p+A news

Sweden: the summer house designed by Swedish architecture firm Tham & Videgård is situated in the area of Stockholm archipelago [David Report]. source > MoCo Loco

Germany: new buildings designed by MGF Architekten for Aalen University of Applied Sciences [Plataforma Arquitectura].

US: the new facility designed by Renzo Piano for California Academy of Sciences is under construction in San Francisco. One of its most important features is the wavy green roof, which is going to generate not only benefits related to its sustainability, but also views from the interior rooms, connecting exhibition spaces with the external. […]

England: the 6 finalists for 2007 Stirling Prize, awarded by RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), were announced. The winner will be unveiled on the next 6th of October [BBC].

Construction images of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007, designed by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen (Snøhetta) [0lll.com].

Japan > The Tama Art University new Library, designed by Toyo Ito, images > Flickr source > dezain.net

Canada: a "modern" prefab house, designed by Kohn Shnier Architects, in Muskoka, Ontario [TreeHugger]. Construction images > RoyalHomesModern

Torre Bicentenario, designed by OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture, is going to rise in downtown Mexico City. It will become the tallest building of Latin America, when inaugurated in 2012, the year of the 200th anniversary of Mexican Independence [OMA].

Images from the exhibition "Zaha Hadid – Architecture and Design" at the Design Museum in London [Flickr]. source > dezain.net

"House D" – Velenje, Slovenia – SADAR VUGA ARHITEKTI >>>

New York: "Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture 1922-32" at the MoMA until October 29, 2007… [NYT] Images > NYT

An interview with Jean Nouvel (April/07) > designboom