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Informations about Dutch Embassy in Addis Abeba (Ethiopia), designed by de architectengroep / Dick van Gameren and Bjarne Mastenbroek [Archined]

Zaha Hadid’s project, winner of the competition to redesign Eleftheria Square in Nicosia (Cyprus) [archinect]. Images > baunetz.de Informations about the three prizewinning designs> nicosia.org.cy

Images of Spanish Pavilion designed by Alejandro Zaera-Polo for Aichi Expo 2005 (in Japan) [VIEW].

The competition for a scientific base in Antarctica started one year ago. New base of British Antarctic Survey (BAS) will be built by a consortium of engineers and architects from UK. The futuristic 35 milion US dollar estimated project by Faber Maunsell and Hugh Broughton Architects won the competition for the research station Halley VI. […]

There are nineteen architecture and design firms from different parts of the world behind ‘Puerta de América‘, the five stars hotel that has just opened. From Jean Nouvel to Zaha Hadid, from Arata Isozaki to Javier Mariscal, the variety consequently turn it in a museum. Images of that work > el mundo

UNESCO announced another five works of Antoni Gaudi were inscribed on World Heritage List: Nativity façade, Crypt of the Sagrada Familia Cathedral, Casa Vicens, Casa Batlló and Crypt in Colonia Güell [el mundo].

1. Arata Isozaki unveils the project for “Bahns d´Arties”, a spa in the Aran Valley [el confidencial]. 2. First phase of “Isozaki Atea” (Isozaki Atea I / Isozaki Atea II), the main design of luxury apartments in Bilbao – an unusual Isozaki work – is now completed [notiweb]. Images of the construction site> skyscrapercity.com Plans […]

The Sydney Opera House, designed by Danish architect Jon Utzon and inaugurated in 1973, was declared a National Heritage Building by Australian government, hoping to achieve that it would be declared Humanity’s Heritage by UNESCO [el mundo].

Images and information about Mortensurd church, designed in Norway by Jensen & Skodvin [archidose].

Chile > The T2M­arquitectos team designed two houses, joined by a common level, that is floor of one and roof of the other, in the Rosario Norte development at Tunquen. Although their functioning is independent, formally they compose a single volume [el mercurio].

Images of BMW Central Building (administrative center) designed in Leipzig by Zaha Hadid [Ronet].

Although it was Paris the favourite one, after the recount, London was selected to organize the 2012 Olympic Games, overcoming, besides the French capital, Madrid, New York and Moscow [BBC / el mundo / CNN].