Last week, Bustler reported that the Taipei Pop Music Center competition had announced three finalists and four honorable mentions. Here’s a first glimpse at the entry that won Danish office JDS Architects / Julien de Smedt an honorable mention…

The Secchi-Vigano project for the renewal of Rue De La Loi in Brussels, Belgium has recently been unveiled by JDS/Julien De Smedt Architects. This master plan is sought to create permeability among what is now two isolated communities on either side of Rue de la…

The Belgian architect Julien De Smedt (b. 1975) of JDS Architects has been awarded the Rotterdam-Maaskant Prize for Young Architects 2009. Julien De SmedtThe prize goes to De Smedt because he combines typological innovation…

Julien De Smedt, of JDS Architects, gave a public lecture at Harvard University in the Graduate School of Design’s George Gund Hall on March 5, 2009. Topic: “Embracing Diversity”. Watch the video of the lecture here on Bustler:

Futuristic Alpine cabins in a Danish suburb. Graphics from floor to ceiling in Hong Kong. An unusual sheet metal stool. And a Norwegian ray of sunshine that plays with your psyche under the table. On February 3, the winners of the Forum AID Awards 2009 were revealed. The Nordic region’s…

JDS, in collaboration with Klar, will redesign the harbour front Kalvebod Brygge as the result of a tender held by the City of Copenhagen, within the newly established ‘Metropolzone’ The Metropolzone is a major development project to upgrade a part of…

JDS and Bjarke Ingels received the Danish TRÆPRISEN 2008 award for their conceptual and effective use of wood on the MAR_maritime youth house project and the VM_VM Houses. The MAR_maritime youth house project (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004):

(Brussels, August 13, 2008) JDS Architects is short-listed as the youngest one of five offices in what turns out to be a OMA three tier generation competition. The planning competition launched last April for the restructuring of the European quarter has now…