With its complex faceted shape Viborg Town Hall becomes a symbol of the new large municipal community that opens in the wake of the municipal merger.

OMA’s Stadskantoor design wins BREEAM award
OMA’s design for a new building for Rotterdam’s town hall – now in the design development phase – has received a four-star (“Excellent”) rating from BREEAM (the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method). OMA won the competition for Stadskantoor in 2009, responding to the design brief’s stipulation that the building must be the most sustainable in the Netherlands.
“The Open Parliament of Albania”, Tirana, Albania by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU’s winning scheme for ‘The New Parliamentary Complex of the Republic of Albania’ officially confirmed. Details after the jump
The New United Arab Emirates Parliament Building Complex by Ehrlich Architects
Ehrlich Architects have been awarded the grand prize in the international architectural competition to design the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) Federal National Council’s (FNC) New Parliament Building Complex.

Embassy of Czech Republic in USA by Chalupa Architekti
The design of the Embassy of the Czech Republic pays tribute to its unique natural setting, and the building itself is only an adjunct, not the main actor… check the project after the jump

The International Criminal Court by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
After years of accommodation in temporary premises, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, The Netherlands has revealed its design for new permanent headquarters by schmidt hammer lassen architects (SHL).

KieranTimberlake announced as winner of New London Embassy Design Competition
U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis B. Susman, and Acting Director of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Adam Namm, announced today that KieranTimberlake of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has won the design competition for the New London Embassy.
Behind Bars … Sort Of
Go ahead and say it; everyone does. Certainly I did. Here’s a striking building, perched on a slope outside the small Austrian town of Leoben — a sleek structure made of glass, wood and concrete, stately but agile, sure in its rhythms and proportions: each part bears an obvious relationship to the whole. In the daytime, the corridors and rooms are flooded with sunshine. At night, the whole structure glows from within. A markedly well-made building, and what is it? A prison.

The Norwegian Embassy, Kathmandu / Nepal by Kristin Jarmund Architects
The new Norwegian Embassy is built on the existing embassy site in Kathmandu…
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