The City of Sydney has just announced the winning team in the international competition to design a new library and plaza for Green Square, one of the city's major new developments. The jury, including famed architects John Denton, George Hargreaves, and Pritzker Prize winner Glenn Murcutt, selected the entry…

A few days ago, we published one of the finalist entries of the international design ideas competition, Transiting Cities - Low Carbon Futures. The competition was open to designers from around the world; landscape architects, architects, urban planners and associated design disciplines to develop innovative visions for…

Last fall, the international research project and design ideas competition, "Transiting Cities - Low Carbon Futures," had invited designers and academic institutions from various fields to envision new, innovative and alternative cities of the near future by defining opportunities for transition into low carbon, prosperous, and vibrant communities.…

In the competition for the design of Sydney’s new integrated convention, exhibition and entertainment precinct at Darling Harbour, the joint venture of global design firms HASSELL + Populous has won the architectural contract. The project is due for completion in 2016.

The Australian Institute of Architects has unveiled plans and preview images of its exhibition, Formations: New Practices in Australian Architecture, which will open at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale this August. In the face of new economic, social and cultural challenges, the exhibition at the Australian Pavilion…

Sydney-based Mark Tyrrell Studio has collaborated with Daniel Griffin to create a first prize winning entry to the 2011 international design competition Ideas on Edge Parramatta. The competition received over 150 entries, 40% international and the remainder from around Australia. There were three equal winners. Tyrrell…

Winners have been announced at this year's ResilientCity.org Design Ideas Competition. Of the twenty finalist entries, the concept "Living with the Water Paradox" by Nok Ratanavong, Sang Ok Kim, and James Kim was selected as the First-Place winner. Winner of the special prize for Best Insights was…

The competition for the new Soheil Abedian School of Architecture for Bond University in the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia has been won by CRAB – the studio of Sir Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham - in association with Brit Andresen.

Multidisciplinary design practice, HASSELL, was one of the big winners at the Australian Architecture Awards ceremony held in Canberra last night. These awards comprise the Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture for Epping to Chatswood Rail Link in Sydney, the Emil Sodersten Award for Interior Architecture…

Yesterday, the Australian Institute of Architects presented the winners of the National Architecture Awards. The 2010 awards were presented to Australia’s most inspiring recent architectural projects and architects, at a special ceremony last night in Australia's capital Canberra. A total 33 awards and commendations across 12 categories were awarded…