Mecanoo architecten has won the architectural selection for the new Noorderpoort regional community college in Stadskanaal, the Netherlands. The 8,500 m² college is like a mansion with beautiful wetlands as a front lawn situated within the town's green heart. The community college provides education to 1300 students…

The Architectural Association School of Architecture and Foster + Partners have announced the winner of the 2011 Foster + Partners Prize, which is presented annually to the AA School of Architecture’s Diploma student whose portfolio best addresses the themes of sustainability and infrastructure. This year’s…

The new Ravensbourne campus, a university sector college innovating in digital media and design, at London's Greenwich Peninsula was just recently one of the winners in the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Awards 2011 (previously on Bustler). From a shortlist of 55 schemes, Ravensbourne’s building,…

Daniel Toole, an architect at Perkins + Will in Seattle and a 2008 University of Oregon architecture graduate, has won the 5th Annual Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship award for his design, “Whittier Organic Food Center Towers,” a system that “flips” greenhouses vertically to incorporate on-site…

Winners of the Thirteenth Annual Berkeley Prize Competition were announced yesterday by Professor Raymond Lifchez, Chair of the Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence. Since its founding, the international Berkeley Prize competition has encouraged undergraduate architecture students to write about issues central to the understanding…

Amsterdam-based NL Architects have recently won the competition for a new school building in Knokke-Heist, Belgium. The proposal "De Vonk" (The Spark) acts as a transition between the city's outer rim and the adjacent farmland.

Austrian practice AllesWirdGut has been named winner of the competition to design the new Vocational School for Administration in Vienna's Embelgasse. The winning concept is seeking to make the new school citizen-friendly and learning a part of public life again.

Launched with the keynote lecture Complicity and Simplexity by Branko Kolarevic, Chair in Integrated Design at the University of Calgary, TEX-FAB 2.0 began its second event to great success. Well over 100 attendees from across the US, Mexico and the UK attended the Friday lecture series…

Collectif etc have shared with us the design-build project "A nous le parking" that they recently conducted with students of the National Graduate School of Science and Technology in Strasbourg, France. The project questions the dominance of spaces for cars vs. spaces for people in the urban…

The new City of Westminster College in London which opened to students on January 10, 2011 is the first completed building by Danish schmidt hammer lassen architects in the UK, soon to be followed by The Learning Zone – Library and Learning Centre in Sheffield and the…