Slovenian architects Enota shared with us “Lotus Towers”, a 64,100 m2 housing project in Ljubljana, for which they received second prize in an invited competition. More images and architect’s description after the break.

Back in May we told you about the interesting group shortlisted for The Victoria & Albert museum’s first base outside London:

Delugan Meissl Associated Architects / Kengo Kuma & Associates / REX / Snøhetta / Steven Holl Architects / Sutherland Hussey Architects

The six designs have finally been unveiled and will be presented on an exhibition at the library of Abertay University on Bell Street in Dundee, from 29 September to 4 November.

See the proposals after the break.

Architect Marcelo Ertorteguy shared with us his project “The Stone”, for which he received first prize in the Art in Architecture Competition. The competition’s intent was to generate ideas about the relationship and interaction between the two. The thematic goal was to seek images about architecture as a repository for art, revealing how art is expressed in architecture, and how art and architecture affect and are affected by each other. In focusing on the capacity of art and architecture to be transcendent, the competition’s resulting exhibit adds special voice to the current debate between the “container” and the “contents” that has been taking place across the global art scene.

See more images and architect’s description after the break.

A gallery by Foster + Partners, a theater in Portugal, a temple in India, a museum in the Republic of Korea, and Thomas Phifer’s Millbrook House. Great projects you may have missed last week. Check them all after the break.

Sperone Westwater Gallery / Foster + Partners Nearly 35 years after its conception, Sperone Westwater continues to exhibit the work of prominent artists of diverse nationality and age, who work in various media. The concept for the Gallery is both a response to the dynamic urban character of New York’s Bowery and a desire to rethink the way in which the public engages with art in the setting of a gallery (read more…)

This talk gives the opportunity to a group of younger architects – those just published for the first time – to talk about their work and about the process of publishing. The event will serve the dual purpose of giving the audience an opportunity to learn about the careers of a select group of architects whose practices are about ten years old AND to act as a guide to publishing for the first time.

In physics the term ‘plasma’ describes a particular state of matter in which energy is readily conducted through a material. Folding space into space, Plasma Studio draw landscapes into buildings, streets into facades, inside to outside.

In line with this, the Ministry of Science and Technological Development initiated the creation of the new Centre for the Promotion of Science with the intention of bridging the gap between scientists and society as a whole, educating the younger generation and transmitting the scientific methods that affect building of a dynamic civil society open to the challenges of the future, and playing a key role in the better quality of life solutions and the affirmation of a knowledge-based economy in society as a whole.

Canadian architects Ja StudioInc in collaboration with Tadj –Farzin studio shared with us their proposal for the Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Center International Competition. More images and architect’s description after the break.

Italian architects studioUAP shared with us their renovation of Don Cadmo Biavati Park in Via Delle Palme, Rome. The project site is an abandoned public garden in the dense Centocelle neighbourhood in Rome with scarce green areas. The garden is close to many facilities like several schools, an elderly centre and the CSOA of Fort Prenestino. See more images and information after the break.

Winners for the Leading Edge Student Design Competition were announced recently. There were two challenges for the competition, and for the second one there wasn’t a first place awarded. You can see the winners after the break. For more images and merit citations go to the competition’s official website.

Six architectural designers want to make the visitor aware of the space in which they live, their living room. Just try and take a different look at your environment, is what they ask. Does the TV have to be on the cupboard in the corner? Don’t people tend to take their living environment in a too obvious way?

The creators of the exhibition are searching for a challenge. They are not afraid to criticize the traditional way of dealing with the division and disposition of spaces. By mixing time, context and perspective in an unusual way with a traditional interior, a world of experiences exists in which the visitor is set down to different questions.

Who determines where to sit? Is it the position of the chair, or the space around the chair? More images after the break. More information on the exhibition’s official website.

Looking for a great place to eat this weekend? Maybe this five projects will help you choose. Check them all after the break.

BanQ / Office dA Located in the old Penny Savings Bank, Banq is a restaurant located at the base of the old banking hall. Divided into two segments, the front area on Washington Street is programmed as a bar, while the larger hall behind serves as the dining area. The design of the space, however, is conceptualized around another division, on the z axis, between the ceiling and the ground (read more…)

Now in its 15th year, the RIBA Stirling Prize is awarded to the architects of the best new European building ‘built or designed in Britain’. The winner will be announced at the RIBA Stirling Prize Dinner on 2 October, and broadcast live on BBC Two’s The Culture Show at 6.30pm, presented by Kevin McCloud.

Complete shortlist after the break.

Andrei Lucian Rusu shared with us his proposal for the AIM International Competition in Beijing, China. More images and architect’s description.

Slovenia-based Enota shared with us their project Velenje Sports Park, for which they received first prize in an open competition. More images and architect’s description after the break.

UTS have recently unveiled a major adaptive refit proposal by DRAW for their largest and most important ceremonial space, the Great Hall. DRAW’s proposal for the spaces provides UTS with a new ceremonial heart, fundamentally transforming the existing mute Great Hall interior into a cathedral-like space, enveloped by a perforated metal skin that incorporates leading-edge audio/visual technology. More images and complete architect’s description after the break.

The benefits of building information modeling (BIM) tools yield the greatest advantage when used across an integrated project team. According to many BIM proponents, the rewards multiply when the technology is deployed along with a delivery method that fosters a collaborative environment and ensures early involvement of key stakeholders. Design and construction team members working on a 289-bed hospital complex on the Mission Bay campus of the University of California, San Francisco, are relying on such a process. Although the approximately $1.5 billion project will not be complete until 2014, they are already realizing benefits.

The Anglo-German practice Sauerbruch Hutton was declared the winner of the M9 International Architectural Competition at M9 / A New Museum for a New City, an exhibition on the competition designs arranged in the premises of the future cultural pole in Mestre. Six firms participated in the competition: Agence Pierre-Louis Faloci, Carmassi Studio di Architettura, David Chipperfield Architects, Mansilla+Tuñón Arquitectos, Sauerbruch Hutton and Souto Moura Arquitectos.