Rotterdam’s top museum Boi­j­mans van Beunin­gen gets a archive exten­sion by MVRDV. I espe­cially like the cross-​section.

Last week we pointed you to emerg­ing archi­tects and cities to go to, this week archinect inter­viewed offices about what they value in job appli­ca­tions. Useful. The shift to dig­i­tal appli­ca­tions is remark­able, but it was about time.

Worth a visit is the recently launched site of REX, with a nice vir­tual tour through the Museum Plaza Project.

The former employer/partner of Prince-​Ramus, Rem Kool­haas, will present the “Al Manakh” pub­li­ca­tion together with Ole Bouman at Rotterdam’s Nai on 10th of sep­tem­ber at 8pm. Details in our cal­en­dar. If you can’t attend, you can as well watch your idol doing acro­batic stunts.

The Holcim Foun­da­tion started accept­ing entries for their sus­tain­able con­struc­tion awards. From their site:

The Holcim Awards com­pe­ti­tion is now open for entries and will close on Feb­ru­ary 29, 2008. The com­pe­ti­tion cel­e­brates inno­v­a­tive, future-​oriented and tan­gi­ble sus­tain­able con­struc­tion projects from around the globe and pro­vides prize money of USD 2 mil­lion per three-​year com­pe­ti­tion cycle.

The Holcim Awards (main cat­e­gory) com­pe­ti­tion is open to projects at an advanced stage of design with a high prob­a­bil­ity of exe­cu­tion. To be eli­gi­ble for entry, the project must not have com­menced exe­cu­tion prior to June 1, 2007.

In addi­tion, a “Next Generation” cat­e­gory is open for project visions at a con­cep­tual level, early stage of design or with a low prob­a­bil­ity of exe­cu­tion. To be eli­gi­ble for entry, the project author(s) must be less than 35 years of age at Feb­ru­ary 29, 2008. Please note there is no global phase of the com­pe­ti­tion for entrants in the “Next Generation” category.