Click above image to enlarge Following up on our recent article announcing the finalists of the Slussen urban redesign…

Lord Foster is to be the 29th laureate of the prestigious Prince of Asturias award for the Arts, it was announced today and will be formally presented with the prize at…

French architect, Dominique Perrault, has been selected to design the new city center of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia. The jury was chaired by professor Helle Jul from Denmark, and the members were architects from Japan, France and the US. The city center will be built in the next…

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.

As reported the other day, six visions of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture will be on display from 2 p.m. Friday, March 27, through Friday, April 3, in the Smithsonian Institution Building (the Castle),…

Six visions of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture will be on display from 2 p.m. Friday, March 27, through Friday, April 3, in the Smithsonian Institution Building (the Castle), Washington, DC. The exhibition features design…

California State University Channel Islands in Camarillo, California announces that the John Spoor Broome Library has been named a winner in the California Construction magazine Best of 2008 awards program. The Library won the Award of Merit in the Outstanding Architectural Design category. An independent jury of industry experts in…

The joint submission by Foster + Partners and Aston Martin has won first prize, alongside Capoco Design, in Transport for London’s competition to design a new bus for the capital. The two iconic British brands worked together to challenge preconceptions of bus design…

Following the success of the inaugural traveling scholarship, which funded Ben Masterton-Smith’s research topic - Emerging East: Exploring and Experiencing the Asian Communist City - a second travel grant of £6,000 will be awarded to one student in 2008, selected from over 100 architecture schools with RIBA validation in the…

From the Archinect News: At last, Foster’s project for the reform of FC Barcelona’s 1957 stadium has been unveiled this Saturday Sept. 22: Foster adds a festive, colorful, sort of snake-like skin -a mixture of Nouvel’s pixellate Agbar Tower and H&dM’s inflatable Allianz Arena-, reminiscent of…