultural Asset Management are announced as the winning team of the international design competition for a new 27.000 m2 cultural complex in Albania.
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This Year’s AECOM Student Competition Focuses on Water

AECOM's student competition 2011 has its focus on the world's most vital resource, water. Continue

No Rules, Great Spot Competition: Got Ideas for the Praça de Lisboa?

No rules, great spot is a sentence written/graffiti in a wall of the demolished Praça de Lisboa and has become the motto for this international ideas competition to a paradigmatic space, in Oporto 's city centre. Continue

LOFT London Farm Tower 2011: Design a New Skyscraper on the Thames Waterfront

In London there is still a strong demand for housing and for public functions in downtown areas where the presence of public transportation makes the site extremely strategic. Continue

Get Ready for This Year’s Lively Architecture Festival in Montpellier

If you live close to the city of Montpellier, you might want to visit the 6th edition of Lively Architecture, which will be held from 15th to 19th june 2011. Continue

Experiencing the City: An opportunity to Think About the Present Condition of Urban Spaces

SUN.LAB 2011 will gather the production of Italian and foreign designers who are capable to create experimental scenarios, brand new concepts, and projects not yet in production. Continue

BIG Wins the Stockholmsporten Master Plan Competition with Their Proposal: the Energy Valley

BIG, Grontmij and Spacescape are the winning team for the Stockholmsporten master plan competition to design a new entrance portal into Stockholm at the intersection of a newly planned super‐junction. Continue