Portuguese architects AWAKE are sharing with us their fascinating entry "ColmeiA" for the A101 Block City competition in Moscow, Russia. The concept is based on a modular system arranged in a dense city block which still allows for natural lighting from two fronts for each unit.

Austrian practice AllesWirdGut Architects has recently been named winner in the international architectural competition for the Kirchberg mixed-use development in the Grünewald district of Luxemburg. The architects won the contest for Lot 13, an area comprising a total of 56 condominiums in two blocks, including medical offices…

Today, the five winning designs of "Kay e Sante nan Ayiti" (Creole for Housing and Health in Haiti) were announced. Organized by ARCHIVE (Architecture for Health in Vulnerable Environments), the open-innovation design competition aims to demonstrate the importance of health considerations in housing.  Of course, today also…

Architects Onat Öktem and Ziya Imren have shared with us their entry "Frozen Street - Dissolving Borders" for the A101 Block City Competition for Moscow, Russia. The team just recently won a first prize in the international competition The Building: Problem or Solution? with their entry "A Green Mosque…

Amsterdam architects .FABRIC received an Honorable Mention for their entry 'Calles en Altura - Streets in the Air' in the competition by the Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda y Suelo in Madrid. Amongst the winners for this social housing competition, .FABRIC was the only foreign office that…

The joint venture of Amsterdam-based de Architekten Cie. (Frits van Dongen, Patrick Koschuch and Jason Lee) and Rotterdam practice SVESMI (Alexander Sverdlov), are multiple winners of the open international competition A101 in Moscow, Russia. A101 Block City is the first phase of a huge 13,000…

A collaborative design effort by A-lab (Oslo, Norway) and SEA (Copenhagen, Denmark) has been announced the winner of the competition for a new urban development on Skien Brygge in Norway. The project comprises the transformation of a former harbor area into a new urban community.…

The Design Exchange (DX) recently announced the 2010 winners of Canada’s National Design Exchange Awards. This nationwide competition is open to all types of professional designers and business’ across Canada working in a range of design disciplines. The awards were presented at a gala dinner on the…

Hunsett Mill on the Norfolk Broads by London-based Acme architects has scooped the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) prestigious Manser Medal 2010 for the best new house or major extension in the UK in association with HSBC Private Bank. The presentation of the award took place…

The threat of mankind by the undead is a topic that has been neglected by architectural design for too long. The happier we are that the 2010 Zombie Safe House Competition is finally tackeling this important issue. The spatial program was as challenging as the zombie threat itself: weapons…