On November 17, 2008 in Naples, David Chipperfield received the Cubo d’Oro Prize. The prize is presented annually by the Annali dell’Architettura Foundation and the city of Naples in order to recognize the contribution made by architecture professionals towards the development of architecture and urban territorial planning in this region…

An international jury chaired by Chief Government Architect of The Netherlands, Liesbeth van der Pol, has selected three winners for the international architectural competition for the new International Criminal Court building in The Hague. Prize winners The winning architectural firms are:Ingenhoven Architects, Düsseldorf, GermanySchmidt Hammer Lassen / Bosch &…

The Nicolai project, carried out by Kristine Jensen in Kolding (Denmark), was recently presented with the fifth Rosa Barba European Landscape Award. The project was to transform the former Nicolai educational center (1890-1930) in the city of Kolding into a multidisciplinary cultural space to be used for activities related to…

Germany’s Behnisch, Baltimore’s Ayers/Saint/Gross Submit ‘Forward-Thinking’ Initial Concept The University of Baltimore has named Behnisch Architekten of Stuttgart, Germany, in partnership with Baltimore’s Ayers/Saint/Gross, Inc., as the winner of the international competition to design the new

New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and Paul Warwick Thompson, Director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Paul White of Transportation Alternatives announced the winners of…

Communication Design Montréal announced the Grands Prix of the third edition of the Creativity Montréal annual contest to over 500 design, architecture and communications professionals. These awards were presented in the commercial, office development and urban integration sectors. Grand Prix Winner: Michel…

The jury, presided over by Walter B. Kielholz and moderated by Prof. Carl Fingerhuth, has declared the project submitted by David Chipperfield Architects the winner of the competition to design an extension to the Kunsthaus Zürich. Winning…

It was announced last Friday at a press conference in Copenhagen, Denmark that Steven Holl Architects has won the international design competition “The LM Project”. With a program that connects office towers and civic spaces with a public walkway 65 meters above the harbor, the…

Internationally Acclaimed Architect and Chair of the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Hitoshi Abe, wins the SIA-Getz Architecture Prize for Emergent Architecture in Asia Hitoshi AbeHitoshi Abe, Chair of the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban…

Grafton Architects’ new faculty building for the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan has become the first World Building of the Year at the inaugural World Architecture Festival. Speaking at the awards ceremony, Festival director Paul Finch described the building as ‘a totally 3d piece of…