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The European Prize for Urban Public Space 2024 Reveals 10 Finalists

Maria-Cristina Florian — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:30:00 +0000

The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) has announced the finalists for the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2024. Selected from a total of 297 projects corresponding to 35 European countries, the 2024 edition nominates 5 finalists in the General category, promoting quality public spaces throughout the European territory, and 5 in the Seafronts category, addressing coastal cities' climate vulnerabilities. The European Prize for Urban Public Space is an honorary biennial competition aiming to highlight best practices and innovations in the creation, transformation, and recovery of public spaces in European cities.

Parliaments of the World: Designing the Architecture of Government

Eric Baldwin — Thu, 12 May 2022 07:30:00 +0000

The architecture of governments has long been tied to shared ideals. Built to reflect regional aspirations and communal organizations, parliaments are a unique type of design for legislative bodies. Generally speaking, they include various kinds of deliberative, consultative, and judicial assemblies. Exploring new ideas on the design of government buildings, parliaments are being reimagined to reflect contemporary life.

Architecture of the Afterlife: Crypts, Tombs and Mausoleums

Eric Baldwin — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 04:00:00 +0000

Mortality defines both architecture and human experience. Throughout time, funerary structures have been designed across societies and civilizations to ground personal and shared beliefs. The idea of the afterlife shapes how these buildings are made, from symbolic monuments to vast tombs and crypts. Now a new range of modern architecture has been designed for remembrance and reflection.

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT Wins Competition to Design Metro Station in Paris

Karissa Rosenfield — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue (EMBT) and Bordas+Peiro have been announced as winner among five proposals of a two-stage competition to design the future Clichy - Montfermeil metro station in Paris. The competition, organized by the Société du Grand París, is part of the ambitious Grand Paris Express project which seeks to modernize the existing transport network and create an automatic metro that will connect new neighborhoods to the city.

Benedetta Tagliabue to Recieve 2013 RIBA Jencks Award

Karissa Rosenfield — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced Italian architect Benedetta Tagliabue as the 2013 recipient of the annual RIBA Jencks Award for her contributions internationally to both the theory and practice of architecture.

Ceramica Cumella: Shaping Ideas

Daniel Portilla — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:30:54 +0000

From September 29th to December 8th, the exhibition dedicated to the work of Toni Cumella will be open. His works in ceramic have been utilised by architects such as Enric Miralles, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, or Jean Nouvel. These collaborations made his material became part of the image of Barcelona, being part of the construction of La Sagrada Familia, and the restoration of Casa Batlló and Parc Güell.

International Competition for the New Campus of Fudan University School of Management / Miralles Tagliabue (EMBT)

Christopher Henry — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:00:50 +0000

Miralles Tagliabue (EMBT) was recently awarded first prize in the International Competition for the New Campus of Fudan University School of Management in Shanghai, China. Fudan is part of a network of universities and their respective buildings located in Shanghai, Fudan is also a very special and unique university with an extensive history and a very unique character. Besides the main campus, there are two new components. These components are not closely located, they are separate pieces, so in order to establish the connection the buildings must convey the identity of Fudan and contemporary life.