Opening its doors to over 1,500 visitors is the biggest gathering of the global architectural community—the World Architecture Festival, just a few minutes outside Barcelona city center at the Centre Convencions International Barcelona (CCIB), started yesterday November 4 to 6, 2009. The festival, now in its…

Madrid-based international architecture firm A-cero, under the direction of principal Joaquín Torres, has recently won the architectural competition for an academic center that researches renewable energy sources. The building that blends in with the surrounding landscape aims to reach highest goals in sustainable architecture. The international competition was…

The winners of the European Copper in Architecture Awards 14 were announced at a presentation ceremony in London on September 29. With almost 50 entries from 16 countries, the awards revealed a great diversity of projects representing the best in contemporary European architecture.

As a member of the jury for the second edition of the International Urban Garden Competition “Bilbao Jardín 2009”, Diana Balmori of New York-based Balmori Associates was invited to create a garden. Dr. Balmori chose to sit the garden on the steps between…

New York-based landscape and urban design firm Balmori Associates, along with British S333 Architecture + Urbanism has been selected as finalist to develop proposals for a new master plan that will regenerate the area surrounding the Bay of Pasaia, in the Basque…

If you’re in Madrid this week, hurry to see the remaining days of the exhibition of the competition entries for Madrid’s Valdebebas Urban Park at the Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid. The exhibit will remain open to the public until October 1st at the…

Earlier this summer, the 2009 Architectural 3D Awards were presented to the winners at an awards ceremony during the Mundos Digitales conference in La Coruna, Spain. The CGarchitect.com Architectural 3D Awards were started in 2004 to recognize outstanding achievement in the field of architectural visualization. Over…

Dutch architecture firm STAR strategies + architecture has won the first prize in the international competition “Mirador del Palmeral” in Elche, Spain. The project plans to raise a big wheel like element which invites to observe the Elche palm grove from different points of…

With almost 50 entries from 16 countries, the 2009 Copper in Architecture Awards revealed an exceptional diversity of projects – many not yet published – representing some of the very best in contemporary European architecture. Copper in Architecture sponsors and organizes the biennial European Copper in Architecture Awards which recognize…

Construction work has begun on the auditorium and congress center “Paisaje telurico” in Morro Jable, in the Pájara municipality of Fuerteventura, the Canary Islands, Spain. The center, organically flowing with the rock formations near the beach, has been a 1st prize competition win for Spanish architecture practice