Perched on the edge of a rocky outcrop in Helsinki Harbour…
Archive | July, 2009 
S-Project by Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS
House extension in Broumana, Lebanon AN EXPLODED HOUSE, Preserving Nature, Highlighting it…
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects Win Major Education Project in Germany
Danish firm schmidt hammer lassen architects has won an international design competition for a new 13,500 m2 auditorium complex for the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen University) in Aachen, Germany. Twenty-one German and international companies were invited to participate in the competition. This is the first project for the Danish firm in Germany. The new auditorium center is due for completion in 2012.
Takaharu Tezuka Interview / Tezuka Architects
In this interview we asked Takaharu Tezuka about his relation with the current Japanese architecture panorama and how his occidental architecture training [studies in USA and work in Richard Rogers Partnership] determine his position in architecture, looking the city [the inspiration of certain Japanese architects] not in a positive way, trying to escape from the chaos of Tokyo.
RIBA Stirling Prize 2009 Shortlist Announced
A pioneering health center in London, an imposing winery in Spain, an elegant museum in Denmark and a mixed-use scheme residential scheme contributing to the regeneration of Liverpool are among the six building projects which have made it onto this year’s shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2009 in association with The Architects’ Journal and Crystal CG.
The prize is awarded to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year.
OMA-Designed MahaNakhon Tower Announced
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) released renderings today of their forthcoming MahaNakhon tower and plaza in Bangkok, Thailand, with design led by OMA partner Ole Scheeren, head of the firm’s Beijing office. The 1.6 million-square-foot, $515 million complex plans to include 200 apartments, a 150-room “Bangkok Edition” hotel operated by Marriott Group International with hotelier Ian Schrager, and mixed-use public and commercial space.
Gehry and Tannen Design Shotgun House for New Orleans
It appears that Frank Gehry, FAIA, is finding fertile ground in New Orleans.
In addition to designing a duplex for Brad Pitt’s “Make It Right” project, Gehry has teamed with urban planner and artist, Robert Tannen, to create a modular shotgun house that they say will be affordable, sustainable, and compatible with the city’s historic housing types.
YPORT FRANCE by Franklin Azzi
The house is situated on the cliffs of Normandy Yport, it dominates the valley.
Tezuka Architects / Fuji Kindergarten
0300TV presents a video of the Fuji Kindergarten in Tokyo designed by Tezuka Architects.
Herzog & de Meuron’s “Bird’s Nest” Wins RIBA Lubetkin Prize
The National Stadium in Beijing – nicknamed ‘the bird’s nest’ – by Herzog & de Meuron, with the China Architectural Design and research Group, Arup Sport and Ove Arup and Partners Hong Kong, and artist Ai Wei Wei, has scooped the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) prestigious Lubetkin Prize for the most outstanding work of architecture outside the European Union by an RIBA member.
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