Tonic Design, a Raleigh, North Carolina based firm, defines a moment in the landscape of a museum's sculpture park. The pavillion, which is situated in an idlyllic setting, not only creates a comfortable space for people congregate, ideas to be exhanged, and visitors to enjoy of bit…

Virginia Tech's small house made a bold impression at the Solar Decathlon Europe in Madrid, Spain. Press Release Follows...

If an architect's intentions and restrictions could be worn on his perverbial sleeve,  then the Cabinet Home would be a good example.   Rintala Eggertsson Architects is led by the partnership between Sami, whose artistic view of architecture pertains to narrative along with conceptualism, and Dagur, who experiments with different…

STANDARD DESIGNS BAHIA MEADOWS: Senior Housing Based on Indigenous Dwellings Click above image to enlargeBirdseye Standard recently received an honorable mention from Suburban Alternatives Land Trust (SALT) and Northbay Family Homes (NFH),  sponsors of…

New York-based d3 just announced the winners of the Natural Systems competition for 2009. The program, developed by co-directors Gregory Marinic and Mary-Jo Schlachter, promotes investigation of natural systems from microscopic to universal toward determining new architectonic strategies. The competition invited architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively…

“Sustainable Personal Mobility and Mobility-on-Demand Systems (SPM/MoD)”, submitted by an interdisciplinary team of students at MIT has been selected as the winner of the prestigious 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. The team will receive a $100,000 prize at…

In 2007, eight designers were asked to submit two designs for an international competition for Zero Energy Housing, on six sites in the middle of Sentul Park in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. From sixteen designs six designs were chosen to be constructed. The project is envisaged as one of the the…

The winners for Andes Sprouts Society’s call for entries have yet to be announced (extended submission period ended February 28), but here’s a preview of some of the most exciting proposals for sustainable studio/living units at ASsociety’s meadow farmland in New…

Seven projects have been named winners of the 2009 Great Places Awards. The Great Places Awards reflect the related missions of the program’s sponsors: Places, the Environmental Design Research Association, and Metropolis magazine. Design Awards (for completed projects that demonstrate excellence as human environments) were given to: The Norwegian National…

The Coalition for Adequate School Housing (C.A.S.H.) and the California Council of the American Institute of Architects (CCAIA) honored three LPA designed K-12 schools at their annual conference for school facilities. Hector Godinez High School, Santa Ana, CA Awards of…