Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has published the shortlist of the design contest for a sound barrier, to be built west of Runway 18R-36L (Polderbaan). The barrier must present an innovative solution for the complex problem of ground noise in Hoofddorp-Noord produced by aircraft taking off…

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR THE DESIGN OF THE KAPTOL, ZAGREB (CROATIA) RESULTS In March 2008, the CITY OF ZAGREB launched a public, single stage, open, international ideas competition for the design of the Kaptol in Zagreb (Croatia) and invited all architects, urban planners or landscape architects…

CityRacks is a competition that seeks to find new solutions for NYC’s bike locking/parking fixtures.  The deadline for entries was June 9th. Competition Brief | Previously in the News Andrew Lang and Harry Dobbs …

Tate Director, Nicholas Serota, and leading architect Jacques Herzog of Herzog & de Meuron, today revealed the revised plans for the new development of Tate Modern. In response to a revised brief and consultation with artists and curators, the architects have refined designs to create a dramatic…

Via Daily Journal of Commerce Oregon: ‘Webisodes’ reveal what designers were thinking when crafting entries for Oregon’s Integrating Habitats competition When Jason King heard about Metro’s Integrating Habitats…

Wakefield based company Beam are delighted to announce the winner of their international design competition - Mobile! Threefold Architects in collaboration with the Jason Bruges Studios emerged triumphant against fierce competition from other shortlisted practices, Atmos Studio Ltd and Cottrell and Vermeulen.

Visitors of the Droog website have chosen ‘Droog Aalto’, a vase design by Jan Čtvrtník, with 32% of all votes as the winning proposal for the Climate Competition. Designer Rachel Hevic reached up to the second-favourite with her proposal of ‘Large red switch’ (23%…

Students from Five Countries Capture Awards for Innovation and Sustainability SAN FRANCISCO, Jul. 16, 2008—Autodesk, Inc. announced the winners of the Build Something Student Design Challenge, a design contest created to encourage the next generation of design professionals from around…

An Australian architect and team working with indigenous communities across the nation and offshore have been awarded an international architecture award for their ‘efforts to alleviate poverty’. Paul PholerosHealthabitat Pty Ltd, directed by architect Paul Pholeros,…

World’s most influential environmental spokesman to address architects, builders, innovators, and policy-makers at nation’s premier green building and business conference Al GoreSan Jose, CA — July 16, 2008 — West Coast Green announced today that Nobel…

The Irish Architecture Awards, which travel to approximately 20 venues around Ireland and to London, are intended to communicate the range, variety and quality of the Architects work in any one year. Here is a list of this year’s winning projects: Best Accessible Project: ABK Architects for the…

The Australian Institute of Architects will announce the 2008 New South Wales Architecture Awards at a special ceremony in Sydney on Saturday 19 July 2008. Awards being presented include those for public architecture, sustainable architecture, urban design, residential architecture (houses and multiple housing), commercial architecture, small project architecture,…

Via Baltimore Sun University of Baltimore President Robert L. Bogomolny has $150,000 for the competition. (Photo: Elizabeth Malby/Baltimore Sun) Israeli-born architect Moshe Safdie hasn’t designed a project for Baltimore since he designed…

The architectural competition for the new master plan of the business school Vienna announced a winner: BUSarchitektur & architect Laura P. Spinadel, Vienna. Architects were invited to submit their designs for the realization of the new Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien…

SHANGHAI – JIA Shanghai, the city’s first design-led boutique residence, scooped ‘Best Hotel Design of the Year’ award in the annual Interior Design China (IDC) Hospitality Design Awards. JIA Shanghai won the top prize for overall Best Hotel Design. The competition also included five other categories for the…

The Royal Institute of Dutch Architects (BNA) has awarded cepezed architects with the BNA Cube 2008 for its complete body of work. The BNA Cube is the highest decoration of the institute and is presented for exceptional merits within Dutch architecture.

Washington, D.C., July 2, 2008 — The American Institute of Architect’s (AIA) Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge Community, in conjunction with the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), recognized four recipients of the 2008 AIA/HUD Secretary Awards. The award recognizes excellence in…

Casa Kike, a private house in Cahuita, Costa Rica by Gianni Botsford Architects has scooped the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) prestigious Lubetkin Prize, sponsored by Mercedes-Benz (UK) Ltd and supported by The Architectural Review, for the most outstanding work of architecture outside the…

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) National and International Awards for architectural excellence were presented on 27 June in London. The twenty six RIBA Award winners (16 in the UK and 10 in the EU) range from an Alpine cable railway to Wembley National Stadium, from a…

Danish architects 3XN were announced winners of the competition on the new Denmark’s Aquarium, ‘The Blue Planet’, planned to open 2013. Inspired by the whirl streams of the sea, shoals of fish, and swirling starlings turning the sky black, 3XNs winning proposal is called ‘Whirlpool’. Indeed, from…