Here's another recently realized project by Italian OBR Open Building Research: the  Milanofiori housing complex in Assago, Milan, Italy.

Norwegian practice A-lab won the open international ideas competition on climate efficient urban development on Furuset area in Oslo. The project goal is to condense the suburb Furuset i Groruddalen outside Oslo with 2,500 new homes and 1,500 new workspaces, and to reduce CO2 emissions by 50…

The winners of the seventh annual Emirates Glass LEAF Awards have been announced. The award panel was looking for strategic excellence, marketplace impact, innovation and practical developments that challenge and change the way we evaluate the buildings of today.  Previous overall winners include 2009 winner Qatar…

Today we bring you another shortlisted entry to the international “36 The Calls” Design Competition run by the Architects Journal with developer Citu. This entry, entitled “Contained calls”, is designed by Aedas. See our previous featured entry by British studio P+HS Architects. Entrants…

British studio P+HS Architects were recently short-listed for the international “36 The Calls” Design Competition run by the Architects Journal with developer Citu. Entrants were asked to draw up proposals for an ‘iconic’ commercial building in Leeds, England on a tight parking…

The winners of the MIPIM Awards 2010 have been announced in Cannes, France. The members of this year’s MIPIM Awards Jury were: President of the Jury Barbel Schomberg, Schomberg & Co. Real Estate Consulting GmbH, Germany; Mr. Max Crofts, President, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - RICS, UK; Mrs. Manuelle…

Last week, Bustler already featured two winners of three Norwegian sites for the EUROPAN 2010 contest: Vardø and Oslo. The proposal ‘Proscenium’ by Greek studio Point Supreme Architects, in collaboration with Alex Gerousis, is the winner of the third…

The proposal ‘Poetic/ Pathetic’ by Ivanisin. Kabashi. Arhitekti from Zagreb, Croatia has won the open international competition for the development of the Mratinje Dam Complex in Montenegro that was launched by the Montenegrin Ministry for Spatial Planning and Environmental Protection. The competition aims to…

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…