Emerging London-based firm Baharash Architecture has been selected to design phase 2 of the 46-hectar Dubai Sustainable City development. The practice is set to open an office in Dubai following the victory against international anonymous teams from the United States, Lebanon, Jordan, UK, and UAE.

In the Traffic Design Competition Vol. 2 - Design as Reform, the design proposal MOSQUE IS MORE by Brusselssprout was selected as Finalist in the Mosque Category. The international competition, organized by Dubai-based art and design organization

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.

In April 2008, 2A Magazine launched “Du(b)ailities: Supra_global_culture / micro_ethnic_localities”, an international architectural competition for students and young architects. Participants were allowed to submit in either one of two or both categories: Category A: Supra_global_culture – large-scale visions Category B: Micro-ethnic-localities…

As many of our readers know, the winners were recently announced for the ThyssenKrupp Elevator Award 2008-09, and the results have proven to be quite controversial.  Winning projects -

Did you submit an entry to the ThyssenKrupp Elevator Architecture Competition?  Are you one of the many that have asked us if April 1st came late this year? We would like to now turn our attention to the “losers” of this competition, to see what…

The winners of the XI edition of the ThyssenKrupp Elevator Architecture Award were announced earlier today.  2967 teams, consisting of 4651 architects from 106 countries, registered for the competition. 926 total projects were received…

Marrakech / Morocco – November 13, 2008 – The winners of the second Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction from across region Africa Middle East were announced at a ceremony in Marrakech. Total prize money of USD 270,000 was presented to eleven projects that illustrated the broad…

On Monday October 6th, the emir of Dubai, Sjeik Mohammed bin Rashi al-Maktoum, officially opened the seventh Cityscape Dubai 2008. During the gala dinner of the largest real estate and development event of its kind, Mecanoo director Francine Houben received the Cityscape Architectural Award for…

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…