Robert A. M. Stern has been named the 2011 recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. Stern will receive $200,000 and a model of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates during a March 26, 2011, ceremony in Chicago.

The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver is on track to open in the summer of 2011, a building they are confident enough to announce as "the greenest building in North America".

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…

Winners have been announced for the 2009/2010 Leading Edge Student Design Competition. The annual contest seeks to support and enhance the study of sustainable and energy-efficient building practices in architectural education. This year, the competition focused on the coastal city of Long Beach, California. Students entering Challenge 1…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week awarded more than $1 million in grants to 14 college teams across the country who participated in the 6th Annual National Sustainable Design Expo on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The P3 award…

The University of California, Berkeley announced yesterday the selection of three architecture firms to submit design concepts for the new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA). The three firms chosen from a field of ten are

On Friday April 9 2010 the 2010 Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship was awarded to Garrett van Leeuwen.  Runner up was awarded to Ruth Oh. Garrett van Leeuwen is a 2009 5-year Bachelor of Architecture graduate from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Garret’s entry was…

A team of students representing North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill has won the $50,000 top prize in the 2010 Urban Land Institute (ULI) Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition with a…

Weifeng Victoria Lee (Photo: MIT)Architecture student Weifeng Victoria Lee, MIT alumna ’06 MArch ’10, has been named a Gates Cambridge Scholar for 2010. Lee is the only scholar in the field of Architecture among…

Ryerson University President Sheldon Levy today announced the selection of Zeidler Partnership Architects of Toronto in association with Snøhetta of Oslo, Norway and New York City as the co-architects for Ryerson’s new Student Learning Center (SLC). “We are very pleased…