In 2008, Yansong Ma of Beijing-based iMAD commissioned ten firms to design the buildings that will form new Huaxi City Centre, near to Guiyang in southern China, on the basis of the master plan elaborated by Shanghai Tongji University. The involved firms are: BIG e Julien De Smedt (Copenhagen), Emergent e Atelier Manferdini (Los Angeles), […]
US-born Anthony Suau won the World Press Photo 2008 with a picture about subprime crisis in the United States. It shows an armed male police officer pointing the gun against a door, to ensure the house is empty: all across the floor there are scattered objects that homeowners left behind, before going away because they […]
The five finalist projects of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2009 are the following: Library, Senior Citizens’ Centre and City Block Core Zone in Sant Antoni’s District, Barcelona, RCR Aranda Pigem Vilalta Architects; Multimodal Centre – Nice Tramway, Atelier Marc Barani; Zenith Music Hall, Strasbourg, Massimiliano Fuksas […]