And here's another entry to the international competiton for a hotel residence at ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, in the Atacama Desert, in the foothills of the Chilean Andes. This proposal here, we received from Paris-based LAN Architecture who collaborated with German structural engineers…

Finnish architects Kouvo & Partanen have just recently been chosen to design a hotel residence for the astronomers, engineers, and other observatory staff working at ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. At 2,900 meters above sea level, the hotel residence will be built at the…

Danish and French architects BIG & OFF, engineers Buro Happold, consultants Michel Forgue and environmental engineer Franck Boutte is the winning team to design the new 15,000 m2 research center for Sorbonne Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris.…

Yong Ju Lee and Brian Brush, partners of New York/Portland-based design collaboration EB Office, have sent us photos and plans of their latest interactive media installation Dynamic Performance of Nature in Salt Lake City's Leonardo Museum of Art, Science and Technology.

Danish Henning Larsen Architects have shared with us their finalist competition entry for the new University Hospital & Faculty of Health Sciences in Odense, Denmark. As part of a team consisting of Friis & Moltke, TKT, Cowi, Rambøll Danmark, SLA Landscape and NNE Pharmaplan, Henning Larsen Architects…

Mariusz Wrzeszcz Office from Poznan, Poland has shared with us their entry for the Block 39, Center for the Promotion of Science competition. The project was a collaborative effort of Mariusz Wrzeszcz Office with a group of students comprising Alba Labuda, Hugon Kowalski, Adam Wiercinski, and Borys Wrzeszcz, all…

Slovenian office SADAR+VUGA has shared with us its entry for the Block 39, Center for the Promotion of Science competition. The science center building is part of the master plan competition project in Belgrade, Serbia. SADAR+VUGA's master plan design incorporates the existing building of the Faculty…

Spanish architect Santiago Parramón's RTA-Office recently received an Honorable Mention for their project Block 39, Center for the Promotion of Science in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia. The project was conceived and developed jointly by RTA-Office’s teams in the Barcelona and Shanghai offices. This center for the scientific…

We have received construction photos, plans and renderings of an exciting project in Vitanje, Slovenia: The Cultural Center of European Space Technologies. The design titled Space Wheel_Noordung Space Habitation Center is a collaborative effort of four Slovenian architecture firms: Bevk Perovic arhitekti, Dekleva Gregoric arhitekti,…

Snøhetta was recently selected by the University of Guadalajara as the winner of the competition to design the new Museum of Environmental Science. Other firms shortlisted for this project were Shigeru Ban (Japan), Diller Scofidio + Renfro (United States), Smiljan Radic (Chile),…