p+A news

NL Architects was the winner of public consultation the city of Groningen (Holland, The Netherlands) called for to choose Groninger Forum's plan [anArchitecture].

Rodinny House (Czech Republic) > Most of the clients of ARCHTEAM's particular houses have small budget, for a humble or prefab building. Usually, when designing a house, they haven't got enough money for extensive plans. However, even though funding is normally an important determining factor, those economic limitations doesn't restrict architecture… [Arkinetia]

Germany > Video of the 'Ideal House' installation designed by Naoto Fukasawa and displayed at the IMM furniture fair in Cologne [vernissage.tv].

Information about the Theatre and Performing Arts Centre, designed by Rafael Viñoly, now under construction in Leicester (Great Britain) > leicesterpac.co.uk

Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Tadao Ando and Zaha Hadid will be present on the Saadiyat Island ( Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) through their respective buildings: Gehry's new Guggenheim Museum, Hadid's Performing Arts Centre , Nouvel's Classical Arts Museum and Maritime Museum by Ando [dezeen].

Egypt > One of the most important buildings in Serrenia, a 3-million-square-meter holiday resort that is including more than 700 residences, luxury villas, golf courses and so on, will be the 200-room hotel designed by Foster + Partners and nicknamed "big worm", because it's going to be 300 meters long [arkinetia blog / edgargonzalez.com].

The exhibition entitled "Oscar Niemeyer 10/100" displays the most relevant designs conceived by the renown architect during the last decade, thus starting Niemeyer 's centennial celebrations. The exposure is taking place at the Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro until April 29 [G1.com.br]. Images > 1 / 2

House in Shinyokohama (Japan), designed by Manabu Naya + Arata Naya, video > 10+1 source > dezain.net

Some images of construction sites of the venues for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: Herzog & De Meuron's Olympic Stadium and the "Watercube" (National Swimming Centre), designed by Australian firm PTW, stand out among the others [skyscrapercity.com].

New York based Asymptote Architecture won the international competition to design Millennium Tower World Business Center (WBCB) in Busan (Korea). Once built, that 560-meter high skyscraper will become the tallest in Asia [worldarchitecturenews.com]. source > move your mind

Beijing > Images of construction site of CCTV (China Central Television) Headquarters and TVCC (Television Cultural Center), both designed by OMA (Rem Koolhaas + Ole Scheeren) > skyscrapercity.com: 1 / 2 – Video > na/blog

Images of construction site of the National Museum for the XXI Century Arts – MAXXI designed by Zaha Hadid in Rome [dezeen].