An ambitious zero-energy retrofit proposal for a downtown Los Angeles federal building has just won the first prize of the 8th Annual Next Generation Design Competition, presented by Metropolis magazine in partnership with the General Services Administration. The brief of the…

An American architecture professor, Ginger Krieg Dosier, 32, Assistant Professor of Architecture at American University of Sharjah (AUS) in Abu Dhabi, has won this year’s prestigious Metropolis Next Generation Design Prize for “Biomanufactured Brick.” The 2010 Next Generation Prize Challenge was “ONE DESIGN FIX…

Seven projects have been named winners of the 2009 Great Places Awards. The Great Places Awards reflect the related missions of the program’s sponsors: Places, the Environmental Design Research Association, and Metropolis magazine. Design Awards (for completed projects that demonstrate excellence as human environments) were given to: The Norwegian National…

The Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle, WA, designed by Rick Sundberg, FAIA LEED AP of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects has received awards in two major national design competitions: a Great Places Award given by the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), Places:…

Architect and Professor Eric Olsen Wins 2008 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Prize San Francisco, May 2, 2008 A Bay Area architect and professor at the California College of Arts has been chosen as this year’s winner of the prestigious Metropolis Next Generation® Design Prize.