Isabelle Lomholt 
The Prefecture of Natal launched a National Competition for the Design of a new Icon and a Christmas Square in Natal (Brazil). ‘Natal’ meaning ‘Christmas’ in Portuguese, the city wants to develop this specific characteristic as a tourism attraction feature.
Rafael Viñoly Architects announces the completion of the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building at the University of California, San Francisco. The facility opened yesterday, June 2, 2009.
The sculpted glazed envelope of the Brompton Crystal residential elements sits above a high-end retail outlet, clad in dark grey bricks.
Placa Reial Barcelona – Catalan Square – public realm in Spain – photos of Plaça Reial, Bacardi Passage, Spanish square
Portoroz is the leading sea-side tourist center in Slovenija, with many hotels, villas and residential areas. The whole territory is a gently rising hillside facing the south and the sea.
PENSON has completed another exciting project, in the form of Wilts & Dorset Poole Bus Station with a gigantic bespoke mural, lighting and general refurbishments.
The exhibition Green Architecture for the Future elucidates the relationship between architecture and society and the vast field mapped out by discussions of sustainability, with its whole range of challenges.
The Stone Company, a natural stone company in Zulte, underwent a true metamorphosis. The renovated display hall cum meeting and office space was decorated austerely and elegantly with the natural stone product as a calling card used in all its facets.
The Stone Towers by Zaha Hadid Architects for Rooya Group of Egypt is located in the Stone Park district of Cairo. Providing office and retail facilities to a rapidly expanding Cairo, the unique 525,000sqm Stone Towers development also includes a five-star business hotel with serviced apartments, retail with food and beverage facilities and sunken landscaped gardens and plaza called the ‘Delta’.
bblur architecture complete new Bus Station for Slough, won in limited competition: first element of Borough Council’s vision for the wider regeneration of the centre, known as ’The Heart of Slough’
One of the largest public libraries in the UK, the £24m building designed by Ryder Architecture, will offer 21st century facilities combined with inspirational places for reading, learning, researching, relaxing, meeting and working.
Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema, a long-established and much-loved institution, reopened its doors in 2008 after a major refurbishment and modernisation project designed by Fletcher Priest Architects.
ARQUITECTUM, a company which organizes architecture competitions, is pleased to welcome architects from all over the world to the “PARIS 2009” International Architecture Competition, to be held from May 2009 to July of the same year.
The project was initially previewed in October 2008 during the Frieze Art Fair in London, and the exciting ‘work in progress’ exhibited there has now become a final design prototype poised for production.
Zaha Hadid Architects exploration and research into systems of growth in the natural world have informed the distinct formal language of the Genesy lamp for Artemide.
Villa Moniuszki is an intimate complex composed of two residential buildings. Both edifices belong to blocks of residential Wrzeszcz – one of the most exposed districts of Gdansk.
Stone Villa design by Schleifer & Milczanowski is located in one of the most exclusive housing estates of Gdynia – Kamienna Góra. This part of town is under surveillance by historical preservation registry