The five projects selected for the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced today at a prize-giving ceremony held at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. The five projects selected by the 2010 Master Jury are: Wadi Hanifa Wetlands, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia…

Austin-Smith:Lord have shared with us their entry to the international competition for the Nairobi Greater Metropolitan Region. In January 2010, the UK-based firm together with its Kenyan partners Saad Yahya & Associates and engineering firm Mott Macdonald were shortlisted along with 5 others to develop a concept for…

Five winning designs, as well as five honorable mentions, have recently been announced for the international Open Source House competition. The design competition started on January 15, 2010 and was open for team or individual participation. The challenge is was to design a sustainable, flexible…

Click above image to enlargeSHoP Architects selected to design the Botswana Innovation Hub SHoP Architects has been selected, through an international design competition, to design the Botswana…

Last Friday night, the world turned its attention to Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg, designed by global architects Populous in collaboration with Boogertman Urban Edge & Partners, when South Africa played Mexico in the opening match of the 2010 World Cup. The…

Click above image to enlarge Henning Larsen Architects has won third place in the competition for the ’Nairobi Greater Metropolitan Region’ together with the Niras Consultants and the local partner ETC.

The shortlist of 19 nominees for the 2010 cycle of Aga Khan Award for Architecture was announced today by the Master Jury. The nominees, which range from a textile factory in Turkey to a school built on a bridge in China, are located in Albania, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, China, India,…

German firm Henn Architekten has won the competition to design the new Headquarters of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The proposal was designed by Henn Architekten’s Design & Research Studio in Berlin, HENNStudioB.

A community organization founded by young people in Nairobi’s slums has won the ONE Africa Award, an annual prize given by the global anti-poverty group to honor ground-breaking work by African non-governmental organizations. SIDAREC (the Slums Information Development and Resources Centres) have been awarded…

Five outstanding developments have been selected as winners of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) 2009 Awards for Excellence: Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) competition. This year, the competition also included the announcement of two special award winners. The Awards for Excellence competition is widely…