The Design Museum in London today announced the seven category winners of the Brit Insurance Design Awards 2010. Collectively they celebrate everyday design, reflecting international trends, current themes of sustainability and social enablement. In the Architecture Category, Chilean studio

The winners of the HOUSING TOMORROW competition for 2010 have been announced by d3, an organization committed to advancing innovative positions in architecture, art, and design by providing a collaborative environment for architects, artists, designers, and students from throughout New York City and around…

The ‘Shuffle’ proposal by young Norwegian Eriksen Skajaa Architects for the revitalization of Oslo’s Haugerud suburb has recently won the EUROPAN 10 contest for Oslo, Norway. The project is exploring low rise/high density urban planning as a way to reinforce local identity…

Paris-based office LAN Architecture began the new year with two competition wins for new residential areas in France: a sustainable and social living space in Bègles and a hybrid model between collective and individual housing in Mouvaux. LAN Architecture was also recently featured in the

London-based Serie Architects, with offices in Mumbai and Beijing, has won an invited design competition for a middle-income housing project in Slovakia’s capital Bratislava. Serie saw off strong competition from an impressive shortlist that includes Dutch Neuteling Riedijk and Austrian Querkraft.…

Danish architects BIG, in collaboration with British structural and civil engineering firm AKT, Swedish consultant Tyréns and German climate engineers Transsolar have just been awarded first place in a design competition in Malmø, Sweden for a 100,000 m2 first of its kind…

The five plans which have been nominated by the jury of the Ymere NAI idea competition 2009, are announced in New York. This year’s competition, ‘Open Fort 400’, which is jointly organized by the Ymere Housing Corporation and the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) in close collaboration…

In June 2009, OLIAROS, a young Greek property development company, issued a call for architects up to 35 years old to submit proposals for the design and construction of a model, affordable student housing complex in Kerameikos and Metaxourgeio (KM), an…

“Common Houses”, the design entry by Jude Barber and Phil Zoechbauer of Glasgow-based Collective Architecture, has recently been announced winner of the Common of Houses Competition. This British competition, open to all designers, asked to come up with creative (and sometimes…

Porto, Portugal-based Impromptu Arquitectos, together with their British partner Sergison Bates, have won the “Make Me a Home” competition to design the family homes at Tees Valley Regeneration’s flagship scheme on North Shore in Stockton-on-Tees, England. Developers Urban Splash…