JDS Architects’ Holmenkollen Ski Jump has been announced as the winner of the 2011 ECCS Structural Steel Design Award today at the ECCS Congress in Potsdam, Germany. The award recognizes outstanding design in steel construction emphasizing the many advantages of steel in construction, production, economy…

Here's another fairly recent competition win for JDS/Julien De Smedt Architects: Faaborg Harbour Bath in the south of Fyn, Denmark. The winning design was created in collaboration with KLAR, Creo Architects and Sloth-Møller engineers.

JDS/Julien De Smedt Architects has shared with us the proposal for a mixed-use development in Hangzhou, China which recently won the Belgian firm the First Prize in the invited competition. The design team also included engineering firm China CUC. The Hangzhou Gateway program includes offices,…

JDS / Julien de Smedt Architects have been announced winners of the 1st prize for an invited competition to design a police department in the heart of Old-Berchem, Antwerp, Belgium.

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…

In September 2007, Copenhagen/Bussels/Oslo-based office Julien de Smedt Architects was named the winner of the international competition for a new Holmenkollen ski jump in Norway‘s capitol Oslo (previously on Bustler). As construction work on site is well on its way (see…

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…