Rome-based practice OFL architecture has shared with us their project Silk Road Map Evolution that just won them the First Prize in the international competition "New Silk Road Map". The competition was organized by New Italian Blood and was open to Italian and…

MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts| in Rome by Zaha Hadid Architects has won the RIBA Stirling Prize 2010, in association with The Architects Journal and Benchmark. The presentation of the UK's premier architectural award took place at a special awards…

The entry by Anglo-German practice Sauerbruch Hutton has recently won the M9 International Architectural Design Competition, the new cultural pole that will open in Venice-Mestre, Italy in 2014.

Here's the fascinating entry "Slow Up-rising" by Canadian firm Ja Studio to Solar Park South, the international ideas competition in Calabria, Italy. The competition brief called for a 'Solar Highway' by re-using Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway sections between Scilla and Bagnara to be decommissioned by the Italian Highways Authority.…

Today, Emergency Exit, the Polish Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, had its opening reception, and we're happy to share images and a description of this fascinating installation. The exhibition will be open to the public starting this Sunday, August 29, until…

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…

Architecture and Vision have won the international competition for a sculpture in the “Piazza della Memoria” on the waterfront of Messina, Sicily.

The American Academy in Rome yesterday announced the winners of the 2010-2011 Rome Prize. The Rome Prize is awarded annually through an open national competition that is juried by leading artists and scholars in the fellowship categories.…

Every year, the Trieste Contemporanea Committee assigns a promising artist the Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award with the aim of promoting his work and exposing it to the international artistic scene. The winner of the 2009 edition was Driant Zeneli (Shkoder, Albania, 1983). The acknowledgement will…

In December 2008, Italian fashion brand United Colors of Benetton launched the international competition Designing in Teheran to develop a design for two multistory buildings in Iran’s capital city of Teheran. Designers were called to integrate the new structures in the local urban and commercial setting…