Peter Zumthor (Photo: The Sankei Shimbun, ‘08)Swiss architect Peter Zumthor received the 2008 Praemium Imperiale prize offered by the Japanese emperor. The prize is awarded to artists who have earned exceptional merits for advancing of the arts. According to…

Florian Beigel and Philip Christou’s Architecture Research Unit (ARU) at London Metropolitan University is one of 3 equal winners of the Saemangeum international urban design competition in Korea. The Architecture Research Unit, under the direction of Prof. Florian Beigel, was 1 of 7 international design research teams selected…

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…

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,…

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 San Francisco office of Perkins+Will, winner of an international design competition for the project, has been retained by Singapore’s National Research Foundation to design ‘CREATE’ (Campus for Research Excellence And Technological Enterprise), a precedent-setting, 650,000 sq. ft. scientific research center to be located at the National University of Singapore’s…