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The Hotel DESEO was designed by Central de Arquitectura (Moises Ison & Jose Antonio Sanchez) in Playa del Carmen (Mexico) >>>

New York: images of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF 2006)MoCo Loco > 1 / 2Inhabitat > 1 / 2

Images, released by the New York Times, showing the construction site of the Olympic Stadium designed by Herzog & de Meuron for 2008 Beijing Games > na/blogRelated news > The China Syndrome [NYT]

Images of the construction site of “Watercube“, the National Swimming Centre designed by Australian firm PTW for Beijing 2008 > skyscrapercity: 1 – 2 / flickr.comMore info > Arup

The Mercedes Benz Museum, designed by architect Ben van Berkel (UN Studio) is going to be inaugurated today in Stuttgart [Deutsche Welle].Images of the building > NA

The monument that Thailand is going to dedicate to the thousands of victims made by the devasting tsunami occurred in Decenber 2004 will be designed by a team of Spanish architects, headed by Ana Somoza and Juana Canet Rosello [el mundo].

Images of the five finalist projects in the Toronto Waterfront competition [towaterfront.ca].

On May 16th 2006, the Jose Vasconcelos Library designed by Alberto Kalach was inaugurated in Mexico City [el universal / el financiero].More info > kalach.comImages of the building > el universal / Video > el universal

Colombia > “La Playa” and “Punta de Piedra“, situated in the city of Medellin, are two apartment buildings designed by the architects Ana Elvira Velez and Juan Bernardo Echeverri >>>

Brazil > Single-family house designed by architect Arthur Casas in Santana de Parnaíba (São Paulo) [ARCOweb].

Images of the exhibition entitled “LESS – Alternative Living Strategies”, taking place in Milan at PAC (the contemporary art pavilion) [designboom].

Views from the construction site of the Zollverein School of Management and Design conceived by Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA) in Essen (Germany) [thomas mayer_archive].source > dezain.net