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London 2012: rendered animation of the Aquatics Centre designed by Zaha Hadid > na/blogMore info about 2012 Games > olympic.org...

The result of the international competition for the new headquarters of O.I.C. (Organization of Islamic Conference) was unveiled in the middle of May 2006. The first prize went to joint winners Bramberger Architects + Atelier Thomas Pucher (Austria) and Burckhardt & partner (Switzerland) [Edilportale.com].More info > thomaspucher.com / burckhardtpartner.ch / oic-oci.org...

Switzerland > “Seewurfel” is a complex of apartment and office buildings designed by the architecture firm Camenzid Evolution in Zurich [archidose]....

On the occasion of the centennial of Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) we can review a slow and craftman-like trajectory, with echoes of Wright. Scarpa greatly influenced conservation and museology in the 20th century. Canova plaster cast gallery (Gipsoteca Canoviana) and restoration of the garden of Querini Stampalia Foundation in Venice are his most significants […]...

Italy > Opening of the new Piaggio Museum designed by Massimiliano Fuksas is scheduled for 2007 [arkitera / 2strokebuzz].source > Archinect...

New York > “Beatfuse!“, the installation designed by Obra Architects (Pablo Castro + Jennifer Lee), winner of 7th Young Architects Program, is on display into one of the courtyards of PS1 – the Contemporary Art Center that organizes the competition in partnership with MoMA. Every summer several events take place at PS1 (Queens), bringing together […]...

New design for the WTC Memorial [NYT / Archrecord / Archidose]. New York State Governor and City Mayor approved a plan that reduces the budget for the memorial dedicated to victims of 9/11/2001 attacks, to be built in the place where Twin Towers once stood [BBC]...

More images of construction of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Rem Koolhaas + Cecil Balmond [Flickr]....

Google’s new offices designed by Clive Wilkinson in the Silicon Valley [Metropolis Magazine].source > dezain.net...

Images of the Guthrie Theater designed by Jean Nouvel in Minneapolis (USA). Opening is scheduled for June 25, 2006 [guthrietheater.org].More > Flickr: 1 / 2...

French President Jacques Chirac inaugurated in Paris the most important cultural project of his mandate, the Museum of Arts and Civilizations on Quai Branly. The building, designed by architect Jean Nouvel with 25 of his partners, is dedicated to art from Africa, Asia, Oceania and from the Americas: all the handiworks which usually has no […]...

Images of “De Rotterdam”, the tower designed by Rem Koolhaas (OMA): the 139 meter high building will comprise 260 apartments, 39.000 square meters of office area, 850 square meters of commercial area and a 250 room hotel. Construction works, scheduled to start in 2007, will end in 2009 [SkyscraperCity / Skylinecity.info].source > dezain.net...