Plans to redevelop Liberty Hall, a much-detested high-rise building in Dublin have been rejected by An Bord Pleanála, the planning board. Read More Block by block the past two decades have seen Berlin unmistakably transformed into the new capital of Germany with a series of impressive and high quality public and commercial buildings. This trend looks set to continue with the proposals for a new tower to stand next to the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche which was badly damaged in world war two and remains in a semi-ruined state today as a memorial. Read More To the untrained eye it may look like Battlestar Galatica has landed in the French city of Lyon, but this exists in reality, not science-fiction, as a spanking new museum - Musee de Confluences. Read More Just over thirty years ago one of the seminal events in Cold War history happened in Poland - the Solidarity strikes. As the first non-communist trade union in Poland it recruited almost a third of the working population of the country, and despite many deaths had a lasting impact on the country. Read More The Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation may have a slightly Zoolander-esque ring to it, but there's nothing fictional about the new art centre that is taking shape in central Paris. Read More Having beat off stiff competition from SANAA, W-Architectures and French architects FLINT it has been announced that architectural firm Big, in conjunction with FREAKS Freearchitects have won yet another competition, this time to design a new cultural centre for the French city of Bordeaux. Read More |