Last Wednesday, Israel’s Wolf Foundation announced that British architect David Chipperfield is being recognized for overseeing the reconstruction of Berlin’s Neues Museum in a building that had been abandoned since World War II. His new building incorporated bricks, stairs and bullet holes from the original museum, which…

Berlin-based architecture studio SMAQ, in collaboration with HL landscape architects, has won the international competition for the re-de­sign of the historical port area in Magde­burg, Germany.

Dutch practice XML has won the competition for Europan 10 in Tallinn and received honorable mentions for its proposals in Madrid and Munich. Europan is a biannual, pan-European competition that aims to bring to the fore Europe’s young architecture and urban design professionals by realizing…

Now that‘s a groundbreaking: One year ago, in January 2009, Bustler reported on German Henn Architekten winning the 1st prize in the international competition for the China Life Insurance Research & Development Center. Now, just a few weeks ago on September 17, 2009, an…

German firm Henn Architekten has won the competition to design the new Headquarters of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The proposal was designed by Henn Architekten’s Design & Research Studio in Berlin, HENNStudioB.

Earlier this fall, Sauerbruch Hutton was announced first prize winner in the international competition to design a new home for Hamburg’s Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt/BSU (Office for Urban Development and Environment). The new BSU building will be erected in Hamburg Wilhelmsburg and is slated for completion…

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…

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…

The foundation Design Den Haag invites German designers and architects to send in projects that are commissioned by the German government. Projects concerning design for public space, visual communication and architecture will be placed on Design Den Haag’s website. Design Den Haag 2010-2018 researches the relation between…

The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that ‘Team Germany’ from the Technische Universität Darmstadt has won the 2009 Solar Decathlon with their project surPLUShome. This is the second time in a row that a team from TU Darmstadt wins this international contest…