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Architecture
This year the highly renowned award—bestowed “for outstanding achievements in the field of architecture and the arts that conform to Frederick Kiesler’s experimental, innovative conceptions and his theory of correlated arts”—will be presented by the Vienna City Councillor for Cultural Affairs, Andreas […]
The Sainsbury Laboratory, a major new plant science research centre in Cambridge by architects Stanton Williams, has won the coveted RIBA Stirling Prize 2012 for the best building of the year. Sainsbury Laboratory. ©Hufton+Crow. Now in its 17th year, the RIBA Stirling […]
Guggenheim Bilbao opens Inhabited Architecture a new exhibition of works from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao collection that engages in a reflection on the concept of architecture and its ability to suggest a past or present created by us and our relationships with […]
On view in the Central Pavilion of the Giardini through November 25, 2012 This year’s Venice Architecture Biennale includes a major project developed by architect and Yale School of Architecture Professor Peter Eisenman. Titled The Piranesi Variations, this multipart endeavor focuses on […]
Organized by Shenzhen and Hong Kong, the Urbanism Architecture Bi-City Biennale (UABB) promotional event will be held right after the opening events of the Hong Kong Exhibition at the 13th Venice International Architecture Biennale (Venice, Italy, August 27th, 2012). Organizer committees from […]
Lisbon Ground is the exhibition that will represent Portugal at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Open 29 August–25 November 2012 . It is a project conceived and developed by the architect Inês Lobo as designated curator by […]
Neutra VDL Research House in Los Angeles presents Architectones, an installation by artist Xavier Veilhan, on view August 9 – September 16, 2012. Veilhan has created a new body of work specifically for the Modernist house Richard Neutra designed for his family […]
The J. Paul Leonard Library and Sutro* Library at San Francisco State University received an Honor Award in the Rehabilitation / Renovation / Restoration category from the Design Build Institute of America (DBIA) in their annual national Design-Build Award Competition. Balfour Beatty […]
Close, Closer, the third edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale examines the political, technological, emotional, institutional, and critical forms of global spatial practice. By questioning the terminology, inspirations, and inventions of other disciplines and their influences in an open forum, we draw […]
The Exhibition, open 29th August > 25th November 2012, will be complemented by 55 National Participations organized, as usual, in the Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the city of Venice. Four nations will be participating for the first […]
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the twelve buildings which will receive RIBA International Awards for architectural excellence on Thursday 21 June 2012. Sperone Westwater, Bowery, New York City – Foster + Partners From Foster + Partners’ high-density urban […]
Award-winning architecture practice Sheppard Robson has awarded two £500 prizes, for the Best Part 2 student project and Best Part 1 Project, to students at Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh School of Architecture end of year show. The firm’s £1000 sponsorship of […]
Martin-Gropius-Bau presents Building the Revolution Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935, an exhibition on view 5 April to 9 July 2012. The Exhibition “Architects of Revolution” sheds light on an area of the Soviet avant-garde that has remained relatively unknown in Europe and […]