Each year the Bakema Foundation awards a fellowship for research that ‘can offer a new perspective on the design, use and perception of the built environment’. On 15 December...

How do you see yourself? How do you want others to see you? And how do others see you? In a packed Barbican Theatre Chris Dercon interviewed six of the seven OMA partners...

Reconstructing a building with new materials is at odds with one of the most important principles of modern western building conservation, namely the preservation of a...

The chairman of the jury, Yung Ho Chang announced the winners during the Award ceremony in New York in a packed Guggenheim with more than 450 guest on June 9th 2011.

This spring various generations of architects from all over the world met one another in Selinunte, Sicily. Among them were budding talents who have just completed their...

The very first pictures of the earth taken from outer space changed the way I look and think forever. The earth is our spacecraft, our mother, and home to all of us....

How responsible is architecture for the wave of violence that afflicts our western cities, with Paris in 2005 as the most recent example? Wouter Vanstiphout discussed this...

It was no coincidence that Essam Sharaf, the new prime minister of Egypt, chose Tahrir Square as the venue for his very first speech to the people. During the demonstrations...

The ten projects that Marijn Schenk of NEXT Architects raced through during his lecture at the Groningen Academy of Architecture covered the various areas in which the office...

There is a lot of unoccupied office space, and in Rotterdam they want to attract more residents into the city. So what could be more logical than converting empty offices...