Earlier this fall, the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona presented its awards to a number of international architecture projects that represented excellence according to this year’s theme “Less Does More” (previously on Bustler). One project that has been awarded with a high…

Danish architects BIG, in collaboration with British structural and civil engineering firm AKT, Swedish consultant Tyréns and German climate engineers Transsolar have just been awarded first place in a design competition in Malmø, Sweden for a 100,000 m2 first of its kind…

The Southend-on-Sea Borough Council in Essex, England announced the winner of the Southend Pier Head design contest: renowned Swedish based landscape architecture firm White arkitekter. The company - which has also won awards for other maritime architecture projects throughout the world - clinched the top place with…

In 2006, Frederik Kjellgren and Joakim Kaminsky won the international architecture competition for a new dance hall in Falsterbo, Sweden, and started their studio; Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture. Now the building “Mirage” is to be inaugurated.

The municipality of Helsingborg, Sweden, chose Schønherr Landscape and ADEPT Architects (both from Denmark) as winners of the planning competition of the 100Ha site of H+ in Helsingborg. The competition was invited and included: White architects AB (Sweden), KCAP Architects & planers (the…

Construction has finished on schmidt hammer lassen architects’ striking design for a new District Court in Malmö, Sweden. The completed scheme includes a new 10,000 sq m courthouse adjacent to the existing 3,000 sq m listed court building.

A winner in Stockholm‘s ambitious Slussen urban redesign competition has yet to be announced, but Bustler has already some exciting images of the currently shortlisted five proposals by internationally acclaimed architects like Sir Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel, and BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), as well as Swedish firms Nyréns Architects and…

French firm archi5 has been announced winner of the international master plan competition for Stockholm’s Nya Årstafältet neighborhood. archi5’s winning proposal ‘Arkipelag’ has been a collaboration with landscape architect Michel Desvigne. Illustration of archi5’s winning master plan proposal for Nya…

Futuristic Alpine cabins in a Danish suburb. Graphics from floor to ceiling in Hong Kong. An unusual sheet metal stool. And a Norwegian ray of sunshine that plays with your psyche under the table. On February 3, the winners of the Forum AID Awards 2009 were revealed. The Nordic region’s…

Amsterdam-based experimental design collaborative Platform 21, known for their infamous hacks of IKEA furniture, ran a Hack-your-IKEA competition this summer, and they have received nearly a hundred national and international entries to the contest. All from enthusiastic hackers that each in their own way changed an…