Historic Hotel Wins 7th Annual CINTAS contest CINCINNATI, OH, August 27, 2008 – The finest restroom in America is in the five-star Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee - says the Internet public who cast online ballots in the 7th annual “America’s Best Restroom” contest presented by Cincinnati-based Cintas…

People’s Choice Food Drive through Sept. 6 to determine People’s Choice Award For six hours in Pearlridge Center, Haiwaii’s largest indoor shopping center in Aiea near Honolulu, 13 teams of local architects and allied design and engineering professionals “canstructed” giant structures made entirely out of canned foods in…

Lexington, KY, August 26, 2008—An architectural firm that builds homes from sandbags in the shantytowns of Cape Town, South Africa, the young inventor of the world’s first non-turbine wind-powered generator, and an Indiana-based university professor who builds shelters using…

AUGUST, 2008, Chicago, Illinois—The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd., announce sixty-six (66) new distinguished buildings selected this year in the Museum’s prestigious “American Architecture Awards®” program for 2008. Established…

The Jurors of AIP 23, hosted by the American Society of Architectural Illustrators, have made their selections and the Members’ Choice voting is closed. The following is a selection of the sixty jury selected images for AIP 23… Hugh Ferriss Award: Frank M Costantino

Nick Hollibaugh and Joshua Enck with a model of their sculpture proposal.A model of Canter and Shed is on display now at the Blackstone Valley Visitors Center in Pawtucket.…

Three architecture firms will begin their own road to Omaha after having been selected in June by Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey to design the new Omaha Baseball Stadium, the future home for the College World Series. Led by Omaha-based HDR, Inc. as architects and engineers of…

An Awareness Campaign for the Millennium Development Goals New York, NY - DESIGN 21: Social Design Network, a joint-venture project founded by Felissimo and UNESCO to inspire and promote design for the greater good, is proud to announce…

The National Building Museum will present the Tenth Vincent Scully Prize to Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture and founder and senior partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, at a gala celebration on November 12, 2008. David Schwarz, chairman of the Prize jury, said Stern was…

Kyu Sung WooSEOUL, KOREA—Architect Kyu Sung Woo has been named the winner of the 2008 Ho-Am Prize in the Arts. The Ho-Am Prize in the Arts recognizes Koreans who have made outstanding contributions to the promotion of culture…