Yearbook 08|09

The New European Architecture 2008/2009 yearbook presents an overview of the latest European architecture, with an extensive selection of twenty projects previously featured in the magazine. In addition it contains essays on the regeneration of Bilbao, the state of European landscape architecture, global regionalism in contemporary European architecture and reviews of three much publicized projects: Caixa Forum in Madrid, the Oslo Opera and the New Acropolis Museum in Athens. Moreover Aaron Betsky looks back at his Venice Biennale, and Philipp Oswalt at five years of Shrinking Cities.

• Exceptional architecture in everyday circumstances / by Hans Ibelings

• Bilbao / The architectural triumph of post-industrial Bilbao / by Carlos Guimarães
• Abstract Romanticism / European landscape architecture and the globalisation of nature / by Christian Welzbacher
• Small-town architecture / Global regionalism in Europe / by Hans Ibelings

• Review / Opera House, Oslo
• Interview / Aaron Betsky
• Review / Caixa Forum, Madrid
• Interview / Philipp Oswalt
• Review / New Acropolis Museum, Athens

• Open-air stage / Grafenegg, Austria / The next ENTERprise
• Narona Archaeological Museum / Vid, Croatia / Goran Rako, Nenad Ravnic and Blanka Gutschy
• Rotermann Complex / Tallinn, Estonia / Kosmos
• Apartment building / Paris, France / Beckmann-N'Thepe
• RATP administrative centre / Thiais, France / Emmanuel Combarel, Dominique Marrec
• Trumf gatehouse / Ditzingen, Germany / Barkow Leibinger
• Community centre / Mannheim-Neuhermsheim, Germany / netzwerk architekten
• Apartment block Práter Utca / Budapest, Hungary / Kis Péter Építészmüterme
• Birkimörk halfway house / Hveragerdi, Iceland / PK Arkitektar
• Camping ground / San Vincenzo, Italy / Archea Associati
• Covered sports ground / Jurmala, Latvia / Substance
• Apartment building / Amsterdam, Netherlands / hvdn architecten
• Apartment building / Stavanger, Norway / Helen & Hard
• REFER operational centre / Lisbon, Portugal / GLCS-Arquitectos
• Apartment building / Ljubljana, Slovenia / Sadar Vuga arhitekti
• Tram stop / Alicante, Spain / Subarquitectura
• Villa / Stockholm, Sweden / Johannes Norlander
• Clubhouse and maintenance building / Sempachersee, Switzerland / Smolenicky & Partner Architektur
• Dogan Media Centre / Ankara, Turkey / Tabanlioglu Architects
• Civil Justice Centre / Manchester, United Kingdom / Denton Corker Marshall