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News from home! Belgium based architects BOB361 designed this office building for VDAB located in St. Niklaas, Belgium. The project got recently shortlisted in the office category of the World Architecture Festival this year.
Staff can enter the building via an internal staircase from the car park beneath the building. The building on top is supported by black [...]
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Last year, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners completed the Bodegas Protos winery in Peñafiel, Spain. The 19,450 square metre winery features facilities to ferment, age and bottle 3 million bottles of wine a year. Recently, the Bodegas Protos winery got nominated for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2009. Defitnely take a look at the sketches below!
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Ashton Raggatt McDougal (ARM) architects designed the Melbourne Recital Centre and the neighbouring Melbourne Theatre Company helping to transform the formerly derelict Southbank area of the city in to the dynamic district it has now become. Formely they got honoured with the 2009 Victorian Architecture Medal winning highest accolades in three categories for public architecture, [...]
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The Spanisch architects Jose Selgas en Lucia Cano of Selgascano designed an office for their own practice that is located in the woods near Madrid in Spain.
The curved window is made out of a 20mm thick transparant acrylic that forms the noth facing wall of the office. The other side, the opaque on the south [...]
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The Pritzker Prize, nobel-equivalent for architecture, laureate for 2009 has been announced: this year the prize goes to Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (1943). More info and images on the Pritzker Prize website. A couple of buildings designed by Peter Zumthor are: Brother Klaus Field Chapel, Kolumba Art Museum, Swiss Pavillion Expo Hannover, Therm Vals, and [...]
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The European Commission and the Fundacio Mies van der Rohe announced today the finalists for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2009, one of the most important and prestigious prizes for international architecture. By supporting the Prize, the European Commission underlines the role of architecture as a driver [...]
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(Picture is a screenshot from Wallpaper’s website)
The results are finally here: the best of the best and the very highly commended of the rest, as chosen by our esteemed panel of judges – Kanye West, Jean Nouvel, Ines de la Fressange, Marc Newson, Sir Ken Adam and Stefano Pilati. See the winners on Wallpaper..
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The European Commission and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation announced the list of 340 projects competing for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2009.
Initiated in 1987, the EUR 60,000 prize is the highest award in European architecture and is awarded biennially to works completed within the previous [...]
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Project 2 in Copenhagen, Denmark this week: Ørestad College.
Ørestad College is designed by 3XN Architects and completed in 2007 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was a restricted competition, that 3XN Architects has won.
Some text from 3XN Architects:
The Ørestad College is the latest ‘gymnasium’ (college or upper secondary school) in Copenhagen, built in the Danish capital’s development area; [...]
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Villa 1 – Powerhouse Company
Villa 1 is a woodland house in the veluwe Zoom area naer Arnhem in the Netherlands. The house was designed by architects Powerhouse Company and has won an award as the ‘best private interior’ at the Dutch Design Awards last week. It has also been nominated for the AM NAi prize 2008.
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