Architecture
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Iceland: Renewal through architecture
7 May 2013269 Público Lisbon -
Design: The runaway architecture of the ECB
26 April 201312935 Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Museums: Antwerp bets on the MAS
20 May 201185 De Morgen Brussels -
Urbanism: Digging deep for a better life
14 April 20112811 Polityka Warsaw -
A city in Europe: Nostalgia for Bucharest's golden age
13 April 2011167 Dilema Veche Bucharest -
Architecture: Souto de Moura wins Pritzker Prize
29 March 2011PresseuropPúblico -
Cities: Gated communities, German style
1 December 20101923 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Architecture: Scaling down on starchitects
6 April 2010203 Trouw Amsterdam -
Netherlands: Rebuilding the forbidden city
6 January 2010De Volkskrant Amsterdam
Completed just as the financial bubble burst, the Harpa concert hall symbolises the recovery of Iceland following years of gloom. Just one of the reasons why it was awarded the 2013 Mies van der Rohe European Architecture Prize. 
For the new building of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Vienna architect Wolf D. Prix sought inspiration in the fast-paced game of FC Barcelona. From two twisted, avant-garde office towers, the European Central Bank will soon be steering Europe through the crisis. 
Inaugurated on 17 May, Antwerp’s new metropolitan museum has become a talking point for its architecture. But will it, as its designers have hoped, bring lasting change to the Flemish city? Planner and columnist Filip Canfyn is not convinced. 
From the eastern Baltic to the western straits, Scandinavians are building everything underground: roads, tunnels, and even huge shopping malls. Polish weekly Polityka reports. 
Nicknamed "Little Paris", the Romanian capital is getting a little uglier every day, carved up by building sites that are as mammoth as they are meaningless. But some parts of the town have retained their charm, and it wouldn’t take much to give the city a human face. The architect Teodor Frolu reports. 
Rich man, poor man: as the wealth gap widens in Berlin, the well-heeled are fencing themselves in. They feel safe in their gated communities – if only it weren’t for the neighbours…. The envy. And the protest. 
The days of ostentatious architecture by star architects are at an end. Under the influence of the economic crisis, budgets have been pared down and vast projects have been set aside to be replaced by more modest buildings. A positive change, which will force architects to seek solutions to problems that they themselves have helped to create, argues director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), Ole Bouman. 
On the immense site of what was once the "Philips forbidden city," work is underway to build a new neighbourhood. The development plan, the largest of its kind in the Netherlands, will bring new life to a town that has always identified itself with the electronics group.