The joint venture of Amsterdam-based de Architekten Cie. (Frits van Dongen, Patrick Koschuch and Jason Lee) and Rotterdam practice SVESMI (Alexander Sverdlov), are multiple winners of the open international competition A101 in Moscow, Russia. A101 Block City is the first phase of a huge 13,000…

The Design Exchange (DX) recently announced the 2010 winners of Canada’s National Design Exchange Awards. This nationwide competition is open to all types of professional designers and business’ across Canada working in a range of design disciplines. The awards were presented at a gala dinner on the…

The threat of mankind by the undead is a topic that has been neglected by architectural design for too long. The happier we are that the 2010 Zombie Safe House Competition is finally tackeling this important issue. The spatial program was as challenging as the zombie threat itself: weapons…

The American Institute of Architect’s (AIA) Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge Community, in conjunction with the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), recognized four recipients of the 2010 AIA/HUD Secretary Awards. The categories of the program include (1) Excellence in…

Islington Council has announced that the 'homesown' scheme by Levitt Bernstein, in conjunction with Aecom and Arcadis, has won the 1st Prize of the Islington Housing Design Competition. The winning proposal suggests a new philosophy on 21st century family living: spacious family homes…

Paris-based firm LAN has won the competition organized by ICF Novedis to design the block 4.2 of the new Cardinet-Chalabre urban development zone in Paris, France. The project sits at a sensitive transition point between two Parisian urban areas and will act as a fulcrum between the…

If an architect's intentions and restrictions could be worn on his perverbial sleeve,  then the Cabinet Home would be a good example.   Rintala Eggertsson Architects is led by the partnership between Sami, whose artistic view of architecture pertains to narrative along with conceptualism, and Dagur, who experiments with different…

Cambridge, MA-based firm Peter Rose + Partners announce the opening of the Housing Tower at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in western Massachusetts.

Los Angeles firm Standard has won the Single Family Housing category at the 40th Annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards with their project “Hidden House”.

Five winning designs, as well as five honorable mentions, have recently been announced for the international Open Source House competition. The design competition started on January 15, 2010 and was open for team or individual participation. The challenge is was to design a sustainable, flexible…