ThyssenKrupp Elevator, one of the world's largest elevator manufacturing companies, announced the opening and registration for the 11th edition of the prestigious Architecture Award. Held in collaboration with Dubai Municipality, this unique competition aims to foster creative, yet pragmatic new visions, for developing a tall emblem structure, within a dedicated…

EUROPE'S MOST IMPORTANT AND EMERGING YOUNG ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS NAMED AS "EUROPE 40 UNDER 40" The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design are pleased to announce the selection of this year’s most promising and emerging design talent in…

San Francisco, CA (April 18, 2008) – The American Institute of Architects, San Francisco chapter (AIA San Francisco) announces the winners of the 2008 AIA San Francisco Design Awards program. The winners were revealed and celebrated last night at a special gala held at the Terra Gallery in San Francisco's…

The Greener Gadgets Conference in New York earlier this year was mostly a pragmatic affair, with presentations from representatives of big companies and design firms and projects like One Laptop per Child. The day ended on a different note, with the results of a design competition, run in conjunction with…

Seen on Inhabitat: Calling all marine renewable energy innovators! The Scottish Government announced a new prize at the beginning of April designed to encourage world scientists to push the boundaries for new clean, power generated from the sea. The Saltire Prize is worth a cool $20 million (£10…

The World Architecture Festival Awards are now open for entry. The largest architectural awards programme in the world is open to buildings completed between 1 January 2007 and 20 June 2008. With 16 categories covering 96 building types, the awards programme is designed to showcase your latest…

Seen on Interactive Architecture.org: INTERArChTIVE has commissioned Dr Mette Ramsgard Thomsen (School of Architecture and Design, University of Brighton) and Karin Bech to develop the interactive installation Slow Furl for the Architecture 08 festival in June at Lighthouse in Brighton.…

To follow up with our story from other day, reporting on the winning team of JDS Architects and BDA in the Two Seasons Hotel competition, we bring you images of the other entries... BIG (previous…

VILNIUS, Lithuania - April 8, 2008 - A jury of six members today announced that Zaha Hadid, London, has won the architectural competition to develop a design for a proposed museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. The architectural competition is part of a feasibility study undertaken by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation…

RAIC Festival to feature 2008 RAIC Gold Medalist OTTAWA April 8, 2008 – The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2008 RAIC Gold Medal is Dan S. Hanganu, FIRAC. In choosing Mr.…

First Museum to Gain Top Ranking from US Green Building Council HEMET, CA—A Platinum LEED certification from the US Green Building Council (USGBC) has been awarded today to the Water + Life Museums, which comprise the Center for Water Education and the Western Center for Archeology and Paleontology, designed and…

a “superteam” of young talent in the city assembles to take on the design problem of sustainable affordable housing Several young Philadelphia architecture firms in cooperation with the Philadelphia Housing Authority are launching an effort to create affordable sustainable homes in the urban fabric of Philadelphia.…

International Design Competition focused on adaptive reuse along Mississippi riverfront April 7, 2008 -- New York architect Nikole Renee Bouchard has won Washington University's 2008 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design Competition. The biennial competition — sponsored by the Sam Fox…

Team members are from left to right:Yunjia Wang, master of landscape architecture, Shachi Pandey, master of city planning—team leader, Gerald D. Hines, Wei Wang, master of architecture, Tiffany Marston, master of landscape architecture, and David Anderson, master of business administration DALLAS (April…

JDS Architects and BDA win Two Seasons Hotel Competition in Stavanger, Norway (Copenhagen, April 08, 2008) JDS Architects, with Brandsberg-Dahls Arkitekter has won an invited competition for a 250 room, 8,500 square meter hotel in Stavanger, Norway Located along a busy street in…

Landscape architect James Corner unveiled plans yesterday for creating America’s largest urban park in Memphis: a 4,500-acre site, five-times the size of Manhattan’s Central Park. Corner’s firm, Field Operations, beat out Hargreaves Associates and Tom Leader Studio, the other finalists in a six-month competition to master plan Shelby Farms, a…

Nancy Somerville, American Society of Landscape Architects; Dr. Bradley Rowe, University of Michigan and the Government of the District of Columbia to be celebrated – along with other winners – at Green Roofs for Healthy Cities conference in Baltimore, MD (April 30 – May 2, 2008) Toronto, Ontario (April 3,…

Wienerberger AG, the largest producer of bricks in the world and the second largest producer of clay roof tiles in Europe, presented the “Brick Award”, offering 21,000 euros in prize money, on April 3, 2008, for the third time. Since 2004, Wienerberger has awarded the most creative brick structures in…

BSI+P Studio recognized for bridging the professions of architecture and engineering to create new ideas SAVANNAH, Ga. - The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards awarded the Savannah College of Art and Design a 2008 NCARB Prize for the Building Systems Integration and Performance Studio, BSI+P, established and led by…

Seen on Building Design: Duggan Morris Architects is to design the new Mersey Observatory in Crosby after seeing off competition from Studio 8, Phos Architects, Farrell & Clark, and Ellis Williams Architects. The RIBA competition sought a design to replace the disused radar…