p+A news

Australia > Information about LAB architecture studio‘s expansion of the Newcastle Region Art Gallery. Opening is scheduled for 2010 [arcspace]....

The new Parrish Art Museum designed by Herzog & de Meuron in Southampton (New York) is scheduled to open in 2009 [NYT]....

Spain > Images and information about construction works for the City of Culture of Galicia, designed by Peter Eisenman, taking place on Mount Gaias in Santiago de Compostela [cidadedacultura.org]....

Rio de Janeiro > The “City of Sex“, designed by the architect Igor de Vetyemy, could be constructed in Rio during the next years. This building was conceived as a center for studies, with shops and entertainment features related to theme [Gazeta do Povo / The Guardian]....

Information about the winners of the RIAI Awards 2006, granted by the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland [Land+Living]....

Five buildings designed by under-40 architects have been nominated for AM NAI Prize 2006, the award granted annually by the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI). The nominees are: CONO Cheese factory in West-Beemster by Bastiaan Jongerius, the “Plussenburgh” in IJsselmonde by Arons & Gelauff, a building on the bridge in Middelburg by BAR, the WORM interiors […]...

JADE is a condominium built in New York by Yoo Ltd … “a design-oriented property development company, founded by Philippe Starck and property developer John Hitchcox’… [MoCo Loco]...

Australia > Situated in a green gully, next to the river in Brisbane’s suburbs, this small house, designed by Bligh Voller Neild Architecture. is intended to take maximum advantage of its privy position and close views over exuberant subtropical vegetation. Brisbane’s House of the Year Award (granted by Royal Australian Institute of Architecture) [Arkinetia]....

Images of the interiors of Zollverein School of Management and Design designed by SANAA (Sejima – Nishizawa) in Essen (Germany) [thomas mayer_archive].source > dezain.net...

Dominique Perrault, father of the French National Library, argues he’s more than an architect. Being inflexible with conforming Europe, he thinks that self-criticism is the only way to evolve [cafebabel.com]....

Images of the already inaugurated Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, designed by Rem Koolhaas + Cecil Balmond [Flickr: 1 / 2]...

Chile > Information about the house designed by Chilean architect Sebastian Irarrazaval into the exclusive condominium Ocho al Cubo [Tell Magazine]....