A collaboration between Canadian architectural practice Fowler Bauld & Mitchell and Denmark's schmidt hammer lassen architects will design a 45 million Canadian dollars (€ 33 million) Central Library in the Canadian port city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Halifax Regional Municipality received 13 submissions from internationally renowned firms such as HOK Architects/Lydon Lynch Architects; Moriyama & Teshima Architects/Barrie & Langille Architects, and Shore Tilbe Irwin & Partners/John K. Dobbs and Associates.

Manhattan-based architects Reiser + Umemoto announced that the firm has won an international competition to design Asia’s first performance complex devoted to pop music.

Created in collaboration with global engineering practice Arup Associates, the winning design for the Taipei Pop Music Center in Taipei, Taiwan sets a new standard for performing arts centres everywhere, combing multiple venues and novel design solutions to create an immersive pop music experience.

The program for the Center comprises an indoor multi-balcony theatre accommodating 3,000- to 6,000-person audiences in seated and standing formats, an outdoor performing space with 15,000 standing seats, a Hall of Fame museum, a digital music and media library, medium and small indoor exhibition and performing live houses, music industry offices and communities and incubation space.

"The wooden beacons" is an installation by Architect Matteo Thun and the Fashion House Marni: a talking point about life cycle rhythm. A process of managing the entire life cycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture.

"The wooden beacons" is a dialogue between two creative worlds: architecture and fashion. Hardware and software. The mix of raw and soft elements as a demonstration of life cycle management. Interni Think Tank as a part of the FuoriSalone 2010 is the ideal platform to convey this idea.

HOK London's new office at the Qube in Central London has earned LEED for Commercial Interiors (LEED-CI) Gold certification, the first office space in the United Kingdom to achieve this distinction from the U.S. Green Building Council. The 20,000-square-foot project is the most recent of the architectural design firm's 11 LEED-certified offices.

North Vancouver firm mcfarlane green biggar architecture + design (mgb) has been honoured with two of this year’s six International Interior Design Association awards. Out of nearly 300 projects nominated from around the world, the design for the Rennie Gallery + Offices at Wing Sang, and the inventive interiors for Lynn Steven boutique were both chosen as winning entries for the 37th Annual Interior Design Competition.