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 Hampshire Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIANH) has announced the results of its 2010-2011 High School Design Competition. Awards were distributed at the June AIA New Hampshire Chapter Meeting and Home Tour in Portsmouth, NH. The AIANH Design Competition is a program…

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…

A group of four recent graduates from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland has won the First Place in the AIAS competition for the awards pavillion of the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada. Team members were Manuel Gross, Patrik Staub, Yannick Vorberg, and…

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…

David Zhai and Alexis Burson, two students from Columbia University GSAPP, were recently selected in the New York category for their entry in this year’s d3: Housing Tomorrow Competition. Their innovative project The Ubiquitous Network, located at the Hoboken Terminal Yards, a 76 acre site straddling New York and…

Insulation specialist Saint-Gobain Isover recently selected eight projects to be shortlisted for the UK final of the Multi-Comfort House Competition. 

The University of Southern California’s School of Architecture is pleased to announce the winners of its First Annual Student Charette Competition, which is hosted by the program’s Architectural Guild. This group is the primary support system of the USC School of Architecture, and serves as…

Here are the three winning projects, as well as eight Honorable Mentions, of the International VELUX Award 2010. A South Korean team of four architecture students from Hanyang University in Seoul won first prize for their project “Constellation of light fields”. The International VELUX Award encourages…

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…