RRA and teams project “Sjørdarnsjenerøs” wins the invited design competition for the New Regional Cultural Center of Stjørdal, Norway. The Jury was unanimous in selecting the project as a winner. The planned program includes a concert hall, cinema, library, hotel and church with proposed completion by 2013.

Paris-based firm Serero Architects have won a competition for the design of the new library and auditorium for the University of Amiens in France. The design showcases a skin inspired by the scales of a conifer cone.

Guy Ailion of the University of Witwatersrand has scooped the prestigious Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Award for 2009 with his entry entitled ‘Everywhere is here - Architecture and a Developing Information Society’ which is an Open Information Campus in Kliptown, Soweto, South Africa. The project is dedicated to…

The Minister of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women, Christine St-Pierre, the Mayor of Montréal, Gérald Tremblay, and the Mayor of Saint-Laurent and Vice-Chair of the City of Montréal Executive Committee, Alan DeSousa, yesterday announced the winner of the Quebec-wide architectural competition for the new library in Montreal’s Saint-Laurent…

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…