People’s Choice Food Drive through Sept. 6 to determine People’s Choice Award For six hours in Pearlridge Center, Haiwaii’s largest indoor shopping center in Aiea near Honolulu, 13 teams of local architects and allied design and engineering professionals “canstructed” giant structures made entirely out of canned foods in…

Lexington, KY, August 26, 2008—An architectural firm that builds homes from sandbags in the shantytowns of Cape Town, South Africa, the young inventor of the world’s first non-turbine wind-powered generator, and an Indiana-based university professor who builds shelters using…

AUGUST, 2008, Chicago, Illinois—The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd., announce sixty-six (66) new distinguished buildings selected this year in the Museum’s prestigious “American Architecture Awards®” program for 2008. Established…

The International Concrete Design Competition for Students is a biennial ideas and design competition for students in architecture, engineering, design and affiliated disciplines. It aims at promoting innovative design attitudes related to the use of concrete as a material and a technology. It is organized…

The Architects of Mourik Challenge Prize has been awarded to Dutch Royal Academy of Fine Arts (RAFA) interior architecture student Jan Willem Terlouw. The Architects of Mourik celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2005. In that year, working with…

The Jurors of AIP 23, hosted by the American Society of Architectural Illustrators, have made their selections and the Members’ Choice voting is closed. The following is a selection of the sixty jury selected images for AIP 23… Hugh Ferriss Award: Frank M Costantino

Plasma Studio has been announced at MIPIM, the international market for the property industry, as the winner of the 2008 Next Generation Architects / Pipers Award. Following in the footsteps of previous winners, Jamie Fobert Architects, FAT and…

The Royal Institute of British Architects is delighted to announce that a shortlist of seven designs for the River Douglas Crossing near Preston in Lancashire has been chosen by an expert judging panel. The international design competition attracted an outstanding response, with 110 designs received worldwide. Entries were received from…

In 2007, Swiss bag maker FREITAG invited designers, illustrators and anyone with a pen to participate in the first FREITAG Design-A-Truck Contest. The topic: «Transit». Over 3’000 contenders from 70 countries all over the world signed up. But like Christopher Lambert said: «There can be only one!» The…

The sprawling Beijing Olympic Village won its own gold medal today for going green. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson presented Chinese officials with the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold award during a short ceremony, saying the 160-acre Olympic Village could serve as a future prototype…

Via denverpost.com: Students from the University of Colorado Denver College of Architecture and Planning have won four of the top five awards in the U.S. Green Building Council’s Natural Talent Design Competition for the Western Region.…

Firms Bringing Event to Life Include: SOM, IDEO, SMWM, BCV Architects, ROMA Design, Marta Fry Landscape, David Baker + Partners, CCS Architecture, Natoma Architects Leaders in the Bay Area’s architecture and design worlds have stepped to the plate to design the inaugural edition of

(Brussels, August 13, 2008) JDS Architects is short-listed as the youngest one of five offices in what turns out to be a OMA three tier generation competition. The planning competition launched last April for the restructuring of the…

The international competition for a New Urban Streetscape in Beijing, China was organized by New World China Land Limited – one of Asia’s largest development corporations – in collaboration with Di Magazine, a leading architectural review published in Beijing.  The designated site area divides New World’s recently built commercial center,…

An important step in the restoration of the Spencer Dock Sea Lock took place with the installation of new outer, tidal lock gates some weeks ago.  The redevelopment project will see the creation of a six-hectare public green area in the North Lotts area and are a further step in…

The Glenelg Tramline Extension has been awarded this year’s prestigious Adelaide Prize for the achievement of excellence and innovation in the city’s public realm. An extension of the existing tramline service from Victoria Square to the City West…

Nick Hollibaugh and Joshua Enck with a model of their sculpture proposal.A model of Canter and Shed is on display now at the Blackstone Valley Visitors Center in Pawtucket.…

Via Turkish Daily News: The Zorlu Group has begun the final stages of a competition among architecture firms for the building of the Zorlu Center, to be built on the Highway Field in Istanbul, which the group purchased for $800 million in a March…

On November 13th the prize-giving ceremony will take place in Mendrisio, to award the CHF 100,000 offered by the BSI Architectural Foundation, with the support of the Federal Office for Culture in Bern and the Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio. On 17 September 2008, the winner of the…

The Housing Design Awards recently announced a list of five winning projects. The awards are promoted by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the National House-Building Council, the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Royal Town Planning Institute. Awards were made at two stages: for projects of high…