Now that‘s a groundbreaking: One year ago, in January 2009, Bustler reported on German Henn Architekten winning the 1st prize in the international competition for the China Life Insurance Research & Development Center. Now, just a few weeks ago on September 17, 2009, an…

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and a team of consultants have won the largest ever commission on the Faroe Islands for a 19,200 m2 Education Center in Torshavn. In collaboration with Fuglark, Lemming & Eriksson, Sámal Johannesen, Martin E. Leo and…

A community organization founded by young people in Nairobi’s slums has won the ONE Africa Award, an annual prize given by the global anti-poverty group to honor ground-breaking work by African non-governmental organizations. SIDAREC (the Slums Information Development and Resources Centres) have been awarded…

The international competition for the Taipei Pop Music Center recently announced the three finalists and four honorable mentions. The competition aims to build a large pop music performing center in northern Taiwan that also includes an outdoor performing plaza. The center seeks to support…

Construction work has begun on the auditorium and congress center “Paisaje telurico” in Morro Jable, in the Pájara municipality of Fuerteventura, the Canary Islands, Spain. The center, organically flowing with the rock formations near the beach, has been a 1st prize competition win for Spanish architecture practice

The Knut Hamsun Center, located in Hamarøy, Norway and designed by Steven Holl Architects, will open to the public on August 4, 2009 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Knut Hamsun’s birth. Dedicated to Norway’s most inventive twentieth-century writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize in…

Martha Schwartz Partners Ltd has won an international design competition to provide the public realm and landscape design for Henning Larsen Architects-designed Massar Children’s Discovery Centre and public park in Damascus, Syria. Massar Children’s Discovery Centre and public park in Damascus, Syria…

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 impact of the…