Tomorrow, November 2, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art will celebrate the public opening of its $55 million Herta and Paul Amir Building. The 195,000-square-foot building adds a visionary work of contemporary architecture to the Museum’s campus in the heart of Tel Aviv and provides…

In the last few days, we've published the winners of the Regional Holcim Awards 2011 for Latin America, as well as Europe. Here are now also the winning projects of the competition for sustainable construction projects and visions from Africa Middle East which had been announced recently…

News broke that Chicago firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture is designing Kingdom Tower, to be the world’s tallest building, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, near the Red Sea. At over 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) and a total construction area of 530,000 square meters (5.7 million…

The practice of former SOM London Design Director Michel Mossessian, mossessian & partners, will receive two awards at MIPIM Architectural Review Future Awards this year for Al Barahat Square, a new civic space in Doha, Qatar and the centerpiece of Qatari developer Dohaland’s $5.5 billion…

Los Angeles-based Ehrlich Architects have been awarded the grand prize in the international architectural competition to design the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) Federal National Council’s (FNC) New Parliament Building Complex. Fourteen firms representing nine countries had been invited in early 2010 to submit entries in Phase…

The energy-generating public art installation Lunar Cubit has won the First Prize at the 2010 Land Art Generator Design Competition. Lunar Cubit illuminates in an inversely proportional relationship to the lunar cycle so that the work becomes most fully lit during the night of a new moon.…

The five projects selected for the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced today at a prize-giving ceremony held at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. The five projects selected by the 2010 Master Jury are: Wadi Hanifa Wetlands, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia…

The Bat-Yam Biennale of Landscape Urbanism announced the three winning teams of the "72 Hour Urban Action" Real-Time Architecture Competition. 120 participants, coming from 19 countries, worked together in 10 teams and had only three days three nights to design and build…

In the Traffic Design Competition Vol. 2 - Design as Reform, the design proposal MOSQUE IS MORE by Brusselssprout was selected as Finalist in the Mosque Category. The international competition, organized by Dubai-based art and design organization

The shortlist of 19 nominees for the 2010 cycle of Aga Khan Award for Architecture was announced today by the Master Jury. The nominees, which range from a textile factory in Turkey to a school built on a bridge in China, are located in Albania, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, China, India,…