About 2,700 participants worked on their submissions for the 12th ThyssenKrupp Elevator Architecture Award – in two meetings the jury made their decision.

ECOWEEK 2011 in Athens offers an international conference and interdisciplinary design workshops for young architects, designers, landscape architects and graduate students.

Rammed earth, goat’s-hair rugs and recycled oak wood are just some of the natural construction materials used by the Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR - ‘Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe’) in their new offices in the northern German town of Gülzow. The building – designed by matrix architektur (Rostock, Germany) – is now the subject of a detailed FNR publication.

Ten years ago, Rem Koolhas would have been the last person you would have expected to be heavily involved in the protection of ancient buildings. However, in his exhibition Cronocaos, he is even campaigning for the preservation of buildings from more recent architectural periods. The show made its debut at the architecture exhibition of the 2010 Venice Biennale. Now, the unrenovated rooms of the New Museum, in New York’s Bowery district, are lending the display even more optical flair.

Beyond disasters, through solidarity, towards sustainability – with “DESIGN 2050” as their key concept, architects once again have the opportunity to lead the world forward by creating a new “charter” to embody this commitment.

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The metallic bubble in one of Beijing’s hutong districts is a real eye-catcher. Commissioned by an exclusive wine store, MAD architects expanded on the existing courtyard house with a new construction that includes the bubble. Acting as an enclosure for the stairs to the roof terrace, the bubble’s gleaming surface reflects its surroundings and lends the courtyard a larger feel.

World Architecture Festival is the world's largest, live, truly inclusive and interactive global architectural awards programme. It is a unique meeting point for architects, suppliers and clients, attracting hundreds of entries and visitors from all over the world.

In our anniversary edition »50 Years of DETAIL«, we’d like to talk about the global challenges that are facing modern and future structures. Editor-in-chief Christian Schittich paints the picture of the significance of construction details, Andres Lepik expands the field to include a global discussion: has the star architect burned out? Is it not the unnoticeable projects that will change our world more permanently in the future?

This year's motto of the International Convention of Architecture in Budapest (Hungary) is "Water and Architecture" - matching the so called “EU Danube Region Strategy” by the European Council.

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The world’s second-highest building and its highest television and viewing tower just opened in time for the Asia Games in November 2010 in Guangzhou.

WAF is one of the world’s biggest gatherings of the global architectural community and will take centre stage in Barcelona for the third year running from 3rd to 5th November 2010. The Festival’s exhibition will be based around the theme of ‘Transformations’ and will relate to the way in which the built environment can be transformed by a combination of client commitment, architectural imagination, technological development and professional teamwork.

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With granite boulders to lie down in, glaringly backlit filigree ramps that pass through warm fog banks, concrete girders that float portentously overhead, and lashing water fountains that emerge from darkness lit by a stroboscopic storm, the 12th International Architecture Biennale is experienced primarily on a physical rather than an intellectual plane.

The non-for-profit, San Francisco-based organization Public Architecture has published a remarkable primer on the re-use of materials in architecture. The best news is: The 170-page publication can be downloaded as PDF for free.

Until November 21, the Museum of FInnish Architecture in Helsinki is showing the exhibition „Global Award for Sustainable Architecture“. It features projects from the last 3 editions of the award.

On 16 ‐ 17 October 2010, Barcelona is the latest city to showcase its architecture to the public after becoming part of the hugely successful annual Open House Weekend.The Open House Weekend gives people access to the most innovative, inspiring and engaging examples of a city’s architecture, highlighting the value of good design in creating and sustaining a vibrant city.

From August 19 to October 15, 2010 there can be hand in suggestions for an international, open architecture competition in Fez Medina, Morocco. The key objective for the square and its surroundings is to carefully restore the valuable existing buildings and to adapt modern distinctive architecture into an area that is full of tradition, vibrancy and functionally diverse.

The 12th International Architecture Exhibition, with the title of "People meet in architecture", directed by Kazuyo Sejima and organized by la Biennale di Venezia will be open to the public from Sunday 29th August to Sunday 21st November 2010 in the Giardini, Arsenale and in various locations throughout Venice.

The London Festival of Architecture returns to the capital 19th June – 04th July. Three weekends, 16 days, over 300 events, 250,000 visitors, star names and an unrivalled variety and vibrancy of installations, exhibitions, debates and dialogue will be presented during the UK’s largest celebration of architecture.

