The first project in Vietnam for British practice Foster + Partners, the VietinBank Business Centre in Hanoi, has broken ground with a big ceremony last Friday. The landmark towers, strategically located between central Hanoi and the airport, bring together the Bank’s headquarters, conference, hotel and leisure facilities.

The city council of Slovenian capitol Ljubljana approved the project Shopping Pillow Terraces designed by OFIS Arhitekti. Construction for this new mixed-use building on Ljubljana's main pedestrian street is scheduled to start in mid-2011. Shopping Pillow Terraces is the result of an invited competition from 2009.

Danish architects 3XN have won the First Prize in the invited international competition for a new structure marking the entrance to Vällingby Parkstad in Stockholm, Sweden. According to 3XN, the softly shaped building symbolizes the human values characterizing the revival of Vällingby Parkstad and thus creates a close…

A Japanese team of star architects – Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop – is the winner of the architectural competition launched by the Zurich Airport for “The Circle”. The project involves an upscale complex for innovative services within walking distance of…

In December 2008, Italian fashion brand United Colors of Benetton launched the international competition Designing in Teheran to develop a design for two multistory buildings in Iran’s capital city of Teheran. Designers were called to integrate the new structures in the local urban and commercial setting…

The names of the winners of the first Commerce Design Brussels contest have recently been announced at a gala event held at the Fondation pour l’Architecture in Brussels, Belgium. Developed based on an original concept from the Ville de Montréal, the contest aims to reward merchants in the Brussels region…