Last week, we shared the third place entry Rolling Master Plan by Jägnefält Milton for the Norwegian master plan competition for the city of Åndalsnes; and the shared first prize entry, The Landscape Loop,  by JAJA. Today, we bring you the other shared…

Brookline, MA-based Jin Choi & Thomas Shine of Choi+Shine recently received the 2010 Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture Award for their "Land of Giants" project. The project was originally submitted for an Icelandic pylon competition, where it received an honorable mention.   The competition was to…

The traffic design competition announced winners of its multi-discipline design competition. The winner of the Mosque category is RUX with their entry “The Vanishing Mosque”. Winners were picked by the competition’s four judges : Alexander von Vegesack, Vitra Design Museum Dr. Sami Angawi, Amar…

Operation Hope has just been named the recipient of the Buckminster Fuller $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. Operation Hope - Permanent water and food security for…

Co-Founders Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova awarded EUR 60,000 "Self-Sufficient City" (New York City Resource & Mobility) by Terrefuge/Terreform 1 At a meeting at Roden Crater, Arizona (USA) in February, an international jury selected this year's winners of the…

The winners of Australia’s most prestigious award for excellence and innovation in urban design were announced at the Hyatt Hotel in Canberra on Tuesday, August 11. The Australia Award for Urban Design highlights the best of design in the built environment and acknowledges the critical role of good urban design…

The first Re-Inventcities competition recently announced the three winning concepts. The competition is dedicated to (re) think the basics physical and social structures of the cities on the contemporary scenario. Re-Inventcities asked to be understood as an urban-theoretical project seeking to promote the discussion about contemporary landscape…

The new Randers Museum of Art in Denmark will be a building both extrovert and introvert in nature; with reinterpreted classic Danish roots The international competition was comprised of 5 teams, including Zaha Hadid, Behnish Architekten, Coop Himmelb(l)au and entasis. In itself…

The TED Prize, designed to leverage the TED community’s exceptional array of talent and resources, has recently announced its 2009 winners. It is awarded annually to three exceptional individuals who each receive $100,000 and, much more important, the granting of “One Wish to Change the World.”…

Gensler announced the winner of the Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship competition at Contract magazine’s 30th Annual Interiors Awards Breakfast in New York City. Danae Marie Ledgerwood, a senior at Woodbury University in Whittier, California, received the $7,500 academic scholarship and a post-graduation internship with Gensler. …