The Architectural Review.

The ar+d awards (The Architectural Review and d line international) are to be the theme of the December AR, making it into a special issue on this new and thought-provoking contribution to international architectural culture. The jury (p28) selected one prize winner and commended 20 others from a field of over 900 (some of which are shown below). As might be expected, the majority of entries from architects under 45 were of relatively small schemes, and among the selected works there was a good proportion of houses from South Africa to the USA, Greece to Australia.

But there was also a great range of other types: transport buildings for instance in Germany and Austria, a cultural centre for the Arctic, a church in Japan, a library in India, a town hall in Spain and much else. There were rather more inventive new offices than we expected. Perhaps surprisingly, relatively few interiors and conversions made it to the last round of judging, but the premiated ones, in Budapest and Munich, show a high standard of ingenuity and sensitivity to context.

As well as the ar+d awards, we shall of course be publishing our regular features, new and old: Interior Design (including Eduardo Souto de Moura's strange auditorium in the middle of a car park ramp); Place (our visit to a previously undiscovered potent spot); reviews of current competitions, books and architectural websites; our new monthly house study; View From (a critic writes); Design Review (our study of a particularly outstanding piece of design, ranging from knives and forks to motorway bridges). And of course, Outrage and Delight

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