The Architectural Review

1 week ago | architectural-review.com | Merlin Fulcher

An open international ideas contest featuring a €10,000 prize fund is seeking concepts to reimagine an ancient outdoor auditorium in Ohrid, North Macedonia (Deadline: 10 October)The UNESCO Ancient Theatre competition – organised by TerraViva Competitions – invites architects, designers, and landscape architects to draw up concepts to revitalise the ancient theatre which was unearthed in the mid-20th century and restored in 2001 but has suffered from a lack of maintenance in recent years.

1 week ago | architectural-review.com | Merlin Fulcher

An open international contest is being held for a major €27.5 million renewal of the Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Deadline: 5 June)The competition will select a team to revitalise and enhance the landmark gallery – known locally as GAM – which was founded in 1895 and relocated to its current Carlo Bassi and Goffredo Boschetti-designed complex in 1959.

2 weeks ago | architectural-review.com | Merlin Fulcher

The winner of an open international contest to adapt and reimagine the disused Ijora Power Station in Lagos has been revealedThe competition – organised by Team NowNow in partnership with the Art/Space Negotiation project of the Goethe-Institut – sought proposals to transform the abandoned former power plant into a new inclusive and accessible cultural hub for Nigeria’s largest city.

2 weeks ago | architectural-review.com | Kristina Rapacki

Recent attempts to ‘reinvent’ the hospital are not as innovative as their architects would like you to believeIn December 2024, Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) unveiled plans for Jawaher Boston Medical District in Sharjah in the UAE – a series of rectangular pavilions under a canopy of photovoltaic cells described by Piano as ‘a new model for the hospital of the future’. Three years earlier, in 2021, OMA and Buro Happold presented their designs for the Al Daayan Health District in Qatar.

2 weeks ago | architectural-review.com | Kristina Rapacki

Undercutting and regulatory neglect make construction the deadliest job in the UKNeil Hayes was a talented footballer, described by those who knew him as a sharp wit, someone who could tear up a dance floor. Last summer, Hayes became a statistic, one of dozens of UK construction workers who die on the job every year, when he was crushed by a hydraulic machine while preparing the ground for Allies and Morrison’s latest smooth‑skinned enclave for the branded gentry.