Big architecture versus good architecture – is there a contradiction between good and large architectural pieces? Budapest, March 6th, 2010

The transformation of the urban landscape within the last decades has increasingly been dominated by the demands of capitalist utilization. Due to the current crisis, however, which goes far beyond a mere crisis of the real estate and financial market, these neoliberal politics and attendant forms of production of space have been subject to a loss of legitimation.

Prof. Dr. Michael Bauer, Peter Mösle and Dr. Michael Schwarz offer a Green Building guide for principals, architects and planners. The English-language edition of their book entitled “Green Building – Guidebook for Sustainable Architecture” has been published by Springer.

As part of the ‘Green Architecture for the Future’ exhibition (on show until Dec. 18th), the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art invited the Danish architecture firm 3XN to design a pavilion demonstrating cutting edge possibilities with sustainable and intelligent materials. The result is a Moebius strip made of cork and bio-resin that features self-cleaning surfaces, phase changing materials and built-in sensors that generate energy from the footsteps of the visitors.

With this book, Georg W. Reinberg, a pioneer in solar architecture in Austria for the last 30 years, presents a monograph of the works of his studio, but in doing so also a kind of historical narrative of ecological building over that period.

MercuryHouseOne is an advanced concept for a mobile living pod designed by Architecture and Vision and is on exhibition during the 53rd Art Exhibition, Biennale of Venice, on the island of San Servolo. Its shape recalls the beauty and efficiency of a water drop.

Prizes for one of the largest competitions in the field of sustainable architecture are currently being awarded in several countries. Presented every three years, the Holcim Award in 2009 will go to projects from Morocco, Vietnam, China and the US.

First the twin towers of Deutsche Bank, then the Empire State Building in New York, and now Sears Tower in Chicago as well. Energy upgrade plans for well-known skyscrapers all over the world are now being made public. The project for the 442 metre-high office building, the highest in the western world, will no doubt put all previous projects in the shade.

Nicolas Sarkozy is walking in the footsteps of Baron Haussmann: Ten teams of architects and planners were invited by the French president in June 2008 to develop a vision for the future for Paris in the year 2030. One of the plans, which can be seen up to November in the "Cité de l’Architecture"exhibition in Paris, comes from Rotterdam architect's office MVRDV.

Radical Nature draws on ideas that have emerged out of Land Art, environmental activism, experimental architecture and utopianism. Work by pioneering figures such as the architectural collective Ant Farm, visionary arcchitect Richard Buckminster Fuller, and artist Joseph Beuys and Robert Smithson are shown alongside pieces by a younger generation of practitioners.

BEYOND MEDIA 2009. VISIONS
9. International Festival for Architecture and Media
Florence, Italy - July 9-17, 2009
Stazione Leopolda, viale Fratelli Rosselli 5

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The new concept for the official NYC Information Center in Midtown Manhattan by WXY architecture + urban design enables users to create custom guidebooks and itineraries, eliminating the need for print brochures. DETAIL.de shows pictures of the new visitors’ centre.

The new Ars Electronica Center (AEC), Austria’s media art laboratory for digital art and media culture, was opened at the beginning of the year. It stands on the left bank of the Danube like a coarsely pixelated crystal, shimmering in splendid colours at night.

KieranTimberlake (Philadelphia) is known for LEED platinum certified projects as well as experimental structures like the Loblolly House. Thomas Madlener talked to James Timberlake and Richard Maimon about recent developments in sustainable architecture in the US, and how it will evolve in the future.

The exhibition in the moma in New York draws from the rich collection of The Museum of Modern Art to examine the diverse attitudes toward landscape over the last hundred years. April 8, 2009 - September 14, 2009

The Council of the International Union of Architects, meeting in San José (Costa Rica) on 15 – 16 February 2009, adopted the following theme for the 2009 World Day of Architecture: Architects’ Energy versus Global Crises.

Mimicking and blending in with a region’s topography is a trick that most architects are familiar with. The Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) take this art with the Zira Island Masterplan on a very high level.

Today's engineers are working across disciplines and driving innovation. MAKE IT WORK. Engineering Possibilities looks at how engineers are envisioning and realizing the future of our built environment. January 22 — April 25, 2009, Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York - USA

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The DETAIL CREATIVE AWARD within the animago AWARD 2008 took place for the first time in this year. DETAIL is a sponsor of the Special Prize about 5,000 euros for the best submission.

During a three-day event taking place in the Centre Convencions Internacional Barcelona (CCIB) from 22 – 24 October, the Festival will showcase and compare not only a wide range of international architecture but also regional projects.

The New Art Exchange by architects Hawkins\Brown was launched last month in Nottingham. It is the UK’s first regional inner city contemporary visual arts centre devoted solely to the promotion of Black and Asian arts. It includes 1,500 square metres of mixed-use art space with a gallery, workshop, café and rehearsal facilities on four storeys.

