Every year, the Trieste Contemporanea Committee assigns a promising artist the Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award with the aim of promoting his work and exposing it to the international artistic scene. The winner of the 2009 edition was Driant Zeneli (Shkoder, Albania, 1983). The acknowledgement will…

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…

Italian architect Alberto Catalano of Teknoarch has won the international competition to design Lebanon’s new Arts and Culture House. Winning project for the new Arts and Culture House in Beirut by Alberto Catalano…

Rome-based studio aka Architetti has won the first prize in the “Ce.Te.S” international competition for an experimental television cultural/didactic center in the former Italcitrus packaging plant in Reggio Calabria, Italy. The competition was organized by the Reggio Calabria local authority. Second and third prize were won by…

The competition to regenerate a former industrial area in the North Italian city of Modena into a mixed-use public space has been won by a conglomerate of the firms Modostudio, CCDP, and Studio Cattinari. The site will host the new DAST, the city’s center for design, art, science and technology.…

On November 17, 2008 in Naples, David Chipperfield received the Cubo d’Oro Prize. The prize is presented annually by the Annali dell’Architettura Foundation and the city of Naples in order to recognize the contribution made by architecture professionals towards the development of architecture and urban territorial planning in this region…

Grafton Architects’ new faculty building for the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan has become the first World Building of the Year at the inaugural World Architecture Festival. Speaking at the awards ceremony, Festival director Paul Finch described the building as ‘a totally 3d piece of…

A 14,000 sqm park and a new sport center (3,128 sqm) are foreseen in Paglian Casale - Parco Radiceli, a suburbian area of Rome along the Via Ardeatina. Interior of the swimming pool. The project aims to reduce the impact of the…

The Italian architect Renzo Piano has been awarded the 2008 Sonning Prize (DKK 1 million) on 1 October at the University of Copenhagen. As an architect, Renzo Piano has left his intriguing marks around the world. His architecture can be seen as “an unerring, remarkable and quite extraordinary synthesis of…

AUGUST, 2008, Chicago, Illinois—The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd., announce sixty-six (66) new distinguished buildings selected this year in the Museum’s prestigious “American Architecture Awards®” program for 2008. Established over 10…