In April this year, a partnership of AIA Newark and Suburban and the Young Architects Forum invited international designers to find innovative, visionary and compelling proposals for container constructed multi-family mixed-use project. The selected site was adjacent to…

The winners of the 34th Annual Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition have been revealed: Best in Show | Best in Category - Student Digital/Mixed Brandon Shigeta HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF…

Artists in Design, Literary, Media, Performing, and Visual Arts From Across the Country Each Receive $50,000 Award United States Artists (USA), the national artists’ advocacy organization, yesterday announced the recipients of fifty USA Fellowships for 2008 totaling $2.5 million. This marks the third consecutive year of the USA Fellows program,…

Mexico City / Mexico – October 23, 2008 – The winning projects of the second Holcim Awards competition for Sustainable Construction in Latin America were announced at a ceremony in Mexico City. Total prize money of USD 270,000 was presented to twelve projects from across the…

Transportation Alternatives announced three winners this week for “Designing the 21st Century Street,” an open design competition that challenged New Yorkers to safely accommodate pedestrians, bicyclists, transit, trucks and cars on the same “complete street” – something that has long eluded New York City street design.…

Via Building Design: Belfast-firm Hackett Hall McKnight have topped a strong shortlist to win the Young Architect of the Year 2008 award. Alastair Hall (left), Mark Hackett and Ian McKnight. (Photo via Building Design) In the…

Australian buildings pushing new boundaries – including a ‘testosterone-charged’ creative learning center in Queensland, an iconic public building in China, and a ‘determinedly avant-garde’ house in the Victorian countryside – are among major winners at this year’s top architecture awards. The Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards are Australia’s…

AIA Philadelphia celebrated the best in design by its member firms at Loews Philadelphia hotel Thursday, October 16, with the 2008 Awards for Design Excellence. Presented in Gold, Silver, Honor, and Recognition categories for both completed, unbuilt, preservation, and community design projects, the awards are given for projects in the…

The AIA/Los Angeles announced winners of the judges’ choice, as well as the people’s choice, in the 2008 Restaurant Design Awards, marking the fourth year of the AIA/LA’s much-anticipated awards program that recognizes the very best in restaurant, café, and lounge design. AIA/LA received over forty submissions in the…

It’s Day 2 at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona, Spain, and the winners of the World Architecture Festival Awards have just been announced. Previously headed by Lord Norman Foster, the international judging panels, comprised of architects, allied professionals, clients and critics, decided on the…