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The New York Public Library unveiled the first schematic designs of its historic Central Library Plan, which will bring a new lending library to its iconic 42nd Street location, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. A $300 million renovation will…

With the Nippon Chinbotsu manga series which is about the sinking of Japan after a series of earthquakes, the manga-ka (manga or comic artist, cartoonist) Tokihiko Ishiki produced a megaseller that has remained popular until today. The MAK…

In a recent public event at the Pavilion de l'Arsenal in Paris, OMA founding partner Rem Koolhaas and associate/director of French projects Clement Blanchet presented OMA's recent Ecole Centrale competition win and its urban development in Saclay.…

French architecture office, Tétrarc, has designed a camouflage print onto the walls of this social housing dwellings in Saint-Gilles Croix de Vie, a well known Atlantic port. Tetrarc is undertaking a social housing project with Vendée overtones,…

The MMFA launches an architectural competition for the construction of its fifth pavilion that will house the Michal and Renata Hornstein collection among others and will open as part of Montreal’s 375th anniversary. , full_html

Mas Context, a interesting magazine, presents "Production", the sixteenth issue of its quarterly publication.

The contributors to this issue are James Black, Anthony Burrill, Edward Burtynsky, Andrew Clark, Jason Fried, Iker Gil, Jonn…

The central building of DNB’s new bank headquarter cluster developed by Oslo S Utvikling (OSU) is completed. The MVRDV designed main building has 17 unique floors and a surface of 36,500m2. , full_html

Vora Arquitectura has accustomed us to an architecture austere, sometimes dry, but filled with something that reconciles us to the architecture itself, an architecture what arose from need, minimalism or simplicity architectural, programmatic and…

The winning projects of the New Concordia Island Contest have been unveiled this past weekend. The international ideas competition aims to rethink the disaster of the wrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia as exceptional opportunity to imagine the…

The Gold Coast, an importantly Australia’s city, has launched their global design competition to develop it’s new cultural precinct in the 17-hectare Evandale site, in the heart of the city (located on Queensland's Gold Coast). , full_html