The design for Papendorp Business Park in Utrecht, The Netherlands, West 8 designed together with Wissing Stedebouw en Ruimtelijke Vormgeving, has won the Rietveld Award 2009. For the first time, a landscape and urban design project has…

Sheffield Hallam University has announced plans to develop a new £25m building that will become a city center landmark thanks to its innovative design. The new 9,500 sqm building on Charles Street in Sheffield, England will enable the University’s Faculty of Development and Society - currently split between the City…

The presentation of the 2009 LEAF Awards recently took place at a gala night in Berlin. The awards, sponsored by Emirates Glass, have rapidly become one of the most prestigious global architectural prizes acknowledging excellence in the international architectural, design and build professions. The awards are…

Domus (Russia) and the organizational committee of International architectural contest ARCHIP-2009 have named Culver City, California-based firm ZELLNERPLUS the winner of the ARCHIP-2009 Interior/Innovations award.

Danish firm 3XN Architects has won an architectural competition to transform the former freight train halls in Aarhus, Denmark into a new and dynamic cultural center. The winning design was part of an collaboration effort with Nord Arkitekter, Hans Ulrik…

Opening its doors to over 1,500 visitors is the biggest gathering of the global architectural community—the World Architecture Festival, just a few minutes outside Barcelona city center at the Centre Convencions International Barcelona (CCIB), started yesterday November 4 to 6, 2009. The festival, now in its…

A team lead by Danish architects COBE and Public Architects, in collaboration with Grontmij Carl Bro and Bartenbach LichtLabor, have yesterday been awarded first place in the international competition to design the new Norreport Train Station in Copenhagen,…

In September 2008, the historic city of Weilburg in Germany launched the “Rathaus-Terrassen” architectural contest as invited competition to design a replacement for an existing parking structure. London-based practice ACME was one of the 13 invited offices and eventually won the 1st prize in the public voting…

Kristin Jarmund Architects in collaboration with C. F. Møller Architects, has recently won a major competition to design a spectacular new landmark project in the city of Oslo, for the client KLP Eiendom AS, one of Norway’s largest property investors. The…

Danish architects BIG, in collaboration with British structural and civil engineering firm AKT, Swedish consultant Tyréns and German climate engineers Transsolar have just been awarded first place in a design competition in Malmø, Sweden for a 100,000 m2 first of its kind…