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,…

The Lyon Housemuseum, a private house in Kew, Victoria, Australia designed as an art museum by Melbourne architectural practice Lyons has been awarded the Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award for Residential Architecture 2010 in the Australian Institute of Architects, Victorian Awards.

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.…

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…

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…

GROUP A, an international studio for architecture, interior and urban design, has won the competition for the new dance center in Nottingham, UK. The Rotterdam-based studio has been chosen out of five participants who were selected after an international competition. The competition was backed by international…

Sixteen architectural bureaus, including Zaha Hadid, Mecanoo, O.M.A., and Diller Scofidio Renfro, submitted their designs for a new dance and music center on the Spuiplein in The Hague, The Netherlands. Their work can be seen in an exhibition in the Atrium of The Hague City Hall from April 20 to…

March 11 marked the groundbreaking celebration at the historic Beverly Hills Post Office for the new Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, designed by Studio Pali Fekete architects (SPF:a).  The historic building will be restored and adapted, and the spaces that were once…

Last Friday, Bustler published the results of the Taipei Pop Music Center International Competition and showcased Studio Gang’s second prize-winning proposal. Now we also received some very exciting images of the competition’s First Prize winner:…

The Taipei Pop Music Center International Competition recently announced the final winners of Stage Two with the first prize going to Reiser + Umemoto RUR Architecture PC, New York (with FEI & CHENG ASSOCIATES, Taiwan), second…