Two projects of Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat have been officially opened earlier this week in the Khanti-Mansiysk autonomous region of Siberia: the Chess Club building in Khanty-Mansiysk and the Vershina Trade & Entertainment Center in Surgut.

Toronto-based Ja Architecture Studio, in collaboration with Tadj-Farzin Studio, have sent us their proposal for the Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center competition. The international competition aims to make Kaohsiung, Taiwan an incubator of the pop music industry in Southern Taiwan and throughout the Asian pop…

Martinez + Johnson Architecture from Washington, D.C. have shared with us their entry to the Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center competition. The concept missed to reserve a place on the shortlist announced earlier this year in September, but we're delighted to present it to a…

C. F. Møller Architects has won the competition for the new Kristiansund Opera and Culture Centre in Norway. Earlier this summer, the Danish firm was awarded a shared first prize with Space Group (Norway) and Brisac Gonzalez (UK) in the competition, but now…

The unveiling of the grand winners of the (re-announced) Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center competition in Taiwan isn't expected before mid-January of next year, so in the mean time, we're happy to publish this exciting design proposal by Vienna-based Iranian architect Rojiar Soleimani in collaboration with…

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…

RRA and teams project “Sjørdarnsjenerøs” wins the invited design competition for the New Regional Cultural Center of Stjørdal, Norway. The Jury was unanimous in selecting the project as a winner. The planned program includes a concert hall, cinema, library, hotel and church with proposed completion by 2013.

Prize winner of the competition for the new cultural center of Meudon-la-Forêt, France, Serero Architects, has designed a building wrapped by an organic concrete shell. The project will be presented at the mediatheque of Meudon from June 22nd until July 10th, 2010.…

Paris-based OFF Architecture has recently won the competition for the Cultural Center in Cugnaux, France. If the name doesn’t immediately ring a bell with you, check out OFF Architecture’s fascinating entry for the Bering Strait Project that won the studio…

SAMOO Architecture PC, the New York studio of SAMOO Architects and Engineers based in Seoul, Korea, announced today that it has won an international competition for the design of The New York Korea Center, a new home for the Korean Cultural Service in New York. The…