New York-based Asymptote Architecture nears completion of The Yas Hotel project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Yas Hotel is a 500-room, 85,000-square-meter complex now under construction by Aldar Properties PJSC. Asymptote was awarded the commission to design the buildings and environs from a closed competition two years…

As many of our readers know, the winners were recently announced for the ThyssenKrupp Elevator Award 2008-09, and the results have proven to be quite controversial.  Winning projects -

Last Friday, Bustler posted the news of Italian architect Alberto Catalano of Teknoarch winning the international competition to design Lebanon’s new Arts and Culture House. Here’s another competition proposal by Copenhagen-based firm JAJA Architects. The title of the concept is “Culture…

Foster + Partners’ design for the UAE pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo has broken ground. Drawing inspiration from the form of a sand dune, the pavilion is a reference to this symbolic feature of the desert landscape shared by each of the seven emirates.

Just a few minutes ago, Bustler posted the news of Italian architect Alberto Catalano of Teknoarch winning the international competition to design the new House of Arts and Culture in Beirut, Lebanon. Here’s another very…

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…

Issue 76 of Israeli architecture magazine Architecture of Israel Quarterly is out now, and within it are the finalist works of the Project of the Year Competition 2008/09. Taking place for the third consecutive year, the competition has become the most important and influential in…

Agence France-Museums, in partnership with Abu Dhabi’s Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), announced that the firm of Nathalie Crinière has been selected to create the exhibition design for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, one of the five major institutions being planned for Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island Cultural District. Nathalie Crinière…

Martha Schwartz Partners Ltd has won an international design competition to provide the public realm and landscape design for Henning Larsen Architects-designed Massar Children’s Discovery Centre and public park in Damascus, Syria. Massar Children’s Discovery Centre and public park in Damascus, Syria…

London-based Metropolitan Workshop has won a closed competition for the new Museum of Conflict in Tripoli, Libya.  The museum will house permanent and special exhibitions on Libya’s unique history, telling the story of campaigns and conflicts that have shaped the country from colonial power to independent…