New Orleans-based Billes Architecture selected some of the top design schools in North America to participate in a student competition for new home designs for the Gulf Coast of the United States. The original designs had to be contemporary, innovative, and sustainable. The entries came in on…

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the 17 recipients of the 2009 Housing Awards. The AIA’s Housing Awards Program, now in its ninth year, was established to recognize the best in housing design and promote the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for…

In 2007, eight designers were asked to submit two designs for an international competition for Zero Energy Housing, on six sites in the middle of Sentul Park in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. From sixteen designs six designs were chosen to be constructed. The project is envisaged as one of the the…

The winners for Andes Sprouts Society’s call for entries have yet to be announced (extended submission period ended February 28), but here’s a preview of some of the most exciting proposals for sustainable studio/living units at ASsociety’s meadow farmland in New…

Peter Barber Architects, with Places for People Developments, have been announced as winners of a high profile competition run by the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham to design a high density urban quarter of 68 homes in Goldhawk Road, London. Goldhawk…

The Daewoo Consortium and the municipality of Gwanggyo announced the MVRDV concept design for a dense city centre winner of the developer’s competition for the future new town of Gwanggyo, located 35km south of the Korean capital Seoul. The plan consists of a series of overgrown hill shaped buildings with…

Slovenia-based OFIS Arhitekti have won the first prize in the invited competition for a student dormitory in Paris’ Route des Petits Ponts. The project had to deal with an odd-shaped site, tight completion deadlines, accessibility for handicapped people, and high demands in sustainability due to the…

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…

This competition is first and foremost about the application of the principles of Universal Design to the cause of affordable housing. The sponsor of the competition, Beyond Housing, wishes to both honor and advance the work of one of its founding members, Janet Becker.  Mrs. Becker has been a steadfast…

And the winner is: Robert Humble, Joel Egan, Ben Spencer, Owen Richards, Tom Mulica, and Kate Cudney, with Hybrid / ORA, Seattle, Washington. Finalists: Five finalists were selected from 182 entrants proposing a sustainable, affordable house that addresses the needs of a low-income family in the Gulf Coast region. The…