Gapyong Space Invader is a recent competition win for a housing project in Gapyong, northeast of Seoul, South Korea, by Dutch NL Architects in collaboration with Yo2, who had also developed the master plan, and MSA (Marina Stankovic and Tobias Jortzick), CAT (Kazuhiro…

Indian real estate developer City Corporation Ltd has started construction on the first phase of Amanora Apartment City - Future Towers, designed by MVRDV. The project is located in Pune in the Indian state of Maharashtra and features 1,068 apartments & public amenities, as a part of…

Winning entries of the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition 2010 have recently been announced. This round of the annual competition was judged by SANAA-partner Ryue Nishizawa under the theme "A New Spirit", asking designers to envision a new residential architecture that is based on the here and now,…

David Zhai and Alexis Burson, two students from Columbia University GSAPP, were recently selected in the New York category for their entry in this year’s d3: Housing Tomorrow Competition. Their innovative project The Ubiquitous Network, located at the Hoboken Terminal Yards, a 76 acre site straddling New York and…

d3 just announced the winners of the Housing Tomorrow competition for 2011. The annual competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore, analyze, transform, and deploy innovative approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects. Developed by co-directors Gregory Marinic and Mary-Jo Schlachter, the…

Portuguese architects AWAKE are sharing with us their fascinating entry "ColmeiA" for the A101 Block City competition in Moscow, Russia. The concept is based on a modular system arranged in a dense city block which still allows for natural lighting from two fronts for each unit.

Austrian practice AllesWirdGut Architects has recently been named winner in the international architectural competition for the Kirchberg mixed-use development in the Grünewald district of Luxemburg. The architects won the contest for Lot 13, an area comprising a total of 56 condominiums in two blocks, including medical offices…

Today, the five winning designs of "Kay e Sante nan Ayiti" (Creole for Housing and Health in Haiti) were announced. Organized by ARCHIVE (Architecture for Health in Vulnerable Environments), the open-innovation design competition aims to demonstrate the importance of health considerations in housing.  Of course, today also…

Architects Onat Öktem and Ziya Imren have shared with us their entry "Frozen Street - Dissolving Borders" for the A101 Block City Competition for Moscow, Russia. The team just recently won a first prize in the international competition The Building: Problem or Solution? with their entry "A Green Mosque…

Amsterdam architects .FABRIC received an Honorable Mention for their entry 'Calles en Altura - Streets in the Air' in the competition by the Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda y Suelo in Madrid. Amongst the winners for this social housing competition, .FABRIC was the only foreign office that…