Winners have recently been announced of "Changing the Face – Moscow 2011," an international ideas competition aiming at redesigning the facade of the famous Pushkinsky movie theater in Moscow, Russia. The Pushkinsky is located at Pushkin Square, one of Moscow's most popular spots, and was built in 1961 to…

And here's another recent competition win for Mecanoo: The Dutch practice has won the international competition to design the new campus of the National University of Science and Technology (MISiS), one of the leading technical universities of Russia. The 100-acre campus will be located in…

Portuguese architects AWAKE are sharing with us their fascinating entry "ColmeiA" for the A101 Block City competition in Moscow, Russia. The concept is based on a modular system arranged in a dense city block which still allows for natural lighting from two fronts for each unit.

Architects Onat Öktem and Ziya Imren have shared with us their entry "Frozen Street - Dissolving Borders" for the A101 Block City Competition for Moscow, Russia. The team just recently won a first prize in the international competition The Building: Problem or Solution? with their entry "A Green Mosque…

The joint venture of Amsterdam-based de Architekten Cie. (Frits van Dongen, Patrick Koschuch and Jason Lee) and Rotterdam practice SVESMI (Alexander Sverdlov), are multiple winners of the open international competition A101 in Moscow, Russia. A101 Block City is the first phase of a huge 13,000…

Serbian/Russian OTASH/OTAKO Studio recently finished reconstruction work on Moscow’s State Kremlin Palace. The auditorium of this gigantic concert hall in the heart of Moscow, formerly known as Palace of Congresses, received a major update and was officially inaugurated in the presence of state and public representatives on…

Domus (Russia) and the organizational committee of International architectural contest ARCHIP-2009 have named Culver City, California-based firm ZELLNERPLUS the winner of the ARCHIP-2009 Interior/Innovations award.