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08-09-2021

The winners of the International Architecture Awards 2021

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design announced the winners of the International Architecture Awards 2021 on August 17th. The awards are offered for buildings and landscape interventions completed anywhere in the world between 2019 and 2021. The award ceremony will take place on September 10th in Athens, Greece, while “The City and the World”, a traveling exhibition dedicated to all the winning architectures, will visit various European cities during 2022.

09-04-2021

Emerging architects - The winners of the Europe 40under40® Award

The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design have announced the winners of the 2020 edition of the "Europe 40under40®" Award. The challenges associated with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic have not hampered the recognition reserved for young European architects and designers. An award that looks to the future, in search of new emerging figures in the field of architecture and design: 40 professionals under the age of 40, who best represent the European architectural scene.

04-10-2018

Sergei Tchoban wins the 2018 European Prize for Architecture

On September 28 in Athens, the birthplace of western architecture, the 2018 European Prize for Architecture was presented to Russian architect Sergei Tchoban.

08-09-2017

International Architecture Awards presented in Athens

75 buildings have won International Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. The awards ceremony is scheduled for September 8 in Athens.

16-06-2017

Documenta14 in Kassel. 100 days for contemporary art

After Athens in April, documenta14 opened on 10 June 2017 in the historic city of Kassel, Germany, the birthplace of this contemporary art exhibition held every 5 years.

03-05-2017

documenta14. Learning from Athens.

For the first time in the history of documenta - the famous contemporary art exhibition first held in 1955 in Kassel, Germany - two cities are hosting the event on an equal footing: Athens (Greece) from 8 April to 16 July and of course Kassel from 10 June to 17 September 2017, lengthening the traditional duration from 100 to a mighty 163 days.

27-10-2016

RPBW Cultural Centre Stavros Niarchos Kallithea Foundation

The Cultural Centre operated by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Kallithea (Athens) and inaugurated in the summer of 2016, was presented with the ENR 2016 (Engineering News Record) Global Best Projects Award in an awards ceremony held on October 12 in New York.

23-06-2011

Bernard Tschumi, Acropolis museum, Athens

One of 6 finalists for the 2011 Mies van der Rohe Prize for European Contemporary Architecture, the new Acropolis Museum in Athens was awarded the 2011 AIA Institute Honor Award for Architecture by the prestigious American Institute of Architects.