The design for Papendorp Business Park in Utrecht, The Netherlands, West 8 designed together with Wissing Stedebouw en Ruimtelijke Vormgeving, has won the Rietveld Award 2009. For the first time, a landscape and urban design project has…

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…

From a writer’s residence powered only by sun and water to the massive new Regional Hospital project, excellence in design was celebrated in the 2009 Wellington Architecture Awards. The landmark BNZ Harbour Quays Building, Moore Wilson Fresh and Chews Lane Precinct are also among winners in the Wellington awards…

Earlier this week, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Seattle chapter honored architects and their project teams from across Washington State for projects exemplifying the best work in a broad array of sectors from single- and multi-family residential, to civic, to commercial. AIA Seattle received 175 submissions —…

The Long Island Chapter of the American Institute of Architects awarded Bates Masi + Architects the prestigious Archi Award for the Lakeside residence in Montauk, Long Island. The award was for the category “Best Single and Multi-Family Residence”.

The presentation of the 2009 LEAF Awards recently took place at a gala night in Berlin. The awards, sponsored by Emirates Glass, have rapidly become one of the most prestigious global architectural prizes acknowledging excellence in the international architectural, design and build professions. The awards are…

Domus (Russia) and the organizational committee of International architectural contest ARCHIP-2009 have named Culver City, California-based firm ZELLNERPLUS the winner of the ARCHIP-2009 Interior/Innovations award.

Opening its doors to over 1,500 visitors is the biggest gathering of the global architectural community—the World Architecture Festival, just a few minutes outside Barcelona city center at the Centre Convencions International Barcelona (CCIB), started yesterday November 4 to 6, 2009. The festival, now in its…

The Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards have recently been presented to Australia’s most inspiring recent architectural projects and architects at an award ceremony in Melbourne. A total 32 awards and commendations across 12 categories were awarded to projects in Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory, New South…

RMJM architects have recently been awarded a prestigious Cityscape Award in Dubai, UAE. Gordon Hood and Roger Klein of RMJM accepted the Islamic Architecture Award for their work on the Zliten Al-Asmariya University for Islamic Sciences in Libya.