In connection with Foster + Partners’ project to remodel and extend the "Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus", the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich is hosting the exhibition „Foster + Partners: Working with history“ 21. October 2008 - 22. February 2009.

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Additional pictures of the four dwellings in Reims by the Belgian architects Marjolijn and Pierre Boudry.

The Victorian Architecture Awards were recently awarded with The "Nigel Peck Centre for Learning & Leadership" in Melbourne by John Wardle Architects winning two prizes: Victorian Architecture Medal and the William Wardell Award for Public architecture.

The Canadian Centre for Architecture CCA in Montréal presents an exhibition on the architectural work of British architect Will Alsop, who designed the iconic building for the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto. More than 50 objects that document the design process are on display from June 13 to October 5, 2008.

The Centre Pompidou in Paris is to stage the first ever large-scale exhibition devoted to the work of French architect Dominique Perrault. Starting on June 11 till September 22, 2008, DPA – Dominique Perrault Architects’ work will be presented through models, photographs, drawings and a film by Richard Copans.

The Museum of Finnish Architecture currently presents several exhibitions related to Finnish architecture. In Helsinki and Paris 25 designs of fresh top Finnish architecture are on display from June to September 2008, while the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. shows the work of Eero Saarinen till August 23.

100 years after the announcement of Adolf Loos`"Ornament and Crime", "Re-Sampling Ornament", an exibition of the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel attemps from 1 June to 21 September 2008 to trace the redux ornament in contemporary architecture.

The Canadian Centre for Architecture, CCA in Montréal presents “Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo” by internationally-renowned architects Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa. The exhibition runs till 26 October 2008 and shows the architects’ new approaches to living in dense urban environments.

Starting on April 16th 2008, the “Maison de la Culture du Japon” in Paris shows ten years of Japanese architecture in an exhibition called: “Architecture Japonaise 1996-2006, Parallel Nippon”. Works by Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban and Toyo Ito among others can be viewed here until June 21st.

Opened in October 2007 the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan is designed through the integration of the arts and technology, and with a mission in obtaining a high-level certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), thus making it one of the first art museums with such recognition.

The World Architecture Festival is one of this year's biggest architectural events, which will take place from 22-24 October in Barcelona. As part of the festival a prestigious architectural award opens for entries on April 15, the deadline being 20 June 2008. Judges include world-renowned architects such as Hadid, Foster, Meier and Jencks.

“The World in One School” is the name of a travelling exhibition held between April 4th - 30th 2008, which gives insight to the history and influence of the Liverpool School of Architecture. The school opened in 1894 as the first architectural university in the UK and produced many illustrious architects since.

On March 19, 2008 an exhibition on the architectural group Team 10 is opening at the Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot in Paris. “Team 10 – Une Utopie du Présent (1953-1981)” focuses on the works of Team 10 and l’Atelier de Montrouge, which are still of importance in today's architecture.

The Spring 2008 Lecture Series at the architectural department of the University of California in Berkeley receives on Friday, March 14, Mr. Steven Holl of Steven Holl Architects, New York.

“The Rock” is a $39 million-project for the new international passenger terminal of Wellington International Airport, that has been designed by Studio Pacific Architecture. What is supposed to become “New Zealand’s newest iconic building”, is trying to create optimum functionality and environmental sustainability at the same time.

The Museum of Finnish Architecture starts on February 27, 2008 an exhibition on the work of famous Finnish architects Raili and Reima Pietilä, who became great advocates of modern architecture throughout the 20th century.

The Goethe-Institut in New York is starting on Thursday, February 7, 2008 a lecture and dialog series focusing on the topic of green architecture. The series will debut with a talk by Berlin-based architect Jürgen Mayer H., followed by a conversation with the series curator and moderator Dr. Andres Lepik.

An exhibition at the New London Architecture, running till February 23, focuses on waterside development in London, it’s aim being the information on and possibilities to rediscover the rivers and canals of the capital.

This week, from 14th to 20th January 2008, Cologne becomes the European centre of interior design and decoration at the annual international furnishing show imm cologne 2008. Approximately 1,300 exhibitors will present their products and concepts at the Cologne Trade Fair and at numerous showrooms in the city.

In its 2007 fall season, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) offers a full line-up of original exhibitions accompanied by related film and lecture series, a late-night multimedia event in conjunction with Journées de la culture, scholarly lectures, popular architecture-themed family activities, and ongoing guided tours of the exhibitions and building.