urbArAmA’s Blog

We’re happy to announce that urbArAmA is finally available in Polish since last weekend. Polish was one of the major European languages we were missing in urbArAmA.
urbArAmA mówi po polsku!!!
The translation has been made by Kasia Adamowicz.  Thanks Kasia for your help and patience with us!
We expect to see soon more Polish architecture lovers [...]

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Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre in South Africa, designed by Peter Rich Architects of Johannesburg, has won global architecture’s most coveted accolade of World Building of the Year at the prestigious World Architecture Festival Awards (WAF Awards) 2009.
The presentation took place during a special awards ceremony, which marked the conclusion of global architecture summit the World Architecture [...]

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Dear friends of urbArAmA,
It’s been a year since the launch of urbArAmA Atlas of Architecture . We would like to thank you for your support and feedback during this year.
We released urbArAma to make extremely easy to share engineering and architecture projects on the Internet. With urbArmA you can easily share your own architecture projects [...]

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Due to an overwhelming amount of interest, the entry deadline for the AR Emerging Architecture Awards has been extended. The new deadline is:
FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2009
You now have an extra 10 days in which to send in your entries so don’t miss out on the chance to see your work:

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El prestigioso arquitecto Josep Lluís Mateo, presentará su último libro Ocasiones en la galería RAS de Barcelona. El libro recoge proyectos, charlas y reflexiones del arquitecto durante los últimos cinco años. Con motivo de esta presentación, el estudio ha ideado una instalación efímera, Occasional City, que muestra maquetas y documentos de proyectos recientes.
Sobre el libro:
El [...]

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We just received a few days ago our business cards for urbArAmA. They’re cute! We’d like to share the process of designing and printing them.
For the reverse of the business cards we thought it would be a nice idea to have some architecture sketches. And we inmediately thought about Alvaro Carnicero, an Spanish young [...]

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There are only 16 days to entry your last projects at the World Architecture Festival Awards. So, you better enter today to benefit from:

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Compete, contemplate, learn and network at World Architecture Festival
World Architecture Festival comprises the world’s largest architectural awards programme. The nature in which the shortlisted compete is truly unique. Each shortlisted individual presents in front of an audience of their peers and the world’s most renowned expert architects such as Raphael Vinoly, Sou Fujimoto, Lorenzo Apicella, [...]

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Zurich, May 8, 2009 - The second cycle of the Holcim Awards competition has reached its pinnacle: the top sustainable construction projects out of thousands of submissions from all continents have been selected.
Gold for River remediation and urban development scheme in Fez, Morocco
A project centered upon restoration of the river through the UNESCO World [...]

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We are happy to anounce that urbArAmA is part of the endorsers of the World Architecture Festival, that will take place again in Barcelona at the CCIB from 4-6 November 2009 -, after a succesful edition last year, now is bigger and better than ever, now with 4 awards sections, 42 categories and 100+ building [...]

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