Porsche Design and Dubai Properties announced that the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been commissioned to design, in co-operation with Porsche Design a high quality office tower and a luxury residential tower in Dubai. Completion is due 2009.
In 2006, Yas Island was a flat landscape of desert and scrubland surrounded by navigable water, east of Abu Dhabi City and close to the main highway past the existing airport. To the north the views stretched out past low lying islands to the open ocean of the Arabian Gulf.
The Schiller National Museum in Marbach am Neckar will be officially reopened in the presence of Federal President Horst Koehler on 10 November 2009, the 250th anniversary of Friedrich Schiller’s birthday, following a restoration by David Chipperfield Architects.
Young group of architects from São Paulo, Brazil that recently received an Honorable Mention on a National Competition for the Paineiras Hotel Complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a project that is due to completion in 2011 and has generated a great interest in Brazilian architecture community.
More than just a project for Sydney, the NSW Government considers Barangaroo a site of State significance and will retain ownership and control to ensure that its renewal is managed for, and on behalf of, the public of New South Wales.
Montenegro Resort Development design by make architects: winner of closed competition to masterplan and design a new luxury resort on Montenegro’s Adriatic coast, beating off competition from Foreign Office Architects, MVRDV and Heatherwick Studio.
Travels in the History of Architecture: ‘[an] extraordinary interpretation of Western architecture…Harbison’s expression of his personal and professional views is unbelievably shattering and breathtaking; he has the capacity to alter the entire history of Western architecture for 100 years to come’.
Scottish Student Awards for Architecture, Winner, Image, Jonathan Mennie, Design Scottish Student Awards for Architecture Something old, something new: Architectural Education Scotland post updated 17 July 2025 Student at Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment Scottish Student Awards for Architecture 9 Nov 2009 Scottish Architecture Student Awards A fourth year student of Robert … Read more
Robert Harbison is no ordinary architectural historian. His command of the apparatus of history is unassailable but he never allows it to mask the true nature of his subject
Belsize Park House. Eldridge Smerin’s projects for Selfridges and Villa Moda possibly led to the design of this house for a director of a fashion company and on to the design of its London headquarters.
Eastcastle Street, with its generous ground floor showrooms and proximity to Oxford Street’s shops, was once the centre of London’s ragtrade. In the last few years the area has undergone a shift in identity with the departure of clothing manufacturers to the Far East, and the arrival of several East End art galleries.
Teleton Tampico wins World’s Best Health Building at World Architecture Festival Awards 2009. Socially responsible centre for disabled children combines colour, nature and therapeutic spaces
Cages for Macaws in the Palm Grove of Barcelona Zoo, Catalonia, designed by Battle & Roig Architects, Spain, has won the World’s Best Display Building award at the prestigious World Architecture Festival Awards (WAF Awards) 2009.
World Architecture Festival Awards Shortlist, WAF 2009 – information on architects & buildings – architectural Prix de Barcelona, Barcelona, prize, WAF Shortlist