New Orleans-based Billes Architecture selected some of the top design schools in North America to participate in a student competition for new home designs for the Gulf Coast of the United States. The original designs had to be contemporary, innovative, and sustainable. The entries came in on…

M2L, a NY-based furniture importer and distributor specializing in modern design, just announced the winners of its first-ever Genuine Design Scholarship. Furthering the company’s mission of promoting authenticity, M2L developed this scholarship in conjunction with Ruth Lynford, founder of NY Eleven, to educate students about knockoffs and their…

Archiprix International 2009 recently announced the winners of the world’s best architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture graduation projects. The international jury convened in Montevideo, Uruguay and reviewed 218 submissions from 66 countries, nominated 24 finalists, and selected 8 winners. The jury comprised Salvador Schelotto (Dean…

A plan drafted by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning to redevelop a site within the Denver Design District (DDD) has been selected as the winning scheme in the seventh annual ULI (Urban Land Institute) Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. The…

Trimo today announced that the winners of the Trimo Urban Crash international competition for students of architecture are Jan Ledwon and Alicja Chola from Poland. With 564 public votes (from visitors to the Trimo Urban Crash website) and a unanimous decision by the expert jury,…

Four students from Imago Dei Middle School will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., to compete in a national contest after winning the regional School of the Future Student Design Competition. Visual Arts teacher Linda Cato…

Commissioned by the global networking company Cisco to investigate how ‘connected’ the British public feel to their local communities, the ‘Urban 2020’ survey found that 87 per cent of the respondents believe that it’s the people that live there that make a community, while 64 per cent also believe it’s…

March 16 marked the beginning of voting for the best student architectural project-solution that will energize Metelkova City in Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana. Until April 6, visitors to the Trimo Urban Crash website can rate the 19 short-listed projects, selected from among all 147 submitted projects…

With 174 entries submitted from 16 different countries, the competition grew this year by 30 percent compared to the year before. Vincentz Network has once again hosted the student competition casting for new ideas in connection with the “Altenpflege+ProPflege 2009” (March 24 to 26) in Nuremberg, Germany for the sixth…

Perilous city cycling. Communicating with the deaf. Filtering contaminated water. These are a few of the issues students have tackled in the U.S. “Eye for Why”, student design competition run by the James Dyson Foundation. Beginning in 2009, “Eye for Why”, along with 20 other regional student design competitions will…