BOARD (Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design) was founded in 2005 and is active in many fields: as an architecture and urban design practice, as a research board and as a platform for comparative analysis on urban issues through its bi-annual journal MONU - magazine on urbanism. BOARD won several prizes recently in prestigious international architecture and urban design competitions. Among others: The New Headquarter for Wexford County Council in Ireland; the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn, Estonia; and the House of Arts and Culture in Beirut, Lebanon. In 2006 BOARD collaborated with STAR - strategies + architecture and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) to update the study "The Image of Europe" that was exhibited in April 2006 in the centre of Vienna, Austria during Austria's presidency of the European Union. In 2008 BOARD was listed as one of the "Top Ten emerging offices under 40" in the Netherlands by NIB (New Italian Blood) in collaboration with Hans Ibelings and the A10 Magazine.