Katsuya Fukushima and Hiroko Tominaga of FT Architects have completed a residence called ‘Column and Slab’ in Tokyo, Japan.

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Regardless of how low the economy goes in the next two years, the new $35-million Salvador Dali Museum will be built and open in early 2011, museum director Hank Hine said Thursday.

Hine and museum trustee David Dyer were unequivocal about staying the course set by the trustees two months ago when they voted to begin building a new home for the Spanish surrealist’s work on the downtown waterfront near the Mahaffey Theater.

Groundbreaking is set for Dec. 12.

‘We will raise the money,’ said Dyer. ‘We would rather not borrow it, but we will if we must.’

The winners of the RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards were announced at a ceremony in London yesterday.

The President’s Medals are awarded annually to graduating students nominated by Schools of Architecture worldwide.

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Architect Daniel Libeskind, known for his dynamic, fractured compositions, is also recognized for introducing a new critical discourse to architecture.

His latest work is a 54-story condo building in the heart of New York. The spectacular building is studded with hanging green gardens which freshen up the city’s skyline.

”Puma city’, designed by LOT-EK (Ada Tolla + Giuseppe Lignano), is composed by 24 containers, through which a 12-meters wide space is constructed on three levels: two destined to the brand goods sale and a third conceived to house the bar, concerts and other events…

The building uses 40-foot long shipping containers as well as a number of the existing container connectors to join and secure containers both horizontally and vertically. Each module is designed to ship as conventional cargo container through a system of structural covering panels that fully seals all of its large openings to be removed on site to re-connect the large, open interior spaces.’

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The AIA Board of Directors voted today to award the 2009 AIA Gold Medal to Australian architect Glenn Marcus Murcutt, Hon. FAIA. Murcutt was recognized by the AIA Board in large part for the depth of his work and the breadth of his influence.

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‘The AR Awards for Emerging Architecture is the biggest and best award for young architects in the world and gives £15 000 in prize money.

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Dutch architects MVRDV have won a competition to design a city centre for Gwanggyo, a new town south of Seoul, Korea.

‘The Daewoo Consortium and the municipality of Gwanggyo announced the MVRDV concept design for a dense city centre winner of the developer’s competition for the future new town of Gwanggyo, located 35km south of the Korean capital Seoul. The plan consists of a series of overgrown hill shaped buildings with great programmatic diversity, aiming for high urban density and encouragement of further developments around this so-called ‘Power Centre’, one of the envisioned two centres of the future new town.’

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