Chicago architecture firm Goettsch Partners has designed the flagship commercial development for UAE-based Al Hilal Bank in the heart of Abu Dhabi’s Al Maryah Island, formerly known as Sowwah Island.

Los Angeles-based Ehrlich Architects have been awarded the grand prize in the international architectural competition to design the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) Federal National Council’s (FNC) New Parliament Building Complex. Fourteen firms representing nine countries had been invited in early 2010 to submit entries in Phase…

The energy-generating public art installation Lunar Cubit has won the First Prize at the 2010 Land Art Generator Design Competition. Lunar Cubit illuminates in an inversely proportional relationship to the lunar cycle so that the work becomes most fully lit during the night of a new moon.…

In the Traffic Design Competition Vol. 2 - Design as Reform, the design proposal MOSQUE IS MORE by Brusselssprout was selected as Finalist in the Mosque Category. The international competition, organized by Dubai-based art and design organization

The result of the student competition ‘Urban Exchange: The Souk’ was recently announced at a reception held at the British Embassy in Abu Dhabi, capital of the UAE. The announcement coincided with the formal launch of the new Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Gulf…

German-Australian practice Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) recently won the first prize in the Masdar Eco City Center Competition for Masdar, United Arab Emirates. LAVA already succeeded in the first stage of the competition earlier this year, and collaborated with Kann Finch Group,…

In April 2008, 2A Magazine launched “Du(b)ailities: Supra_global_culture / micro_ethnic_localities”, an international architectural competition for students and young architects. Participants were allowed to submit in either one of two or both categories: Category A: Supra_global_culture – large-scale visions Category B: Micro-ethnic-localities…

New York-based Asymptote Architecture nears completion of The Yas Hotel project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Yas Hotel is a 500-room, 85,000-square-meter complex now under construction by Aldar Properties PJSC. Asymptote was awarded the commission to design the buildings and environs from a closed competition two years…

As many of our readers know, the winners were recently announced for the ThyssenKrupp Elevator Award 2008-09, and the results have proven to be quite controversial.  Winning projects -

Agence France-Museums, in partnership with Abu Dhabi’s Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), announced that the firm of Nathalie Crinière has been selected to create the exhibition design for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, one of the five major institutions being planned for Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island Cultural District. Nathalie Crinière…