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…

On September 1, Bustler reported that the proposal “c_life – City as living factory of ecology” by British/German/Italian team ARUP/Sauerbruch Hutton/Experientia/Galley Eco Capital was selected as the first prize winner of the sustainable development design competition Low2No. This Finish-organized competition invited teams from around the…

The Low2No Competition for an energy- and innovation block in Jätkäsaari, Helsinki, is shifting from ideas to implementation. The five international teams, selected out of 74 applicants to take part in the competition last May, have delivered their competition proposals during the summer. The competition results were…

New York firm LOT-EK has been selected to design Pier 57 as part of New York City’s Hudson River Park development. The proposal, a team effort with developer Young Woo & Associates, foresees a rooftop park crowning a small…

Floating homes, sunken pontoons and timber drawbridges are just some of the innovations presented by architects across the world in a bid to design a flood proof house for the future. The competition launched by Norwich Union, with the support of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), aimed to…

The design contest NEUE HAMBURGER TERRASSEN has been promoted by the IBA HAMBURG (Internationale Bauausstellung) an International exhibition that will take place in 2013 with the purpose to rehabilitate the industrial district situated on the south of the river Elbe in a residential area and to integrate it to the…

  The Cooper Union Student Eco Initiative is looking for designers across the world who have an opinion on the current trend of green design.  They are collecting responses from professionals, students, and the population at large to incorporate into their first public work. The initiative hopes to use the…

Via the Warsaw Business Journal: World-renowned architects and architectural studios are participating in a number of new real estate projects in Poland. As more public and private investors turn to architectural stars to give their projects top-quality designs, the country is now set to see…

In the Urban Splash Lex Walsall competition, seven finalists have been announced. Among the shortlisted firms is Flacq that - in a collaboration with Featherstone Associates - already won the Urban Splash Morecambe Central Promenade competition in 2006, and Moh Architects from Austria who scored second in the developer’s…

Atkins competes amongst itself for Tameer’s Sheikh Zayed Road landmark Dubai, 23rd June, 2008 – In what has been labeled as a unique internal design competition, Tameer Holding has today announced that acclaimed designers Atkins will compete amongst itself across three of its leading design centres for the privilege of…