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Koolhaas

Q-Bert Will Love Rem Koolhaas' New City Hall in Rotterdam

The starchitect trumps the competition and wins a high-profile in his hometown.READ»

DutchDesign

Dutch Design Masters, in Their Own Words

A delicious video archive for anyone interested in Dutch design, featuring studio visits with Philips, MVRDV, and 15 others.READ»

RichardRogers

Richard Rogers Bags Britain's Highest Architectural Prize

Rogers's practice wins the 2009 Stirling Prize, for a cancer center designed to put patients at ease.READ»

Chapel

The 11th Commandment: Sustainability, for a House of God

Students from the Illinois Institute of Technology complete a deceptively simple chapel, using cutting edge sustainable techniques.READ»

CoatCheck

All Coat-Checks Should be This Cool

Wieki Somers has just won the 2009 Dutch Design Golden Lion, for turning a museum coat check into a full-fledged art installation.READ»

Artic Station

Calatrava's New Train Station and 8 More High-Speed Rail Hubs on the Horizon

Santiago Calatrava's stunning Liège-Guillemins TGV station opened last month in Belgium. As energy and oil uncertainty and high carbon emissions make train travel more appealing, high-speed railways are being planned from Southern California to Saudi Arabia. Here are eight more high-speed rail stations coming soon.READ»

SpiralOffice

If You Like NYC's Guggenheim, You'll Love the "Cocoon" Office

Swiss Life's brand-new headquarters is one huge spiral ramp, which can be reconfigured into offices or meeting spaces as the business changes over time.READ»

CancerCenter

A Hospital Design That Helps Heal

Architecture obviously can't cure patients--but it's naive to think that good design can't at least aid in well-being. And well-being, surely, is the start point in restoring anyone's health. That simple insight helped NORD ...READ»

bergen silver collection

Exhibition Design Questions Our Love of the Precious Objects It Displays

There's a whiff of social satire in Kristin Jarmund Architects' design for Norway's Bergen Silver Collection.READ»

UglyBuilding

Hideous Chic: The World's Ugliest Buildings

Travel & Leisure finds 15 of the ugliest buildings in the world. What on earth were these architects thinking?READ»

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