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This modern office architecture is located in the Diplomatic Quarters in Riyadh. The building is the new headquarter of the Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat), an organisation built on a vision of connecting the Arab community to itself and the world with its motto “our world, your world”.

The design of this outstanding building was the subject of an international competition commissioned by the Arriyadh Development Authority in 2008. heneghan.peng.architects with Buro Happold engineers won the competition and were subsequently appointed in March 2009.

It’s Architecture Day here at Infrastructurist. Vanity Fair asked 52 experts to choose the five most important buildings created since 1980, they named a staggering 132 different structures. You can find the top 21, in order of popularity, here. And to see the complete results of the survey DiggSubmi.

Refreshingly, the Top 21 list isn’t entirely dominated by Frank Gehry (though he did nab the top spot with his epic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, pictured above). There’s also a good showing by Sir Norman Foster, whose HSBC headquarters in Hong Kong and Millau Viaduct in France also made the cut. And Rem Koolhaas came in with three buildings: the Seattle Central Library, the legendary CCTV Building in Beijing, and the Casa da Musica in Portugal.

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MILSONS Point has some of the best designed buildings in NSW. The Harry Seidler and Associates offices and.

The Point apartments both took out gongs at the state’s most prestigious public architecture awards last month.

The five-storey office tower at 2 Glenn St, designed by Harry Seidler and Associates, won the 25 Year Award for Enduring Architecture.

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Vanity Fair asked the world's leading architects, critics, and deans of architecture schools two questions: what are the five most important buildings, bridges, or monuments constructed since 1980, and what is the greatest work of architecture thus far in the 21st century.

52 experts, including 11 Pritzker Prize winners, has provided a clear answer: Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. But parsing the votes, which also anointed Renzo Piano's Menil Collection, Peter Zumthor's Thermal Baths, and Sir Norman Foster's HSBC Building, among other significant structures, Matt Tyrnauer examines the complex legacy of Modernism and the impact of its greatest renegade.

Joint Venture Architects Woods Bagot and NHArchitecture's Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) has been honoured with four accolades.

At the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) Victoria Architecture Awards, in addition to receiving the prestigious Victorian Architecture Medal as a "unique project which reveals a number of design ideas that make it a leading project in contemporary world architecture."

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The Anglo-Swiss author Alain de Botton probably would not relish being called the Jamie Oliver of modern architecture but the comparisons might prove irresistible.

By his own admission, the author of The Consolations of Philosophy and The Art of Travel has set out to change perceptions of modern architecture.

He wants people to embrace rather than run from modern design and his method, not unlike that of the tenacious,media-wise chef, is.

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Sustainability has become a design trend in residential and commercial architecture projects alike, says Tom Ward, a principal of Jackson Hole residential and commercial architects Ward + BlakeAs architects, we’ve always been interested.

In green-build technology,” says Ward, “but early on, most of the client interest came from homeowners. Recently we’ve seen that interest grow with our commercial architecture projects – in part because the green features allow them to save money, particularly through energy efficiency.”

Milwaukee Art Museum. 2001. The first project in the U.S. by the Spaniard Santiago Calatrava, best known for his beautiful bridges, was to expand the museum originally designed by Eero Saarinen. Calatrava's new galleries inside were upstaged by his extravagant design outside for a movable winglike brise-soleil, or sunscreen, with a potential span wider than a 747-400's.

Usually we hear of local jobs lost to growing Asian economies. And hiring in real estate? A rarity! Well, a Laguna Beach urban design firm has hired five workers — and has plans to add a similar amount the rest of this year — thanks to burgeoning business from China.

SWA Group’s Laguna Beach office — designers of Orange County neighborhoods  from Shady Canyon to Woodbury — reports that it has seen its usual overseas workload “doubled and tripled … in part because China’s growth merely moderated during the recession.”

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The American Institute of Architects has given a 2010 Institute Honor Award for Architecture to Step Up on 5th, an affordable housing project by Pugh + Scarpa Architects.

The award will be presented at the AIA National Convention and Design Expo in Miami, June 10-12, 2010.

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