A community organization founded by young people in Nairobi’s slums has won the ONE Africa Award, an annual prize given by the global anti-poverty group to honor ground-breaking work by African non-governmental organizations. SIDAREC (the Slums Information Development and Resources Centres) have been awarded…

Croatian architecture firm 3LHD recently finished the Zamet Center in Rijeka, an industrial port city in Croatia. The center is a brand new building that will have a great impact on the local community. The project is a hybrid, with mixed use facilities: multipurpose sports hall, new…

Invited as one of five pre-selected architect led teams, Danish practice BIG was awarded first prize in the open international design competition for Kazakhstan’s New National Library which included 19 entrants, among others Lord Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid.

REX and Principal in Charge Joshua Prince-Ramus have been named the winner of the BibLLLiotheek competition to build a “Library of the Future” for the city of Kortrijk, Belgium. New York-based REX partnered with landscape architects Bureau Bas Smets in entering the competition, which…

Just a few days ago, Bustler reported on the prestigious international competition for the new Munch Museum and Deichman Library building in Oslo. The competition results have now been officially announced: Spanish Herreros Arquitectos received the first price in the Munch Area competition with their proposal ”Lambda”.…

In the competition to design a new Culture House and Library in Copenhagen, a collaborated design by Danish architects COBE and Transform has been awarded the first prize. This is how the architects describe their project: The Northwest…

Since March 12, the City of Oslo exhibits the 40 contributions for the Munch Area and the Deichman Axis architecture competition (previously on Bustler). The list of invited architects includes names like Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, and Foreign Office Architects. Among the prequalified architects are…

Just a few days ago, we reported on drdharchitects’s winning proposal in the international competition to design a new library and concert hall in Bodø, Norway. Here is another exciting proposal for Bodø‘s new cultural center that made it into the shortlist, by London-based

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced yesterday the eight recipients for the 2009 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards. Biennially, representatives from the AIA and the American Library Association (ALA) gather to celebrate the finest examples of library design by architects licensed in the U.S. The 2009 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards…

Danish practice schmidt hammer lassen architects (SHL Architects) has won an international competition to design “Urban Mediaspace”, the largest public library in Scandinavia.  The €228 ($288) million scheme, located in Aarhus, Denmark, will become a new visual and cultural focal point for the city whilst pioneering the next generation of…