The national opera in Iceland aquires a new shining opera house with views to elf hill and the surrounding town When building in Iceland up to the elf hill Borgarholt, it demands a special in depth understanding of Iceland’s history. A completely new opera house for the Icelandic national opera…

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.

Johannesburg, South Africa – Africa’s premier shopping destination will soon receive a R1.77 billion ($226 million) face-lift from RTKL, the international architecture, planning, engineering and creative services firm. Opened in 1974 and renovated twice since, the 158,000-SM Sandton City Shopping Centre is a mixed-use facility comprising over 300 shops, an…

Architects Denton Corker Marshall, working in collaboration with engineers Hyder Consulting and Kenneth Grubb Associates, have won the international design competition for the Te Wero Bridge in Auckland, New Zealand. The NZ$50 million bridge will link the city’s CBD with Wynyard Quarter…

And the winner is: Robert Humble, Joel Egan, Ben Spencer, Owen Richards, Tom Mulica, and Kate Cudney, with Hybrid / ORA, Seattle, Washington. Finalists: Five finalists were selected from 182 entrants proposing a sustainable, affordable house that addresses the needs of a low-income family in the Gulf Coast region. The…

It has just been announced that schmidt hammer lassen architects has won the competition for the new campus for VIA University College in Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark. The VIA Campus is a remarkable educational facility which will serve to unite activities of one…

AUGUST, 2008, Chicago, Illinois—The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd., announce sixty-six (66) new distinguished buildings selected this year in the Museum’s prestigious “American Architecture Awards®” program for 2008. Established over 10…

The International Concrete Design Competition for Students is a biennial ideas and design competition for students in architecture, engineering, design and affiliated disciplines. It aims at promoting innovative design attitudes related to the use of concrete as a material and a technology. It is…

The Jurors of AIP 23, hosted by the American Society of Architectural Illustrators, have made their selections and the Members’ Choice voting is closed. The following is a selection of the sixty jury selected images for AIP 23… Hugh Ferriss Award: Frank M Costantino

Plasma Studio has been announced at MIPIM, the international market for the property industry, as the winner of the 2008 Next Generation Architects / Pipers Award. Following in the footsteps of previous winners, Jamie Fobert Architects, FAT and dRMM,…