The Southend-on-Sea Borough Council in Essex, England announced the winner of the Southend Pier Head design contest: renowned Swedish based landscape architecture firm White arkitekter. The company - which has also won awards for other maritime architecture projects throughout the world - clinched the top place with…

British Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid has been awarded the prestigious Praemium Imperiale Award for Architecture by the Japan Art Association. “It is indeed an honor to receive this recognition from the Japan Art Association.” said Hadid. “Working in Japan has been critical to the development of my work around the…

If you’re in London these days, don’t miss out on some very cool events that the AA is hosting as part of the London Design Festival: The Architectural Association School is showcasing the work of eight award-winning architectural projects which demonstrate the…

If you’re in London this weekend, don’t miss The Termite Pavilion at Pestival, a mobile arts festival examining insect-human interactivity in bioscience, through paradigms of contemporary art, cinema, music and comedy as well as direct scientific demonstration and educational projects.

“Common Houses”, the design entry by Jude Barber and Phil Zoechbauer of Glasgow-based Collective Architecture, has recently been announced winner of the Common of Houses Competition. This British competition, open to all designers, asked to come up with creative (and sometimes…

British practice Smeeden Foreman, working in collaboration with Seven Architecture, Arup, and Davis Langdon, have won the competition to regenerate the seafront zone of Redcar, a seaside resort in England’s North East.

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) recently announced the winners of the London Bridge 800 Ideas Competition: 1st Prize – Laurie Chetwood, Chetwoods, London Laurie Chetwood, Chetwoods, London 2nd Prize – Lawrence Friesen, GenGeo, Ilona Hay, London

From dawn til dusk on Saturday, July 25, artists Heather and Ivan Morison led a crew of volunteers to build a remarkable temporary public artwork in Victoria Park in Bristol, UK. The pavilion-like timber structure, The Black Cloud, was commissioned by Situations at…

A pioneering health center in London, an imposing winery in Spain, an elegant museum in Denmark and a mixed-use scheme residential scheme contributing to the regeneration of Liverpool are among the six building projects which have made it onto this year’s shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2009 in association…

The National Stadium in Beijing - nicknamed ‘the bird’s nest’ - by Herzog & de Meuron, with the China Architectural Design and research Group, Arup Sport and Ove Arup and Partners Hong Kong, and artist Ai Wei Wei, has scooped the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) prestigious Lubetkin Prize…