Earlier this fall, Sauerbruch Hutton was announced first prize winner in the international competition to design a new home for Hamburg’s Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt/BSU (Office for Urban Development and Environment). The new BSU building will be erected in Hamburg Wilhelmsburg and is slated for completion…

Schmidt hammer lassen architects have been announced as winners of the competition for a new zero-energy administration building of the Municipality of Aarhus, Denmark.  The competition, involving six firms, was won in collaboration with the contractor E. Pihl & Son, Engineers Grontmij / Carl Bro…

Oslo-based a-lab have been commissioned to design the new Oslo office for the Norwegian oil company StatoilHydro. a-lab’s proposal was chosen from 40 different competition entries. The office building will be modern, flexible and environmentally friendly, and it will be ready for occupation in autumn 2012. …

A Dublin office block branded hideous by hit Hollywood actor Gabriel Byrne has been entered in a major international architectural competition. The new Department of Finance on Merrion Row is one of a series of Irish projects by nine architects representing the country at the Venice Architecture Biennale in September.…