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…

Frits van Dongen of de Architekten Cie. has won an international invited competition for 1400 units of social housing in Seoul, South Korea. This competition for Seoul Gangnam District is an initiative by the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (KLHC) with the objective of providing…

At the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design‘s Dingbat 2.0 Exhibition opening last Saturday, June 19, the winning and honorable mention entries from the Dingbat 2.0 Competition were announced. In the Professional category, eight winning…

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the 18 recipients of the 2010 Housing Awards. The AIA’s Housing Awards Program, now in its tenth 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…

Good news from Ljubljana, Slovenia: The City Council just approved the Rose Garden Islands project in the prominent green residential area of Ljubljana Rozna Dolina - Flower Valley. In 2009, this concept for an apartment complex was the winning entry by Slovenian OFIS Arhitekti in an…