On Wednesday, April 8, Amsterdam city planning councilman Maarten van Poelgeest announced Arons en Gelauff Architects as the winner of the adaptive reuse design competition for the two former sewage treatment silos in Amsterdam’s Zeeburg district: the Annie MG Schmidt House. Annie MG Schmidt (1911-1995)…

During the official opening of Studio Dumbar China‘s new office in Shanghai, four parties: the Shanghai Creative Center, the Willem De Kooning Academy, Studio Dumbar China and Michel de Boer, presented a declaration of intent for the start up of a new design educational program in…

The burned down building of the TU Delft On March 14 Education Minister Ronald Plasterk announced the winners of the Building for Bouwkunde International Ideas Competition.…

Today Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has announced the winner of the ‘Create a Barrier of Silence’ design competition. The winning design for an innovative noise-reduction facility at Runway 18R-36L is the ‘Ecobarrier’ submitted by Toine van Goethem. Of all entries, the Ecobarrier achieved the highest scores in terms of sustainability, innovation…

The cepezed-designed expansion and renovation of the Westraven office complex in Utrecht has won the Dutch Construction Award 2009 in the Buildings category. cepezed-architect Ronald Schleurholts and project manager Etienne Schoenmaeckers of the commissioning Government Buildings Agency received the prize during the festive Gala of Dutch Construction…

Rotterdam-based Studio Dumbar has been awarded a commission for the design of public space elements in the new city of Unjeong[1]. The new city of 200,000 inhabitants is located near the demilitarized zone on the border between North and South Korea. The project includes the design of 85 elements in…

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been awarded the first prize in the design competition to build the Taipei Performing Arts Centre. The design, led by OMA partners Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, was selected from over 135 entries from 24 countries by an international jury.

The Daewoo Consortium and the municipality of Gwanggyo announced the MVRDV concept design for a dense city centre winner of the developer’s competition for the future new town of Gwanggyo, located 35km south of the Korean capital Seoul. The plan consists of a series of overgrown hill shaped buildings with…

An international jury chaired by Chief Government Architect of The Netherlands, Liesbeth van der Pol, has selected three winners for the international architectural competition for the new International Criminal Court building in The Hague. Prize winners The winning architectural firms are:Ingenhoven Architects, Düsseldorf, GermanySchmidt Hammer Lassen / Bosch &…

In May 2010, the largest World Expo in history will take place in China. Organizers expect 200 participating countries and 70 million visitors to attend. The Amsterdam-based design practice Kossmann.dejong, in collaboration with Hypsos Leisure Asia from Hong Kong, won the international competition for the design and construction of the…