The World Architecture Festival Awards program has announced its 2011 award shortlist with 281 entries spanning the globe from as far south as Tasmania to the Arctic Circle in Norway with new countries such as Libya, Haiti and Cambodia appearing alongside the USA, UK, Australia, China, Japan, Spain, and…

More breaking award news from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA): the shortlist for the 2011 RIBA Lubetkin Prize, given to the best international building outside the European Union, has been announced. The jury was chaired by RIBA President-Elect Angela Brady with architects Deborah Saunt, Jim Eyre and…

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has unveiled the shortlist for the prestigious £20,000 ($32.5K) RIBA Stirling Prize. This year is the first time the shortlist includes practices who have all previously been shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize; and also includes two RIBA Stirling Prize winners: David…

The Buckminster Fuller Institute announced the Semi-Finalists for the 2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. The jury will select a winner who will be revealed at a public ceremony in New York in early June 2011. The winner will be presented with the OmniOculi sculpture and the $100,000 prize…

The European Commission and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation today announced the six finalists competing for the 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – the Mies van der Rohe Award. They have been shortlisted from 343 works in 33 European countries. The award…

London's Better Bankside initiative and the Architecture Foundation have announced five shortlisted designs for the Bankside Bikeshed competition. The announcement also marked the launch of the Bankside Bikeshed exhibition showcasing a selection of entries. The five finalists were selected from over 50 entries, the jury…

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London released images of the seven design proposals put forward by the teams shortlisted in the Exhibition Road Design Competition. The extension project will provide a purpose-built new gallery in which to present the V&A’s high-profile program of temporary exhibitions, a courtyard…

The shortlist for the Edinburgh Architectural Association Awards 2011 has been announced. The list of finalists groups Scotland's fiften best projects in the categories Building of the Year, Regeneration/Conservation Award, Small Projects Award, and Ambassador Award. The results will be announced on Thursday, April14

Last Thursday, four globally renowned landscape and urban design teams converged on Minneapolis to present to the public their visions for the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition (MR|DC) at the Walker Art Center. The teams - Ken Smith Workshop (New York City), Stoss Landscape Urbanism (Boston),…

London's Design Museum today announced the nominees for the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2011. The nominated designs are listed in seven award categories: Architecture, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Interactive, Product, and Transport. An exhibition of all shortlisted entries is taking place from February 16 –…