The practice of former SOM London Design Director Michel Mossessian, mossessian & partners, will receive two awards at MIPIM Architectural Review Future Awards this year for Al Barahat Square, a new civic space in Doha, Qatar and the centerpiece of Qatari developer Dohaland’s $5.5 billion…

A collaborative design effort by A-lab (Oslo, Norway) and SEA (Copenhagen, Denmark) has been announced the winner of the competition for a new urban development on Skien Brygge in Norway. The project comprises the transformation of a former harbor area into a new urban community.…

The team of Atelier Big City, Fichten Soiferman et Associés and L’ŒUF has just been selected as winner of the architectural design competition for the future Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Cultural Centre in Montreal, Canada. The jury noted that the selected project stands out for…

Critically acclaimed architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design firm Snøhetta is the final choice for the 160,000 square foot extension at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. After a shortlist of four firms was announced…

Three Round 2 Finalists have been announced for The Hague’s new dance and music center on the Spuiplein: RAU, Neutelings Riedijk Architecten / Kirkegaard Associates, and Zaha Hadid Architects. The new building on the Spui Square will become the hot spot in The Hague for dance, opera, musicals, family shows,…

Three Round 2 Finalists have been announced for The Hague’s new dance and music center on the Spuiplein: RAU, Neutelings Riedijk Architecten / Kirkegaard Associates, and Zaha Hadid Architects. The new building on the Spui Square will become the hot spot in The Hague for dance, opera, musicals, family shows,…

Back in April, 16 Finalists had been announced for a new dance and music center on the Spuiplein in The Hague, The Netherlands. The new building on the Spui Square will become the hot spot in The Hague for dance, opera, musicals, family shows, theater, concerts, classical music…

Pétur J. Eiríksson, Chairman of Portus, announced earlier this week that the official opening and opening concert by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra at Harpa, Reykjavík’s new Concert Hall and Conference Centre, would take place on May 4, 2011. The opening concert will be conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy. On May 14,…

Just yesterday, the City of Frederiksberg, Denmark, the Danish Foundation for Culture and Sport Facilities and Realdania announced MVRDV and ADEPT winner of the House of Culture and Movement competition in Frederiksberg, Denmark.

Dutch practice Maxwan architects + urbanists wins first prize in the competition for a new cultural center and park in the city of Ostrava, Czech Republic. Ostrava is bidding to become the 2015 Cultural Capital of Europe. Every year, the European Capital of Culture is…