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…

Amsterdam-based experimental design collaborative Platform 21, known for their infamous hacks of IKEA furniture, ran a Hack-your-IKEA competition this summer, and they have received nearly a hundred national and international entries to the contest. All from enthusiastic hackers that each in their own way changed an…

On Monday October 6th, the emir of Dubai, Sjeik Mohammed bin Rashi al-Maktoum, officially opened the seventh Cityscape Dubai 2008. During the gala dinner of the largest real estate and development event of its kind, Mecanoo director Francine Houben received the Cityscape Architectural Award for…

Rotterdam, The Netherlands—The city of Tirana and an international jury announced MVRDV winner of the competition for the urban masterplan creating a new dense urban neighborhood with a park and public facilities at the shore of Tirana Lake, in the south of the Albanian capital.

The Architects of Mourik Challenge Prize has been awarded to Dutch Royal Academy of Fine Arts (RAFA) interior architecture student Jan Willem Terlouw. The Architects of Mourik celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2005. In that year, working with the Royal Academy of…

The Royal Institute of Dutch Architects (BNA) has awarded cepezed architects with the BNA Cube 2008 for its complete body of work. The BNA Cube is the highest decoration of the institute and is presented for exceptional merits within Dutch architecture.