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In 2007 Norman Foster presented a redesign for the FC Barcelona stadium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the football club. The proposal although impressive had its critics. Catalan architect Emili Vidal presented a counter proposal aiming to resolve the critical aspects of based on a 150,000 capacity built on a man-made island off the coast of Barcelona. More here
The Adventures of Tintin was an internationally successful comic created in the late 1920s by Hergé, the pseudonym of Belgian artist Georges Remi. In 2009 a museum in Brussels designed by Christian de Portzamparc was dedicated to the artist and his works
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Greeen! Architects has recently won a competition for the design of a library and student centre for the University Duisburg-Essen. The building‘s vivid, albeit familiar, design aims to be a landmark for the differing from the existing surroundings.
Designed by architect Kiyonobu Nakagame this zigzag family house sits on a narrow lot in Kasumi, Japan. The shape of the building creates an elongated continuous interior space with views to the adjacent park throughout via two huge openings whilst providing parking and a visual separation from the neighbouring property. 
Treptow Crematorium by Axel Schultes & Charlotte Frank with its forest of concrete columns piercing the slab, symbolically leading the ashes of the departed to the white light above
The restrained modernism of the crematorium in Heimolen by architects Claus en Kaan
Igualada Cemetery Park in Barcelona, Spain by Carme Pinos and the late Enric Miralles. This is a poetic exploration that transforms the surrounding landscape in a series of descending streets Sou Fujimoto Interview / Sou Fujimoto Architects / Part 1 from 0300TV on Vimeo.
Sou Fujimoto Interview / Sou Fujimoto Architects / Part 2 from 0300TV on Vimeo.
A proposal by Dutch architects UNStudio for a theatre in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands. Composed of two main theatre spaces placed end to end to minimise patron movement throughout the space and receive the flow directly from the foyer and the public square.
An unexpected six entrants were chosen as winners for the Rising Tides Competition - that sought to conceptualise ways of adapting to the dramatic increases in sea level expected around the San Francisco Bay area. The twist by announcing multiple winners for the competition illustrated just how many different promising solutions were offered. “San Francisco Bay is not the place for a single idea. Taken as a whole, the six winning entries begin to tell a story about adaptation to sea level rise.” said juror Walter Hood
The house is situated on the edge of a stream. It was conceived as a combination of a contemporary box and a pitched roof structure forked to accommodate a fan shaped swimming pool in between. The house is devised as a series of spaces to create a narrative of tactility. Large openings blur the edge of the inside with the outside allowing the outdoors to integrate with the indoors.
Seoul is undergoing an Olympic-sized design makeover in preparation for their 2010 World Design Capital status, led by chief industrial designer Chung Kyung-won. More
The State Ministry of Tourism of the Dominican Republic is launching an international competition for the redesign of Puerto Plata as a tourist destination. The project aims to introduce urban solutions that encourage social and cultural activities, and to serve as a catalyst for integrated and sustainable tourism. 
given the chance, how would you re-conceptualize the suburbs??
Introducing PREFAB 20*20: Visions For 400 Square Foot Homes, an International Open Ideas Competition. Open to all designers, architects, engineers, artists and students around the world, PREFAB 20*20 challenges you to propose a free-standing, prefab dwelling unit for a footprint no more than 400sf (37.5sm) in an urban setting anywhere in the world. Fit for two adults, its basic program shall include sleeping, bathing, cooking, living, working/studying, and storage areas.And who said Prefab is dead? I guess they didn't get the memo
Irish architecture firm O’Donnell & Tuomey has won the RIBA-organized design contest for a new $35.6 million student center at the London School of Economics.
This copper clad weekend home on Mercer Island, Washington by architects Hutchison + Maul makes use of the stunning view with the sight lines it creates perched high above the water's edge like a telescope balancing on staggered pilotis.
