And here's another entry to the international competiton for a hotel residence at ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, in the Atacama Desert, in the foothills of the Chilean Andes. This proposal here, we received from Paris-based LAN Architecture who collaborated with German structural engineers…

Finnish architects Kouvo & Partanen have just recently been chosen to design a hotel residence for the astronomers, engineers, and other observatory staff working at ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. At 2,900 meters above sea level, the hotel residence will be built at the…

Chinese practice LYCS Architecture has won an invited competition for a 32,000 sqm testing and assessment research center in the city of Shenzhen, China. The brief called for a mixed-use building including offices, residential and commercial.

German practice HENN ARCHITEKTEN has won the first prize in the international competition to design the new 'Nano-Polis Master Plan' in Suzhou, China. The proposal was designed by HENN ARCHITEKTEN’s Design & Research Studio HENN StudioB.

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the winners of the RIBA President's Awards for Research 2010, which reward and encourage outstanding research in architecture. Awards were presented in the following three categories: PhD Thesis: for the best PhD Thesis…

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…

Berlin-based architecture studio SMAQ, in collaboration with HL landscape architects, has won the international competition for the re-de­sign of the historical port area in Magde­burg, Germany.

Global materials consultancy Material ConneXion announced last week the launch of its first annual MEDIUM Award for Material of the Year, naming UK-based company Concrete Canvas’ Concrete Cloth as the inaugural winner.

The jury for the Upjohn Research Initiative, a joint program of the College of Fellows and the Board Knowledge Committee to support knowledge sharing between practitioners and academicians, has announced the four projects selected to receive grants. The purpose of this grant is to provide base funds for applied research…

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…