The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) just announced the winners of its Rising Tides competition. Six winners will share a total prize of $25,000. The selection of six winners was an unexpected twist in announcing the competition results and illustrated just how many…

The international contest for the James Dyson Award, celebrating, encouraging and inspiring the next generation of design engineers, invites the public to participate in the People’s Vote stage. Until Monday, July 20, the website is opened up to a public vote in…

Perilous city cycling. Communicating with the deaf. Filtering contaminated water. These are a few of the issues students have tackled in the U.S. “Eye for Why”, student design competition run by the James Dyson Foundation. Beginning in 2009, “Eye for Why”, along with 20 other regional student design competitions will…

The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture has announced the recipients of ACADIA awards for excellence. Inaugurated in 1998, the ACADIA Award of Excellence is one of the highest awards that can be achieved in the field of architectural computing. It represents recognition, by colleagues and peers worldwide, of…

Students from the University of Nottingham have won top prizes in the steel industry’s equivalent of the Oscars. Second-year architecture student Li Gan from the School of the Built Environment beat final-year students from all over Europe to take first prize in the Corus student Architecture competition. And a team…