Montreal / Canada – October 16, 2008 – The winners of the second North American Holcim Awards competition for Sustainable Construction projects were announced at a ceremony in Montreal. Total prize money of USD 270,000 was presented to nine projects from Canada and the United States that…

In September, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the winners of the 2008 Student Awards. Representing the top student honors in the profession, ASLA recently presented the awards to 20 projects from 11 colleges and universities at the ASLA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. …

The competition for Copenhagen’s “Music Square” recently unveiled its winning proposal. The goal of the competition is to make Music Square a new urban landmark which can accommodate everything from music to theater to new circus, as well as everyday lounging within a cozy café-like atmosphere.

Strip malls define our streetscapes. Here, and in suburbs across the country, strip malls are a fact of life. They are the wallflowers of thousands of streetscapes that millions of people travel daily. To envision a new future for this lowly (yet overabundant) building stock, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary…

A new exhibition opens this week in San Francisco that profiles the work of today’s finest design talent. The 2008 Spark Design Awards put more than 360 entries under the microscope last month, with the best being selected by a jury of prestigious names in global design. The…

Hanover, Germany—The winners of the contractworld.award 2009 have now been selected. Following two days of consultation, a panel of leading professionals has decided which projects will be awarded the prestigious European architecture prize for interior design.  A total of 570 projects from 36 countries were competing for…

Madrid/Spain – Winners of the second European Holcim Awards competition for projects and visions in sustainable construction were announced at a ceremony in Madrid. Total prize money of $270,000 was presented to ten projects that demonstrate the latest in eco-friendly and sustainable approaches from the building…

The design contest NEUE HAMBURGER TERRASSEN has been promoted by the IBA HAMBURG (Internationale Bauausstellung) an International exhibition that will take place in 2013 with the purpose to rehabilitate the industrial district situated on the south of the river Elbe in a residential area and to integrate it to the…

Danish schmidt hammer lassen architects have just won the architecture competition to design the new DGI complex and overall master plan for Holbæk Harbour. The winning proposal includes a lyrical, contemporary interpretation of a more locally anchored, traditional building culture. It is inspired by the vision of an…

A Polish-Spanish consortium has won the competition for the new New Lublin International Airport in Poland. The program foresees a massive airport renovation and expansion with an administrative building, control tower, and a 17,345 m2 terminal. The winning…