Iwan Baan is one of today’s leading photographers of architecture and the built environment. His images document the growth of global megacities, explore traditional and informal housing structures, and portray buildings by prominent contemporary architects including Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, Kazuyo Sejima, and Tatiana Bilbao. From October 2023 to March 2024, the Vitra Design Museum presents the first major retrospective of Baan’s oeuvre. The exhibition »Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture« reflects the photographer’s wide scope by drawing

“A better and more beautiful world must focus on the challenges of environment and equality. Architectural achievement independent of these concerns will have less meaning, which I believe will affect our very sense of what we will judge to be beautiful,” remarks the 52nd Laureate during the May 24th ceremony. “We must become increasingly committed to the idea that architecture has purpose, and that the architectural community can play a bigger role in the way

The International Competition in Composing a Project for the State Ukrainian Theatre Mass Musical Stage with a 4000 seat capacity in Kharkiv – this pretty long title inspired a record number of participants from all over the world. The results were summed up in the spring of 1931. 144 projects were submitted, 99 of them were from 11 foreign countries, including the United States and Japan. Most of the projects came from Germany.

The following is sent on behalf of the Magnus Olsson Memorial Foundation. Simon Fisher has been named the 10th recipient of the Magnus ‘Mange’ Olsson Prize, awarded annually to an individual who has made an impactful contribution to the sport of sailing. Certainly this description fits Simon Fisher, known to all as SiFi, like a well-worn sailing glove. SiFi has competed in The Ocean Race six consecutive times, beginning in 2005-06, and has won the race twice, including the last edition with 11th Hour

The 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia has opened. Earlier this spring, it was announced that White Arkitekter has been invited by this year's curator Lesley Lokko to exhibit in the main Exhibition The Laboratory of the Future. White Arkitekter’s contribution to the exhibition raises the question of whether it is possible to find a balance between the forest as a resource and the urgent need to preserve and rebuild fragile ecosystems.

VO65 crews are racing south from Norway turning mark towards a Sunday arrival in The Hague. The last time The Ocean Race was in Kiel, was on 9 June, 2002, and the German team, illbruck, was being celebrated for winning the Volvo Ocean Race. In the crowd was a young German sailor beginning his career - Boris Herrmann - and the event made a lasting

The leading trio are setting a blistering pace into the final 48 hours of leg 5. 26 May 2023, Leg 5, Day 5 onboard Team Malizia. The crew celebrates that Team Malizia broke the 24h speed record challenge sponsored by Ulysse Nardin at 641.13 nm.. Records are being set and then broken again on leg 5 of The Ocean Race. First it was 11th Hour Racing Team, powering to a new standard, only to