Martha Schwartz Partners Ltd has won an international design competition to provide the public realm and landscape design for Henning Larsen Architects-designed Massar Children’s Discovery Centre and public park in Damascus, Syria. Massar Children’s Discovery Centre and public park in…

Floating homes, sunken pontoons and timber drawbridges are just some of the innovations presented by architects across the world in a bid to design a flood proof house for the future. The competition launched by Norwich Union, with the support of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA),…

London-based Metropolitan Workshop has won a closed competition for the new Museum of Conflict in Tripoli, Libya.  The museum will house permanent and special exhibitions on Libya’s unique history, telling the story of campaigns and conflicts that have shaped the country from colonial power to independent state.…

On November 17, 2008 in Naples, David Chipperfield received the Cubo d’Oro Prize. The prize is presented annually by the Annali dell’Architettura Foundation and the city of Naples in order to recognize the contribution made by architecture professionals towards the development of architecture and urban territorial planning in…

Via Building Design: Gough asks students to boycott contest that ‘propogates paranoia’ The organisers of a student competition to design out terrorism have been accused of contributing to a “culture of fear”. The Public Spaces, Safer Places: Designing…

The jury, presided over by Walter B. Kielholz and moderated by Prof. Carl Fingerhuth, has declared the project submitted by David Chipperfield Architects the winner of the competition to design an extension to the Kunsthaus Zürich.

The shortlist is announced for the competition to design a new mixed tenure, affordable housing development on the Greyhound Opening site in Norwich, United Kingdom. The Delivering Affordable Housing Partnership (DAHP) - a partnership of Norwich City Council, Broadland Housing & Orbit Housing Partnership, Circle Anglia Ltd, Flagship…

Via Building Design: Belfast-firm Hackett Hall McKnight have topped a strong shortlist to win the Young Architect of the Year 2008 award. Alastair Hall (left), Mark Hackett and Ian McKnight. (Photo via Building Design)…

Via Building Design: Six firms have made it onto the shortlist for the 2008 Young Architect of the Year Awards, sponsored by Autodesk. Supported by BD magazine and part of the Architect of the Year Awards, the Young Architect category aims to celebrate…

Accordia in Cambridge designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects, and Macreanor Lavington has won the 13th RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects’ Journal. The judges commented: “This is high density housing at its very best, demonstrating that volume house-builders can deliver…