Yesterday we published a first image of OMA's latest competition win, the Essence Financial Building in Shenzhen. Here is the project now in more detail.

OMA has been awarded the first place in the international design competition for the Essence Financial Building in Shenzhen, China. OMA Partners David Gianotten and Rem Koolhaas are heading the project which they intend to be a new generation office tower for Shenzhen.

Richard Meier & Partners Architects has emerged victoriously in an international competition involving Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects and gets to design a new mixed-use building in the HafenCity district of Hamburg, Germany. The new building is scheduled to open by 2015.

schmidt hammer lassen architects just completed another building in Kolding, Denmark: The International Business College (IBC) Innovation Factory was officially inaugurated yesterday by the Prince Consort of Denmark. The 12,800 m2 (137,780 sq ft) educational building has gone through a total refurbishment and is designed to support…

J. Mayer H. Architekten has completed the "Schlump One" project in Hamburg, Germany. The architects took on an administrative building originally built in the 1950s and gave it the curvy JMH trademark update.

Henning Larsen Architects has won the competition for a new research building for the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research in Stuttgart. The Center is one of Germany’s leading research institutions in the field of renewable energy. In July '11, the Danish firm had won…

UPDATE: We have received a set of renderings of the winning entry from Neil M. Denari Archtitects. Selected images have been added to the article. The entry by LA-based Neil M. Denari Architects has won the First Prize in the international competition for the…

Five architecture and design firms were recently honored by the annual Shaw Contract Group Design Is… Award program. This year's winning projects were selected from 285 entries from 19 countries. Shaw Contract Group Design is...…

Rotterdam's MVRDV has completed the transformation of a disused mustard laboratory in Dijon, France (previously on Bustler) into an innovative call center with an education center, incubator and social program.

Amsterdam's UNStudio has just realized its latest project, the Center for Virtual Engineering (ZVE) for the 'Fraunhofer-Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation IAO' in Stuttgart, Germany. The official opening took place this week with an opening ceremony during which the German Sustainable Building Council (DNGB) awarded…