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On Wednesday 21th February, 2007, Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron received the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Gold Medal in London (RIBA) [swissinfo].

Images of the recently inaugurated Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid), designed by Neutelings Riedijk Architects in Hilversum [Eikongraphia]. More images > Iwan Baan / neutelings-riedijk.com source > Archinect

The 7 finalist works of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award 2007 are the following: School for Management (Lacaton & Vassal Architectes), National Choreographic Centre (Rudy Ricciotti), Phaeno Science Centre (Zaha Hadid), Mercedes-Benz Museum (UNStudio), Sines Art Centre (Aires Mateus e Associados), 2007 America's Cup Pavilion (Edificio Veles e […]

"The Salamander" (DE SALAMANDER) is an apartment building designed by Netherlands-based firm LOOS ARCHITECTS in Zaandam >>>

Spain > The OS House, designed by the firm Nolaster in Loredo (Cantabria), is an experimental architecture, developed according to an unusually complex scheme, to meet a very wide range of requirements. Number of the inhabitants varies from only two to about thirty, including all the possible intermediate combinations, just like, for example, a couple […]

One year ago we published information about the Grand Canyon Skywalk, a U-shaped skybridge, designed by MRJ Architects to provide panoramic view, as a balcony over the Grand Canyon of Colorado. It's time to update about construction [archidose].

The Ice Hotel exists not only in Sweden: there is also the Ice Hotel Quebec – Canada …[Josh Spear] source > MoCo Loco

Australia > Corb V2.0… an apartment building conceived by Andrew Maynard. The position of each dwelling can be changed at any moment… [Arkinetia]

Images of the building designed by Rena Dumas for Maison Hermes in Seoul [Domusweb].

China > Sixteen world wide architects, put togheter by designer and curator Ai Wei Wei, conceived the Jinhua Architecture Park, on the banks of Yiwu river, as a miniature town made up of pavilions. Images > Flickr source > dezain.net

International Competition for Stockholm City Library – first phase: information about the six finalist proposals [Archrecord].

Perù > With this house situated in Playa La Isla (district of Asia), the architect Juan Carlos Doblado expected to make clear the connection between an isolated building and its surroundings, to absolutely prove the relationship between man and nature, desert and sea…[arquimaster] source > arkinetia blog