Christopher Karlson of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been named the 2011 Rotch Travelling Scholarship recipient. Karlson will receive a $37,000 stipend to spend eight months traveling and studying architecture around the world. As first runner-up, Young Seop Lee of Jersey City, New Jersey, is invited to compete…

The Boston Society of Architects plans to move from its current location on 52 Broad Street to a new space at Atlantic Wharf, as part of a major transformation of the 1867 institution. As part of an open design competition, the BSA selected Höweler +…

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) just announced that the 2011 AIA Twenty-Five Year Award goes to the John Hancock Tower in Boston, MA, designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. Lead designers of this office tower completed in 1976 were Henry…

The SHIFTboston International Ideas Competition gathered 141 entries from sixteen states and fourteen countries. A diverse selection of students and professionals stepped forward to answer the call: ‘WHAT IF this could happen in Boston?’ SHIFTboston sought to collect visions that aim to enhance and electrify…

A new £1 million initiative from the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust and UK-based architecture company RMJM, aims to transform some of Britain’s most deprived inner city areas “from the inside out” by encouraging more young people from Black and ethnic minorities to…